The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 9, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 17, 1875 Page: 2 of 4
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FKKE POST AGE.
Over tlic Range.
Half sleeping, by the fire I sit—
I start and wake, it is so strange
To Hnii myself alone, and Tom
Across the Range.
We brought him in with heavy feet
And eased birn down; from eye to eye.
Though no one spoke, there passed a tear
That Tom must die.
He rallied when the sun was low,
And spoke, I thought the words -were
strange:
It's almost night, and I must go
Across the Range."
What, Tom J" He smiled and nodded, "Yes,
They've struck it rich there. Jim,you know
The parson told us you'd come soon—
Now Tom must go."
I brought his sweetheart's pictured face ;
Again that smile, so sad and strange,
"Tell her," saie he. that Tom has gone
Across the Range."
The last night lingered on the hill;
" There's a pass somewhere," then he said,
And lip and eye and hand were still;
And Tom was dead.
Half sleeping, by the Are I sit—
I start and wake, it is so strange
To llnd myself alone, and Tom
Across the Range.
We beg to state that postage will be paid at
hia oflice, free, on all editions of the News
sent to Subscribers, under the New Law to
take effect on tho 1st of January, 1875.
tikmit by 1) ha itt, post office money obobb
ok Reoistkhkd Letter.
Address RICHARDSON, BELO & CO.,
Galveston, Texas.
Sunday?January 17, 1875.
SCPKK.YIE COl'RT DECISIONS.
The New* has mado an arrangement for
the publication of a complete abstract of tho
decisions of the Supreme Court of Texas at
the Oalveston session. The decisions will be
sfnopslzed and publishod in tho or dor in
which they are delivered from tho Bonch, by
Major B. H. Bamett, of the law firm of Sayles
A Bassett, of this city, whose competency for
the task will bo recognized by all who know
his abilities as a lawyer, and, we doubt not,
by all who may examine intelligently his con'
dor.aod reports. This arrangement is ex-
pected to be of value to the legal fraternity
thioughout tho State, who will thus be fur-
nished with much valuable professional in
formation in a condensed and systematic
form.
—
Thk annual report of the Wool Ex-
change gives the product of wool in
California for 1874 at nearly forty mil-
lion pounds, a large increase over any
previous year.
The National Council of the Sov-
ereigns of Industry opened its second
annual session at Philadelphia on Jan-
uary 12th. Reports of the President,
Secretary, Treasurer and Executive
Committee were read. The President s
report shows that the Order is located
in twenty States, with a membership
of 100,000.
The communication headed " Our
Public Free Schools," is written by a
gentleman thoroughly acquainted with
the condition and value of the school
lands belonging to this county, and
the laws governing the same. His
suggestions are worthy of considera-
tion, both by the friends of education
in our midst and our delegation in the
Legislature.
On Wednesday three teams, in
charge of four men, were seen crossing
the ice from the Iowa to the Nebraska
side of the Missouri river. When
about half way across the horses,
wagons and men suddenly disappeared.
They immediately sank and were swept
down by the rapid current. It has not
been ascertained who the unfortunate
men were. It is supposed they must
have driven over a place from which
ice had been recently cut and which
had only frozen over lightly.
An envious Chicago editor is indig-
nant because "the editor of two pa-
pers, both daily," John W. Forney,
"received the lion's share in the Pa-
cific Mail distribution—$25,000." The
press should, perhaps, rather be proud,
in these bad times when every man is
supposed to have his price, to find that
an editor not noted in a long career for
stability, consistency, or unsuspected
fidelity to principle, should be worth
double as much as an average member
of Congress.
The National association of the sur-
viving veterans of the war between the
United States and Mexico have been
endeavoring, for the past year, to get
a complete list of all American soldiers
who were engaged in that contest. The
number of names, with evidence en
titling them to registration, is 2549,
and the number where the evidence is
incomplete lUfifi. Among the latter
are 20 from Austin, and 16 from Bon
ham, Texas. The entire number re
ported from this State does not appear.
Tiie cold in the Northwest is terri
ble. Many cases of freezing to death
are reported. A man, wife and two
small children, while driving in
wagon west of Hutchinson on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road
last Friday, were frozen to death. The
horse carried the corpses to a house on
the road. Many hunters and cattle
men have had their limbs frozen, re
quiring amputation. Four teams were
carried away by a snow slide in the
Little Cottonwood canon, Utah. The
men escaped, but one mule team was
buried. The teams were from the
Flagstaff mine.
The best arguments that can be
found by the advocates of the Texas
and Pacific railway subsidy, in Con
gresa, are such as the following, which
came among the news by telegraph:
Eight engines are laid up at Buffalo
station, on the Kansas Pacific railway
A Gambler King.
A Graphic Pen Picture of San Fran-
CISCO'S lUoit Notorious Gam-
bler, James Hons.
Kansas Pacific
350 miles west of Leavenworth. The
snow storm is still raping, and there has
been no through train since Thursday.
There has been quite a number of snow
slides in Big and Little Cottonwood can-
ons within the past few days. The An-
nie Tunnel House was carried away, and
Jas. Cox, John Trenberth, James (.Hanson
and James llenfrey were killed. Know
has fallen deeply within the last few
days, and all the Union Pacific trains are
delayed.
Galveston's Late Guests.
The party of twenty-six business
men and capitalists, representing trade
interests of a number of thriving
Western towns, who visited Galveston
last week, returned by way of St.
Louis, where their presence caused a
sensation in business circles. The pa-
pers give lists of their names, the va-
rious localities represented by them,
f.nd describe the objects of their visit.
The following extract from the liepub-
liean will show the spirit in which
they were received at St. Louis:
The main cause of this movement is
fonnd in the fact that Iowa is growing a
large surplus of natural products, espe-
cially grain, which can only find a mar
ket at the seaboard. Council Bluffs has
six railroads continually sending in train
loads of cereals which Council Bluffs
don't know what to do with. In case the
grasshopers neglect to visit Nebraska
and Kannas next year a number of towns
in those counties expect to be similarly
inundated with grain and they seek an
opening to the Gulf as a profitable mar-
ket for their produce. Of course freight
is what takes the profit from the Western
man's labor. Oalveston is 500 miles
nearer the growers than New York, and
they can therefore save time and money
by shipping to the South.
The party came direct from Houston
to this city by the International and Iron
Mountain roads, arriving in the forenoon
They had a meeting in parlor No. 18 at
the LindeJl yesterday afternoon, in which
tliey passed resolutions complimentary to
themselves and others. They dined at
five, and departed for home last night via
the Kanras City and Northern line. They
declare that their trip has been quite suc-
cessful, and say that the Chicago eleva-
tors will L>e idle and empty next season.
[From the San Francisco Chronicle.]
Slim Jim is not the John Oakhurst of
pioneer California literature. It is prob-
ably not in his composition to press
chivalrous devotion to sueh an extreme
of loyalty that he would die with per
sons whom he could not save. Very like
ly he would never be able to pass in his
checks with that lofty politeness some-
times achieved by great principals—not-
ably those of frontier fiction. It can not
even be said he is like the John Cham
berlin of fact, who hangs on the verge of
society with an ease and grace born of
thorough knowledge of the world and its
shadiest paths. John Chamberlin has
met on terms of temporary equality with
the most polished—perhaps not the best
gentlemen of the time in the great cities
of the East. Slim Jim is from Texas, a
State in which
morality shades itself off into vice
with easier gradations, and the two some
times become mixed and indeterminate
at the edges, where society, outside the
towns and villages, is as yet unfinished.
No good comes of painting the devil
worse than he is. Our forefathers did
that, and what is the result? A world
full of bright men of extreme rational
istic views, and a strong tendency to
atheism. There are, of course, men, and
men; gamblers, and gamblers; else why
have we such portraits as John Oakhurst
painted with the vivid hues of Titian
and a literalness almost pre-KaphaeJite
Slim Jim never scuttled a ship nor cut a
throat, nor, after the style of the Italian
brigand of to-day, has he sent the nose or
ears of an unhappy prisoner to his wife
with the intimation that unless 10,000
scudi were forthcoming, she would speed
ily receive the remainder of her liege
lord on a platter, sliced as thin as a tur-
key at a hotel dinner. To say that virtue
lias not gradations is not depreciatory of
virtue; and to say that vice is in degrees
is not palliative of vice. Nor does it
follow that these presents are an excuse
for
the three-card monte business,
any more than that the tale of Poker
Flat excuses gambling, or that the good
heart of Nancy Sykes is an apology for
prostitution. When a man cries,
Hands off ; I submitit is time to let
up ; and when a man like Slim Jim, who
has lived a life that no moralist can com-
mend, says: " I am going to forsake
my questionable courses and follow
some legitimate business," the public
will certainly be glad to see him turn
from evil, and will not, of course, stand
in the way of the promised reformation.
It was something in this manner that
the writer pondered when looking for
Slim Jim two or three days since. Every-
body knows that that man is the most
notorious three-card monte player of the
time. Everybody except the victims
knows how that little game is played,
and where it has been most successfully
carried on.
The laws of Nevada license what are
called banking games, and forbid no
other. The three-card monte men claim
for their " trick game " legal immunity
with the Test, and they practice it, or
have been some months practicing it, on
the cars and in the saloons at the stations
of the Central Pacific Rrilroad. The
more aristociatic monte men have only
worked" the passenger trains. The
less scrupulous liavtf made their chief
winnings from the emigrants.
The reporter did not look for Slim Jim
in the palaces of the city. He found him
retired and not courting observation in
a small saloon not many squares from
the Occidental Hotel. The sporting gen-
tleman, whose occupation is for the pres-
ent gone, sat in a small back room, lean-
ing on a table, hardly cheerful, but still
somewhat encouraged by the prosperous
issue of a recent lawsuit. His attire was
not remarkable for extreme neatness or
shabbiness. His face, which was small
and heavily bearded,was discharged of ex-
pression and similarly negative. Only
a furtive glance now and then from his
rather small eyes showed that there was
considerable intelligence lurking some
where in his brain. Unfortunately for
this story, he did not use the broken
English from which the frontier romance
has derived its most piquant flavor. For
all that, his visitor could discern the
beauties of the Washoe dialect were to
him as the Hindostanee tongue or as
Egyptian hieroglyph. When addressed,
he raised his head from seemingly bot-
tomless depths of chinchilla coat-collar,
and replied to the effect that his news
paper notoriety was ample for all prac-
tical purposes, and he did not care to
extend it. Upon being pressed, he sus-
tained part in a colloquy which ran much
after the following manner. After lis
tening to a series of complaints regard-
ing the persecution to which he had been
subjected by the Central Pacific Itailroad
Company, stimulated to virtuous efforts
by the slanders of the Pacific Mail Steam-
ship Company, the reporter asked him:
" How long is it since you have played
on the trains of the Central Pacific Rail-
road f
" I have not played a card for the last
two months, and they all know it."
" Have you ever been arrested or been
in any difficulty growing out of your
monte games before the recent arrest by
the United States authorities ?"
" I never have. I have never even had
personal trouble with any one from
whom I have won money during several
years experience on a good many rail-
roads and in a good many States. The
whole excitement has been caused by
the railroad detectives, who want to get
their names up and are working in a
lively style for their own interests.
There is a great difference in the men
who have been practicing the game. A
few fellows up there in Nevada, who
have abused passengers, have given the
detectives an advantage which has been
used to the utmost. Persons who lose
never express any dissatisfaction so long
as the bets have been legitimate. If a
man don't choose to bet his money I don't
choose to win it. It is at their own op
tion entirely, and it is to be supposed
that every sober man knows what he is
doing'!"
The questioner asked : " Is it true that
money is won from passengers when
drunK V
The reply was; " I have never seen a
drunken passenger betting on the three
card game. I never would play with one
who was in that condition. In fact, a
drunken man is not likely to bet at all.
If a victim is intoxicated he could not
see the advantage which he thinks he
has over an unsophisticated miner, who
has plenty of money, but apparently not
sense enough to take care of it."
" You consider, then, that a portion of
the guilt, if there is any guilt, attaches
to the man who is called the ' victim?'
" Of course I do. The victim goes in
neatly on the face when he turns the
card up, changing in an instant a deuce
into a tray, or a four-spot into a five-spot."
I can assure you that there is noth-
ing of that kind done. In fact, the com-
mon cards are never used now. We use
trick cards made for the purpoBe, I will
show you the cards and how the thing is
done, if you care to see."
how it is done.
The reporter, not being in the position
of a victim, was very glad to see. Slim
Jim reached his hand into the inside
of his chinchilla, and drew therefrom a
dozen cards below the regulation size—
small bits of pasteboard, nearly square,
and adorned on the faces principally
with spots, but also with clumsy, clown-
ish figures of girls, men and old womeo.
" Well, here are the pictures," said Slim
Jim, selecting three of the cards and
throwing them face down, side by side,
on the table. " They usually bot on the
old woman. Just look here (passing the
cards over one another dexterously.)
Here is the old woman with one corner
turned up." The flat sees it, and would
bet his bottom dollar that he can pick it
up. Perhaps he bets on it and wins.
Perhaps the capper bets on it and wins.
That makes the flat more confident, ai)d
he is ready to bet again. The chances
next time mayn't be so good. [Here fol
lowed another rapid shifting of the
three cards.] Can you pick up the old
woman? Ha! ha! You see that ain't
it. Turned that corner while shifting
them. Here's the old woman (picking
up a card with corner smoothed out, a
little blackened by a dirty thumb.) Now
you understand how it is done. We
change the looks of the card iu manipu-
lating it. Sometimes this way (showing
a longitudinal crease ;) sometimes so (ex
hibiting a lateral crease, complicated by
a compound fracture.) It all depends on
the skill ol the monte man, you know.
If he is awkward, he loses ; if he is quick
and active, he wins. But it ain't a sure
thing anyway. It can't be. No man can
put a spot on the cards the way you say
He would be detected at it."
8lim J [m as ye honest miner.
" What has been your usual disguise
when working the trains ?"
" I have always represented myself as
a miner. When I got on the trains in
Nevada going East I had always made
my * pile' and was going home; and
when I was coming this way, I was just
coming to have a good time at 'Frisco
before I left for the East. I would al-
ways have my pockets full of money,
and was always green and innocent, and
acted as if I did not know how to take
care of it. Then I roped the people in
in various ways by the aid of my cap-
pers, and the greenies would flock around
me sure to win. Oood people would come
to me and tell me I wasn't fit to have any
money, and I had better give it to the
conductor to take care of, or put it in the
express en. I don't think I have been
verv unmerciful to men I have fleeced
If they came to me and said that was all
the money they had, or that they were
ruined and had families, and all that
sort of thing, I always let them have
some of the money back, if it amounted
to anything at all."
" What class of men have been princi-
pally the victims of the three-card monte
sharps?"
"Oh, men of all classes and profes
sions—lawyers, doctors, preachers and
clergymen. But preachers are the best
game I think. I don't know why, ex
actly, but they bite well. Several have
lost money on the overland trains, and
some of them have made a fuss about it,
when ;t was all their own faul+. I have
now up in Nevada a watch that I won
from an Oregon preacher who was going
on a tour of Europe with money fur-
nished by his congregation. It is covered
all over with expressions of the tender
love and good-will of liis flock."
as a european tourist.
" I understand you have been to Eu-
rope."
Yes, and I have just returned ; got
back last August."
" What places did you visit ?"
" Oh, I went to England and about on
the continent; viBited Baden Baden, Mo-
naco and other places. At Baden Baden
gambling still goes on, though privately,
in spite of the government prohibition.
But the stakes played for are too high
for any small fry like me. There is
little gambling in Paris, and three-card
monte is not a good game to be played on
continental roads. I played it, however,
and successfully too, on all the great
roads in England—London and Liver-
pool, Midland and Northern. I should
have staid there if I had not known how
things were going here."
*' Have nny of the three-card monte men
made money at the business ?"
" Some of them have and some of them
haven't. They win and lose, have thou-
sands of dollars one day and nothing the
next. That's the way it goes with them.
Canada Bill is the richest of them all.
He is worth $150,000, which he has in-
vested in real estate in Chicago, Omaha
and other places. He owns several small
hotels in both these cities. But he did
not make his money in the three-card
monte business. Most of it he won at
banking games."
biographical.
The conversation ended with some ac-
count of the life of Slim Jim, or James
Ross, aB he may as well be called. He
said that he was thirty-seven years old.
He had lived most of his life at San An-
tone, and had attended school there.
Upon his scarf was a pretty school so-
ciety badge with the lone star, a reminis-
cence of his days of innocence. Ever
since he had arrived at manhood he had
played gambling games, but those things
are not looked at as so very bad in Texas.
He had heen away from his native State
for five years, and in that time had been
ail over the world playing three-card
monte. He had made some money, and
was soon going East to engage in some
legitimate business. He did think it was
about time for them to let up on him
They had accused him, any way, of
thousand things he had never been guilty
of. He followed the reporter to the
door, and left him with the injunction
that he hoped he would go it " light on
him." So the two parted.
The End.
Whose steps are those? who comes so late? |
" Let me come in: the door unlock."
'Tis midnight now; my lonely gate
I open to no stranger's knock.
"Who art thou? Speak! *\Men call me Fame;
To immortality I lead.''
Pass, idle phantom of a name.
" Listen again, and now take heed:
'Twas false. My names are Love and Yruth!
TXT I Ql . J V. I .14 1 ~ n m nn/1 fmin "
Has {ong since laughec
The Prince of Punsters*
Why, God himself is young and true,
Pass by; the girl I thought all truth
" i her last adieu.
Stay, stay; my name are Song and Art.
My poet, now unbar the door/'
Love's dead. Song can not touch my heart,
My girl's pet name no more.
" Open then now: for see, I stand,
Riches my name—with gold—with gold—
Gold and your girl in either haml.11
Too late, the past you still withhold.
44 Tbeu it must be, since the d#or
Stand6 shut till first my name you know,
Men call me Death. Delay no more;
I bring the cure of every woe."
'Tis Death ? Ah! guest so pale and wan,
Forgive the poor place where I dwell;
An ice-cold hearth, a broken man.
Stand here a welcome thee to tell.
Welcome at last; take me away;
Wither thou goest let me go;
Only permit my dog to stay.
That even for me some tears may How.
The Surrender.
General lee's Account of the Move-
ments Around Appomattox Court*
House.
Theodore Hook has, by common con-
sent, been placed at the head of modern
wits. He had not as much real wit as
Sydney Smith, or James Smith, or Tom
Hill, or Douglas Jeriold, but he was the
first of mimics, an improvisatore, and a
punster. Many a good pun of his has
been handed down to us, and many a bad
one too. He once said that a glazier was
a pains taking man. Again, a bailiff has
a very taking manner; and a gentleman
pouring tea from a pot into cups to be
like a milliner—because he is a man-tea-
maker. All pretty far-fetched witticisms.
For impudence he was unsurpassed.
Once, seeing a superb old gentleman,
who was the the incarnation of pom-
pous self complacency, walking along
the Strand, he walked up to him and
said with a most courteous bow, " I beg
your pardon, sir, but pray, may I ask,
are you anybody in particular'!" and
passed on. But this is nothing when
compared to the assurance with which
he would enter the house of a stranger
and dine with him. This faculty came
in well when he was too hard up pecu-
niary to pay for a meal, not a very in-
frequent circumstance with him. In this
respect he reminds us very much of Tom
Hill, who was famous for knowing ev-
erybody's business better than they did
themselves, and for examining their
kitchens, about the hour of dinner, and
selecting his host according to the odor
of the viands.
Hook and Terry, the actor, were one
afternoon passing a house in the neigh-
borhood of Soho Square, it is said, when
[From Reminiscences by Rev. J. W. Jones.]
Mr. Jones publishes for the first time „„„„
the following letter^, in which General | ^ey paiffec[ the odor of viands cooking
, a underground. Hook immediately caught
The moneyless Man.
Is there no p'ace on the face of the earth
Where charity dwelleth, where virtue has
birth ?
Where bo oms In kindness and mercy will
heave.
Andjhe poor and the wretched shall ask and
receive ?
Is there no place on earth whjre a knock from
the poor
Will bring a kind angel to open the door ?
Ah ! search the wide world wherever you can,
There is no open door for the moneyless man.
•
Go look In the hall where the chandelier light
Drives off with its splendor the darkness of
night;
Where the rich hanging velvet, in shadowy
fold.
Sweeps gracefully down, with its trimming of
gold,
And mirrors of silver take up and renew
In long lighted vistas the 'wildering view :
Go there in your pat ches, and find if you can
A welcoming smile f»r the moneyless man.
Go look in your church of the oloud-reaohing
spire,
Which gives back to the sun his same look of
fire,
Where the arches and columns are gorgeous
within,
And the walls seem as pure as a soul without
sin ;
Go down the long aisle—see the rich and the
great,
In the pomp and the pride of their worldly
estate
Walk down in your patches, and find if you
can,
Who opens a pew for a moneyless man.
Go look to your judges, in dark flowing gown,
With the scales wherein law weigheth quietly |
down;
Where ho frowns on the weak and smiles on ]
the strong,
And punishes right, while he justifies wrong;
Where jurors their lips on the Bible have laid,
To render a verdict they've already made:
Go there in the courtroom, and find if you can,
Any law for the case of a moneyless man.
DIED:
LAVELLE— On Saturday morning, Francis,
aged three years, eldest son of Francis La-
j velle, Sr.
The funeral will take place, from No. 61
Strand, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty- |
i seventh streets, this SUNDAY, at 3 p. m.
Friends and relatives are invited to attend.
New Advertisements.
KING MOMUS.
HEADQUARTERS K. O. M.
January 16th, 1875.
Regularity brings Vigor.
Local irregularities produce weakness of j
the entire system. In order, therefore, to re-
establish health and strength upon a sure ba-
sis, these irregularies must be permanently
overcome. Many persons endeavor to reform
them by remedies which address themselves
merely to the symptoms without affecting the
cause. If such individuals were to use instead
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters they would !
speedily appreciate the difference between a
medicine which palliates, and one which en-
tirely removes physical disability. That prime
regulator of bodily disturbances restores the
derelict organs to an uninterrupted and
healthy performance of their various duties,
whereby alone the system can recover its lost i
tone and vigor. Hostetter's Bitters are a
tonic medicine, but they are a tonic which
regulates ere they strengthen the system.
ja!5 fri an we&Wlt
Special Notices.
Attention, Lone Star
Rifles.—You are hereby or-
dered to assemble at the Ar-
mory on TUESDAY", JAN.
19th, at 1:45 o'clock P. M„
sharp, for annual parade, and
to receive the flag to be pre-
sented by the Veteran Sur-
vivors of Company L, First
Texas Regiment, Hood's Bri-
gade. Proa.pt and full at-
tendance will be exacted.
N. WEEKES, Captain.
jal7 2t
Bv order
|W. M. Jkrdoxs, O. S.
Lee communicated to Mr. Davis the de-
tails of his closing operations with, the
Army of Northern Virginia, and the par-
ticulars of his surrender at Appomattox :
Near Appomattox Couet House, Va., (
April is, 1805. j
His Excellency Jefferson Davis :
Mr. President—It is with pain that I
announce to your Excellency the surren-
der of the army of Northern Virginia.
the
at the idea suggested by Terry, that he
should like to make one of so jovial a
party, and, arranging with his friend
that he should call for him there at ten
o'clock, ran up the steps, gave a brisk
rap at the knocker, and was at once ad-
mitted and entered the drawing-room.
The room being filled, he mingled with
tho company, and before the host discov-
banks, where Mammon has
and
starving
Go look in
told
His hundreds and thousands of silver
Bold;
Where, safe from the hands of tho
and poor.
Lies pile upon pile of the glittering ore;
Walk up to the counter—ah, there you may
stay
Till your limbs have grown old and your hair
turns gray, 4
And you'll find at the bank not one of the clan
With money to lend to the moneylesj man.
The operations which preceded this re- I ore(j tjje ,)regence of the stranger, he had
suit will be reported in full. i will, | maja lumBolf perfectly at home, and
won his way to the hearts of a knot of |
her
" Little Bo-Pcep" and the Dying
Child.
[Cassell's Magazine.]
I remember, when I was nursing in a
hospital once, there was a poor little boy
about six years old dying of rheumatic
fever. I was night nurse in that ward,
and Tegularlv, when the attack of pain
came on, he used to scream out for me
" Nursey, sing, it hurts me. Sing the
hurt away."
So then I'd prop him up on my arm an'
sing one song after another, from "Twin
kle, Twinkle, Little Star," to " Black-Eyed
Susan," till the paroxysm of pain was
over, an' he'd quiet down again. I always
knew when that was by his joinin' his
voice in too—such a weak pipe of a voice,
poor lamb ! But I was better glad to hear
it than any music, -for it telled me the
pain was gone for a while, an' I could lie
him down to sleep again.
Poor we mite ! I was singing " Little
Bo-Beep " the night he died. I had him
in my arms. He'd been sinking all day
I knew he couldn't last out another ; 'an
though he tried to join in as usual, his
voice went into a gasp 'an broke. I'd
been sometimes used to call the children
in the ward my little sheep, an' when I
came to the end of the verse—
Little Bo-Peep, she lost her sheep,
An' doesn't know where to And 'em:
Let 'em alone, an' they'll come home,
An' bring their tails behind 'em—
he looked up in my face with a bit of a
smile on his poor little drawn white
mouth, and said;
" Nursey'11 know where to find her
lickle sheep when he goes home. Will
I be long going home now, nursey ?"
Long! Ah, poor lamb I ten minutes
later an' he'd gone home.
The learned counsel who are " doing'
... , , - the great scandal before Chief Justice
to win the money of this man, whom he Neilson are marked men, intellectually
thinks foolish and unsophisticated, and | and physically. Each has his own ™
he will have it if he can get it. He is a
gambler just as much as the monte man,
but one of the kind who will never bet
except on what he considers a sure thing.
He is positive that he knows the card
that will win,either by the corners being
turned up or by some other mark on the
back of it. What sympathy does such a
man deserve when he loses ? None at
all, I should think. He thinks—he al-
most knows—that he is going to win,
while I can not tell half the time whether
I shall win or lose."
" How is that 1 Do you mean to say
that you are not sure of winning in every
case 1"
" Of course I am not. The man who
beti is liable to get hold of the right
card. It is always there, and a smart
fellow may pick it up if he is quick-
sighted enough. It depends principally
on the inonte man's skill in manipulating
the cards and little tricks he has of
changing the outside appearance of the
face card on which the betting is usually
done."
a thick tiiat is never practiced.
" I have been told that no person can
ever win in betting on three-card monte ;
that the monte sharp has means of chang-
ing the face of the card to suit h's pur-
poses at the moment he shows it to his
victim. For instance, that he has a spot
on the end of his finger which he sticks
physically. Each has his own pe-
culiar style, and a good deal of it. Evarts
suggests the shadowy Georgian, Alex H.
Stephens, and would make a good model
for a hatchet; Tracy looks like a hard-
shell Presbyterian, close-cropped fo:
fisticuff encounter with the Evil One
Pryor, tall, swarthy and straight-haired
is a man whose great-grandfather
might have been nursed by Pocahontas ;
Shearman, sharp and wiry, is just the
person whom a party of hunters would
set to watch a raccoon hole; Fullerton
lias a bundled-up look, and his cheeks
are too clost" to his clavicle to display a
shirt-collar to advantage, while Morris
the genus loci of the group, is what he is
and more too. They are all wiser in
their grneration than the children of
light, but you wouldn't select any of
them to boss a picnic excursion.
A story is told of a negro in Virginia
whose master threatened to give him
J^gg'og if he boiled his eggs hard again.
morning the eggs came to the table
■till harder than before.
i ou rascal ! " shouted the enraged
planter, " didn't I tell you to cook these
eggs soft
njassa," said the frightened
slave, " an' I got up at two o'clock dis
mornin an biled them five hours, an' it
seem to me I never kin get deso eggs
softer,"
therefore, only now state that upon ar
rival at Amelia Courthouse on the morn-
ing of the 4th with the advance of the
army, on the retreat from the lines in
front of Richmond and Petersburg, and
not finding the supplies ordered to be
placed there, nearly twenty-four hours
were lost in endeavoring to collect in the
country subsistence for men and horses.
This delay was fatal, and could not be
retrieved. The troops, wearied by con-
tinued fighting and marching for several
days and nights, obtained neither rest
nor refreshments, and on moving on the
5th, on the Richmond and Danville rail-
road, I found at Jetersville the enemy's
cavalry, and learned the approach of his
infantry and the general advance of his
army toward Burkeville. This deprived
us of the use of the railroad, and ren-
dered it impracticable to procure from
Danville the supplies ordered to meet us
at points of our march. Nothing could
be obtained from the adjacent country.
Our route to the Roanoke was therefore
changed, and the march directed from
Farmville, where supplies were ordered
from Lynchburg. The change of route
threw the troops over the road pursued
by the artillery and wagon trains west of
the railroad, which impeded our advance
and embarrassed our movements.
On the morning of the 6th Gen. Long-
street's corps reached Rice's Station, on
the Lynchburg Railroad. It was fol-
lowed by the commands of Generals R.
E. Anderson, Ewell and Gordon, with
orders to close upon it as fast as the pro-
gress of the trains would permit, or as
they would be directed, on roads further
west. General Anderson, commanding
Pickett's and B. R. Johnson's divisions,
became disconnected with Mahone's di-
vision forming the rear of Longstreet.
The enemy's cavalry penetrated the line
of march through the interval thus left,
and attacked the wagon train moving to-
ward Farmville. This caused serious
delay in the march of the center and rear
of the column, and enabled the enemy to
mass upon their fiank. After successive
attacks, Anderson and EweU's corps were
captured or driven from their position.
The latter general, with both of his di-
vision commanders, Kershaw and Custis
Lee, and his brigadiers, were taken, pris-
oners.
Gordon, who all the morning, aided by
Gen. W. F. Lee's cavalry, had checked
the advance of the enemy on the road
from Amelia Springs, and protected the
trains, bacame exposed to his combined
assaults, which he bravely resisted and
twice repulsed ; but the cavalry having
been withdrawn to another part of the
line of march, and the enemy massing
heavily on his front and flanks, renewed
the attack about night, and drove him
from the field in much confusion. The
army continued Its march during the
night, and every effort was made to re-
organize the divisions, which had been
shattered by the day's operations ; but
the men being depressed by fatigue and
hunger, many threw away their arms,
while others followed the wagon trains
and embarrassed their progress. On the
morning of the 7th rations were issued
to the troops as they passed Farmville,
but the safety of The trains requiring
their removal upon the approach of the
enemy, all could not be supplied.
The army, reduced to two corps, under
Longstreet and Gordon, moved steadily
on the road to Appomattox Courthouse,
thence its march was ordered by Camp-
bell Courthouse, through Pittsylvania
toward Danville. The roads were
wretched and the progress slow. By
great efforts the head of the column
reached Appomattox Courthousa on the
evening of the 8th, and the troops were
halted for rest. The march was ordered
to be resumed at 1 a. m. on the 9th. Fitz
Lee with the cavalry, supported by Gor-
don, was ordered to drive the enemy from
his front, wheel to the left and cover the
passage of the trains, while Longstreet,
who, from Rice's station, had formed the
rear guard, should close up and hold the
position. Two battalions of artillery
and the ammunition wagons were di-
rected to follow the army ; the rest of the
artillery and wagons to move toward
Lynchburg. In the early part of the
night the enemy attacked Walker's
artillery train near Appomattox station
on the Lynchburg Railroad, and were re-
pelled.
Shortly afterward their cavalry dashed
toward the courthouse, till halted by our
line. During the night there were indi-
cations of a large force massing on our
left front. Fitz Lee was directed to
ascertain its strength, and to suspend his
advance till daylight if necessary. About
5 A. M. on the 9th, with Gordon on his
left, he moved forward and opened the
way. A heavy force of the enemy was
discovered opposite Gordon's right,
which, moving in the direction of Appo-
mattox Courthouse, drove back the left
of the cavalry and threatened to cut off
Gordon from Longstreet, his cavalry at
the same time threatening to envelop his
left fiank. Gordon withdrew across the
Appomattox river, and the cavalry ad-
vanced on the Lynchburg road and be-
came separated from the army. Learn-
ing the condition of affairs on the lines
where I had gone, under the expectation
of meeting Gen. Grant, to learn definitely
the terms he proposed in a. communica-
tion received from him on the 8th, in the
event of the surrender of the army, I re-
quested a suspension of hostilities until
these terms could be arranged. In the
interview which occurred with Gen.
Grant, in compliance with my request,
terms having been agreed on, I surren-
dered that portion of the Army of North-
ern Virginia which was on the field, with
its arms, artillery and wagon trains, the
officers and men to be paroled, retaining
their side-arms and private offects.
I deemed this course the best under
all the circumstances by which we were
surrounded. On the morning of the 9th,
according to the reports of the ordnance
officers, there were 7892 organized in-
fantry with arms, with an average of 75
rounds of ammunition per man. The ar-
tillery, though reduced to 03 pieces, with
93 rounds of ammunition, was sufficient.
These comprised all the supplies of ord-
nance that could be relied on in the State
of Virginia. I have no accurate report
of the cavalry, but believe it did not ex-
ceed 2400 effective men. The enemy was
more than five times our number. If we
could have .forcid our way one day
longer, it would have been at a great
sacrifice of life, and at its end I did not
see how a surrender could have been
avoided. We had no subsistence for man
or horse, and it could not be gathered in
the country. The supplies ordered to
Pamplin's Station from Lynchburg could
not reach me, and the men, deprived of
food and sleep for many days, were worn
out and exhausted.
With great rcspect, your obedient
servant, R* E. Lee, General.
guests by his sallies of drollery. The
master of the house approached him and
begged his name, as he felt quite at a
loss. " Smith " was the name Hook gave,
and hurried off into a good story, so as
to put his host in good humor. At last
an explanation came out, that he had
mistaken both the house and the hour at
which ho ought to have dined with a
friend. The old gentleman's civility could
not then allow him to depart, as his
friend's table must long be cleared.
Hook professed great reluctance to tres-
pass on the hospitality of a perfect stran-
ger, and was induced, seemingly with
great difficulty, to remain and partake of
the dinner. Such a delightful companion,
and a fellow so droll and full of mirth
and jollity, had never till then enlivened
the mansion. As usual, he lost no oppor-
tunity to display his abilities, and later
in the evening he amused his new-
made friends with extemporaneous songs,
for the composition of which, under
all circumstances, he was famous. One
of Hook's best hoaxes was on the occa-
sion of finding himself in a hackney
coach without the means of paying his
fare. His purse was empty, and there
was not a copper at home ; in this dilem-
ma a happy mode of eluding payment
suggested itself to him. He remembered
that an eminent surgeon lived in the
neighborhood. He ordered the coachman
to drive to his hous.i and knock violently
at the door. When it was opened, Hook
rushed in and in an agitated manner de-
manded to see the doctor, whom in a few
wild and incoherent sentences he gave to
understand that his wife was on the point
of becoming a mother, and required his
services immediately. " I will start di-
rectly," said the surgeon ; " I will order
my carriage at once." " Don't wait for
your carriage,"cried the pseudo-distressed
parent, " get into mine, which is waiting
at the door." The surgeon complied, was
hurried into the coach and was conveyed
to the address he had received, the resi-
dence of an aged spinster of the most
rigid virtue, whose indignation and horror
at the object of his visit were beyond all
bounds. The poor mac, who was glad to
beat a hasty retreat, followed by some
cooking utensils and a broomstick, was
compelled to pay the full fare, while Hook
walked leisurely home.
The subject of our sketch began to
write very early, and at twenty may be
said to have achieved a great reputation
as a dramatist, a wit and a novelist.
Mi.tth»ws had appeared in his farces,
and Liston in his comedies. Sheridan
roared at his recitations, and Colman the
younger laughed with envious approba-
tion at his puns. He was pet of the
green-room; pretty actresses were not
slow to show that they were enamored of
the handsome " boy author," and would
have their bouquets handed to them by
nobody but Theodore. Here was a dan-
gerous commencement in life for a young
man. Is it to be wondered at that he
was spoiled, and became a prodigal and
spendthrift 1 •
An effort was made by his brother
James, who was rising in the church, to
remove him from this atmosphere of
frivolty and dissipation, and Theodore
was entered a student at Oxford ; but he
carried his spirit of fun and frolic with
him. When the Vice Chancellor in-
quired whether he was prepared to sign
the thirty-nine articles, " Oh, yes, sir,"
he briskly replied, " quite ready; forty,
if you please! " This untimely jocular-
ity well-nigh cut off his university ca-
reer. The very evening after he was
admitted a member of the university, he
contrived to slip away, and joined a
noisy party of school-fellows at a tavern.
The entertainment in the course of the
evening became so uprorious that one of
the proctors found it necessary to break
into the apartment and see what was
going on.
" Pray, sir, are you a member of this
university ?" inquired the academical
magistrate, going up to Hook, who was
acting as host.
" No, sir," was the cool reply ; " are
you 'i"
" Sir!" retorted the irate proctor, hold-
ing up his sleeves of office to observation.
" You see this?"
Hook gazed earnestly for a few seconds
at the texture of the fabric, and then,
with business-like gravity, remarked;
Exactly—Manchester velvet; and may
Then go to your hovel—no raven has fed
The wife who has suffered so long for
broad;
Kneel down by her pallet and kiss tho death
frost
From the lips of the angel your poverty lost-
Then tnrnin your agony upward to God,
And bless while it smites you, the chastening
rod;
And you'll find at the endof your life's little
span.
There's a welcome above f»r the moneyless
man.
A chunk of a boy was seen studying
free weather report charts hanging in
the Postoffice yesterday, and, wondering
at the lad's interest a gentleman ap-
proached him and asked: "Well, my
son, what do you wish to find?" " I'm
looking to see how the old tliermom
stands at Duluth," said the boy;*'if
she's ten below I must dust for home and
split more wood, if she's at zero I can go
off with Bill Jackson to see his dog fight
a tame coon."—Detroit Free rress.
Mrs. Arthur Orton will not pay bills
which are not addressed " Lady Tich-
borne." Dr. " Ken-all-y " must be at the
bottom of this.
I take the liberty of inquiring how much
you might have paid per yard for this
article ?"
Hook did not remain at college long.
He could not bear the slightest restric-
tions of university discipline, and after a
short residence there he quitted alma
mater.
It was subsequent to his college career
that he first made his appearance as a
novelist. The fiction was called " Alfred
A tepdalelater, he brought out " Max-
wen," " The Parson's Daughter," " Love
and Pride," "Jack Brag," " Sayings and
Doings," and after his death " PeregTine
Bunce" appeared. He was a hard worker;
despite his being a society man—for he
all his life exerted himself to shine in
that sphere—he performed an almost in-
calculable amount of literary labor. Be-
sides performing the duties of editor of
a weekly paper—The John Bull—he pro
duced thirty-eight volumes in a little
over sixteen years.
Taken altogether he was a remarkable
man, an excellent and voluminous writer,
whose knowledge of London life was
only surpassed by Fielding and Dickens;
yet he left behind him no great creation,
and he is principally remembered to-day
as a wit, a punster, and a hoaxer.
a Beautiful Answer.
When the Emperor of Germany was
lately on a visit in a distant portion of
his dominions, he was welcomed by the
school children of the village. After
their speaker had made a speech for
them, he thanked them. Then, taking
an orange from a plate, asked:
" To what kingdom does this belong ?"
" To the vegetable kingdom, sire," re-
plied the little girl.
The Emperor took a gold coin from
his pocket, and holding it up, asked :
" And to what kingdom does this be-
long 1"
" To the mineral kingdom, sire," re-
plied the little girl.
" And to what kingdom do I belong,
then ?" asked the Emperor.
The little girl colored deeply, for she
did not like to say '* the animal king-
dom," as he thought she would, lest his
Majesty should be offended, when a
bright thought came, and she said, with
radiant eyes:
" To God's kingdom, sire."
The Emperor was deeply moved. A
tear stood in his eye. He placed his
hand on the child's head and said, most
devoutly:
" Grant that I may be accounted wor-
thy of that kingdom.
ti Terrible McW a'ers "
One by One Quantrell's Men Fall
by the waysida—a Record of Dev-
iltry Which Reads Like a Ro-
mance.
[From Nebraska City Correspondence of the
Chicago Times.]
Our District Court has just adjourned,
and the notorious desperado, William
McWatera, has been sentenced to twenty-
one years hard labor in the Lincoln Pen-
itentiary, and the ponderous gates have
hidden the criminal from the world in
which he regarded human life no more
than a sportsman does a prairie chicken.
He was young in years, but graduated
early among the bushwackers of Mis-
souri, and is known from Nebraska to
Oregon as the terrible McWaters—a liv-
ing personification of just such charac-
ters as figure in dime novels and fill up
the measure of glory in saloon literature-
His history will be written and go down
to posterity with that of John A. Murrill
and other disturbers of society, and the
long night of prison penance will only
throw a deeper interest around his fate.
William McWaters was born in Platte
county. Mo., the year after the great
flood, 1844. His mother was a Kentucky
woman of superior character. But we
know nothing of his early days till at the
molding age of twelve years he followed
the pro slavery raiders over in Kansas
and learned to love b'ood and hate the
abolitionists at Osawatomie and other
skirmishes. Iu these pursuits he was a
kind of free rover for two years.
Soon after the rebellion broke out he
joined a company of the boys who burnt
the Platte bridge and precipitated a Han-
nibal and St. Joe railroad train into an
awful chasm, killing many of the passen-
gers,because Federal soldiers were among
them. Then he enlisted with Jim Gid-
dins's band, and fought under Price for
six months. On coming back home to Bee
Creek he found the family residence
burnt, his father and brother killed by
the militia, and the rest of the family
driven off in banishment. So he asso-
ciated himself with Bill Anderson, John
and Fletch Taylor, and other desperate
bushwhackers, who resolved to sacrifice
a hundred lives for one, in revenge; and
did pick off Captain Cheeseman and
thirty or forty of his men, who wers
quartered in the neighborhood. But the
rising glory of Quantrell drew them over
into Kansas again, where McWaters
found congenial work in the sacking
and burning of Lawrence.
Quantrell afterward carried his free-
booters into Arkansas, and there they
fell out among themselves about a
woman; and the sanguinary Bill Ander-
son drew away from Quantrell, and raid-
ed back through Northern Missouri like
a flame of fire over the prairies, carrying
young McWaters in his train, who had
many adventures more strange than fic-
tion, and was assisted out of many hair-
breadth escapes by a fair heroine named
Jennie Mavfield.
At the close of the war we find Mc-
Waters keeping a saloon in Platte City,
where he shot a man, and his friend
John Taylor was shot by the police. He
then escaped to St. Joe, which was seeth-
ing with desperadoes from all parts,
where his other friend, Fletch Taylor,
was shot dead by the police, and Mc-
Waters, in return, shot the policeman.
By the aid of confederates, he got out
of Missouri and came to Wyoming, in
this county, where a romantic attachment
sprang up between him and a beautiful
young lady, who was to have married
his friend Fletch Taylor, and he was the
groomsman, and they were on their way
up when the affray took place in St. Joe,
which ended the career of Fletch Taylor.
Miss Susie Davis wedded McWaters, and
through thick and thin has idolized her
husband—the one bright picture in this
narrative.
Two years ago, McWaters shot Dr.
Wolfe dead in a row in Wyoming, and
soon after, his brother-in-law, Woodson,
shot Barlow dead, and is now serving a
Notice. -Office of the Ualreiton Real Es-
tate and Loan Company, Galveston, Jan. 16,
1875.—Sealed bids will be received by the
Secretary for the NINTH LOAN, for home-
stead purposes, of an amount not exceeding
$■£00, for a term of six years, or less. All
bids must state the amonnts wanted and on
what time, aad must be handed in by 8 p. M.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30, at which time the Di-
rectory will meet and award loan to the high-
est bidder, payable February 10. Applicants
are requested to be present. By order of the
Finance Committee.
I. LOVENBERU,
jalS 2t Secretary.
Notlee—A sermon will be preaohed by
Catharine Schertz oil "The Ingathering of
Israel for the redemption of Spirit. Soul and
Body to enter into Life Eternal," on SUN-
DAT next about 3 o'clock, p. K., at the hall
over the Ice House. jal6 2t
Notice.-—The annual meeting of the
Stockholders of the Oalveston. Houston and
Henderson Railroad Company, of 1871, will be
held at the office of the Company, in Galves-
ton, TUESDAY, January 86.1875, at 12 o'clock,
noon. JACOB E. FISHER, Secretary.
Galveston, Jan. 9,1875. jalO lit
Galveston Gas Company, Jan. 7, 1875.
a Meeting of Stockholders in this
Company will be held, at the office of the Sec-
retary, on MONDAY, 18th January inst., at 11
o'clock a. m., to emtertaln and decide upon
Cmital
anft
the question of subscribing te the
Stock of the Gulf, Colorado and riant Fe
Railroad Company. By order of the Board of
Directors. J. FREDERICK,
ja8 td Secretary.
Notice.—The Stockholders of the Agricul-
tural, Horticultural' and Industrial Associa-
tion are requested to meet at the office of C.
W. Hurley A Co., at 12 o'clook neon, on WED-
NESDAY. January 20, 1875, for the purpose of
electing thirteen Directors. By order of tl
President, C. L. BEISSNER, JR., Sec'y.
ja9 lOt
Notice to Conslenees.—The schooner
E. S. POTTER, Potter, Master, from
New York, is discharging cargo, subject to
general average, at Lutklns's Wharf. Con-
signees will please call at this office, sign
the average bond, deposit tea (10) per cent, of
the amount of their invoice, pay frieght
bills, and receive; delivery order for their
goods. M. QUIN & CO., Agents.
jal6 3t
January.
Schenck's Pulmonic Syrcp, Ska Weed Tonic,
and Mandrake Pills.
These deservedly celebrated and popular
medicines have effected a revolution in the
healing art, and proved the fallacy of several
maxims which have for many years obstruct-
ed the progress of medical science. The
false supposition that " consumption is incur
able" deterred physicians from attempting to
liud remedies for that disease, and patients
afflicted with it reconciled themselves to
death without making an effort to escape from
a doom which they supposed to be unavoida-
ble. It is now proved, however, that Consump-
tion can he Cured and that it has been cured in
a very great number of cases (some of them ap-
parently desperate ones) by Schenck's Pulmo-
nio Syrup alone, and in other cases by the
same medicine in connection with Schenck's
Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or
both, according to the requirements of the
case.
Dr. Schenck himself, who enjoyed uninter
rupted good health for more than forty years,
was supposed, at one time, to be at the very
gate of death, his physicians having pro-
nounced bis case hopeless, and abandoned
him to his fate. He was cured by the afore-
said medicines, and, since his recovery, many
thousands similarly affected have used Dr.
Schenck's preparations with the same re-
markable success.
Full directions accompany each, making it
not absolutely necessary to personally see Dr.
Schenck unless patients wish their lungs ex-
amined, and Tor this purpose he is profession-
ally at his principal office, corner Sixth and
Arch streets, Philadelphia, every Monday,
where all letters for advice must be ad-
dressed. Schenck's medicines are sold by all
druggists.
janl '75 we fr&su lm
1059th Yiar of Our Reiqn— 99th Year of
our Independence—39th Year of Texan In-
dependence.
Special Orders, i.
The following Special Obder< are issued, to
whom it may concern, upon the occasion of
the entrance of KING MOMUS into the Capi-
tal City of our Realm,
On Tuesday, 9lh day of February,
Anno Domini 1875, Anno Regni 1059, Anno Am.
Ind. E9th, Anno Texan Ind. 39lh.
Par. I. The Galveston Rowing Club will as-
semble at their Renilezvvun, in front of the
city, at 9 a. m., and will have all arrangements
perfected to commence the Regatta at 10 a.
M., sharp.
Pa*. II. The Washington Rowing Club will
hold the Royal Barge Lizzik McKirnon, sub-
ject to tha orders of His Serene Majesty, for
the purpose of witnessing the Royal Regatta,
In front of the city, at OX A. *•> promptly.
Par. III. His Serene Majesty King Momus will
review the Galveston Artillery, the Wash
inoton Guards, the Lone Star Riflbs, the
Galveston Jahs Turn Verbin, the Galveston
Fi?e Department, the Butchers' Phalanx,
and all other Military, Civil and Social
Organizations of the city of Galveston, and
elsewhere in his realm (the New West), be-
tween the Mississippi river and ths Pacific
Ocean, including the Sandwich Islands and
the Island of Otaheile, on the Esplanade on
Broadway, west of Tremont, at 12:30 p. m.
Commanders will report promptly to Prime
Minister Israfel, in accordance with this or-
der, and make their arrangements accord-
ingly.
Par. IT. It Is the wish of his Serene
Majesty that the different companies named
in Par. Ill shall muster their members in
number, without reference to armament,
decoration or display, that he may judge of
their efficiency In time of peace and war.
Par. ▼. The Royal Knights of his Serene Ma-
jesty shall convene at such place and time as
shall be hereafter specially designated, to
participate in the Royal proccssum, to be had
In honor of the Royal Entrance of His Serene
Majesty Kins Momus unto the Capital of His
Happy Realm on this felicitous occasion.
Par. VI. Our liege subject, the Mayor of
Our Capital City, will order the Chief of Po-
lice to he ob duty with his full force daring
the entire day and night, that our liege sub
jects may have protection, and His Serene
Majesty may reoeive no harm.
Par. VII. The Royal Procession »hall
emerge from the Royal Mansion on Broad
way, and proceed along the following Line of
March:
From Broadway, between Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-third.
Thence along Tremont to Market.
Thence along Market to Twenty-fifth street.
Thance aloag Twenty-fifth to Strand.
Thence along Strand to Twenty-first.
Thenoe along Twenty-first to Mechanic.
Thenca along Mechanic to Tremont.
Thence along Tremont to Market.
Thence along Market to Twentieth street.
Thence along Twentieth to Postoffice.
Thence along Postoffice to Tremont.
Thence along Tremont to Opera Houae.
Par. YIII. All liege subjects along tha line
of march are ordered to illuminate their cas-
tles, and otherwise ornament them, to add to
the felicity and splendor of the occasion.
Par. IX. All liege subjects of his Serene
Majesty, from the Mississippi river to the
Pacific ocean, and all strangers and visitors,
from home and foreign conntries, from Dan
to Beersheba, are ordered to do honsr to the
entrance of his Serene Majesty into his capi-
tal city, nnder the penalty of being banished
forever from the presence.
By order of Mighty Momus :
ISRAFEL,
jal7 till fe9 Prime Minister.
New Advertisements.
=IN ST0KE.=
600 Sacks COFFEE
Ex Brig "TARPEIAN."
Aud to arrive from Rio de Janeiro
3700 Sacks COFFEE
Per Brig HENRIETTA.
For sale by
KOPPEUL.
H) ARRIVE TO ARRIVE.
4000 Sacks Coffee.
Per (ierman brii>
Vi.
Steenken,
FlCOn KIO DE JANEIRO.
j&5 una tf
RANGER & CO.
-IN STOltE.
2000 Sks. Coffee.
to akrive
3500 Sks. Coffee.
10, 12, 14 and 10 Strand,
de26 3m
J. H. ELS WORTH Jc CO.
BRINLY PLOW.
H. HIRSCH & CO.,
Agents for Factory,
STRAND, UALVESTON.
dell tf una
GROCERIES AT COST.
To Close Business.
J. L. McKEEN,
162, 10 1 and 16G Strand.
CARD A CARD
A
T\Tew Advertisements.
GOLD! GOLD! GOOM
An addition to youp estate of
$1000 gold!
Annually increasing during life, will
cost
each day:
Age 25— 5% cent8.
Age 28— 6 eeuts.
Age 30— 6$£ cents.
Age 33— 6% cents.
Age 35— 7i£ cents.
Age 37— 7% cents.
Age 39— 8# cents.
Age 41— 8% cents.
Age 42— 9^ cents.
Age 44—10 cents.
Age 46—10^ cents.
Age 48—11^ cents.
Age 50—13 cents.
Age 52—14 cents.
Age 53—14X cents.
Age 55— 16j£ cents.
Age 56—173j cents.
Age 57—18ji cents.
Age 58—19 cents.
Age 59—20 cents.
Who so poor that oannot afford a policy of
$1000 t Who can afford to live without it f
ALA. GOLD LIFE INSURANCE CO.
J. S. BYINGTON, Special Agent, Galveston.
jal7 tf una
s
ILYER PLATED WARE
—at the—
JEWELRY BAZAR
ml. w. shaw & bro.,
Consisting of Fine Water Pitchers, Castors,
Toast Racks, Toilet Sets, Pickle Dishes, But-
ter Dishes, Cups, Goblets, Waiters, Cream
and Sugar Bowls, Fireman's Trumpet, Flower
Tases, Coffee and Water Urns, Cake Baskets,
Card Receivers, and a fine stock of Bar Fix-
tures. Call and see our stock before pur-
chasing elsewhere. jal7 tf
Proclamation
by the mighty momus.
Edict v.
To all to whom thess pr»s*nts shall como.
Greeting:
Enow ya that, inasmuch as His Most Gra-
cious Majesty, King Momus, proposes visiting
this, his Imperial Capital, on Mardl Gras, the
9th day of February, 18T5, it is hereby or-
dained and decreed:
1. That the owners or managers of all rail-
way, steamboat, and other lines of transport-
ation extending throughout tha Royal Do-
main, immediately cause to be promulgated
a tariff of fares at one-half rate,
good from the 5th to the 15th of
February, inclusive, for the benefit
•f all loyal subjects who may desire ty?
participate in the festivities ineident to this
most auspicious event.
a. That in consideration of ready and im-
plicit obedience to this, our Royal Mandate,
each andj every loyal subject is h.reby ab-
solved from all service or allegiance to any
other power than that of His Most Blessed
Majesty; and all other semblances or forms of
government now existing, in anywise con-
flicting therewith, either civil or military,
State or National, whether de jure or dc facto,
are hereby abrogated and abolished.
God save the King I
Given under our hand and seal, at the Capi
tal, this, the 1st day of January, A. D. 1875,
and the one thousand and fifty-ninth of our
reign.
By the King himself. MOMUS.
Attest:
Israfel, Prime Minister.
jal7 tofe9
The undersigned, having formed s connec-
tion with the firm of HALFF, WEIS & CO.,
will be pleased to meet his friendu and ac-
quaintances at the corner of Tremont and
Strand streets. DAVID CAHN,
jal4 lmuna Late with C. E. Broussard & Co.
Notices.
^"OTICE NOTICE
BERING & McNEIL have made an assign-
ment to the undersigned of all their stocks,
accounts, etc., for the benefit of their credit-
ors. Parties indebted to them are hereby no-
tified to make nopaymemts except to persons
authorized by me to receire the same. They
are further notified that they must make im-
mediate payment of all their said indebted-
ness. Parties having claims against the said
firm will present the same and accept tho
terms of said assignment.
OLIVER STEELE,
Assignee of
jal2 lw BERING & McNEIL,
^TTENTION FIREMEN.
THE ANNUAL ELECTION
of
Cliicf Euginecr aucl Tliree As-
sistants
For Fire Department of Galveston will be
held at the hall of Star State Engine Com-
pany, No. 3, on the
Third Monday of January, 1S75,
Being the 18th, at 7:30 P. M.
LOUIS FALKENTIIAL,
de29-td Chief Engineer G. F. D.
DENTER & RIO GRANDE RAILWAY
and thk distributing point for
Central and Southern Colorado,
Offers, on account of its salubrious climate
and commercial importance, special induce
^ments to those seeking homes in the West.
For map«, pamphlets, etc., apply to
^TESTERN BANK NOTE
ENGRAVING COMPANY,
Steele Plate and Lithographic
PRINTE RS,
Fifth and Locust St*., St. LonU, Mo
DRAFTS, CHECKS, BONDS, and all kinds
of work executed in the best manner.
jal7tfeb23
A Detroit father purchased a tool-
chest for his son, a lad of eight, who
seemed to have considerable mechanical
genius. Up to the latest accounts the
boy has sawed off but two table-!egs,
six knobs from the bureau, bor d seven
holes through the door and three through
the piano-case, and, by the aid of the
glue-pot, stuck the family supply of nap-
kins firmly t»the parlor carpet.
TnE letters of Lord Chesterfield have
been translated into Guzerathi by a Par-
see lady, and published at Bombay. Poor
Chesterfield.
term in the penitentiary for it. Mc-
Waters was cleared. But about a year
afterward, John Cook and he shot and
killed an innocent man in Dold's saloon
in this city. They were caught and shut
up in an iron cage, where it seemed they
were very safe for trial. But one even-
ing, when the guards were shifting them,
they managed to steal their arms, and at
the pistol's mouth drove the guard into
the cage, locked them in and escaped on
horses, which had been placed outside by
friends.
In the Indian Nation these men sepa-
rated in bad blood, and McWaters, for
whom a large reward was offered, was
again caught in Hays City, Kansas. But
while the Sheriff's posse was making
the prison safe for him, he executed the
old maneuver and suddenly shut six of
them inside, while he escaped on the
Sheriff's horse.
He then made his way northward
among the Black Foot Indians, and shot
one of them dead over a bottle of whisky,
and has his blankets yet, with the bullet
holes, he running the gauntlet of the
whole tribe.
We next hear of McWaters at the lit-
tle town of Spaita, in Baker county, Ore-
gon, where he visited some relatives, and
had a famous needle gun, which he car-
ried, and by which he murdered a man
named George Weed, with whom he had
a quarrel in a gambling house. The man
had gone off some distance, but had on a
soldier's blue coat, and McWaters could
not resist the temptation of letting fly a
charge at his brass buttons, shooting him
in the back, and escaping to Sacramento
City with a new reward of a thousand
dollars offered for his arrest.
But all this time Sheriff Farbar, of Ne-
braska City, who smarted for his official
I honors, had detectives on his track ; and
Tom Tippet, who once lived here in the I T>ARGAINS BARGAINS
Seymour bouse with Mr. McWaters, | Jt> HAKOALNB
spotted his lurking places; and he was
| suddenly pinioned by the officers of the
law and brought back to Nebraska City.
The result has been told. He has a
dozen scars on his person and bullet-
holes in his body, and a dozen times has
escaped from prison, and his rollicking I
stories would fill a book. He is thor-
ougely educated in deeds of violence,
and never talks about anything else with
relish but " getting the drop " on some
one. He rides likes a Comanche, and is
cool and wily as Modoc Jack. His clear
eye never glows except with the excite-
ment of an affray. He has a fine figure
and might have been a gentleman—an
Aubrey or a Kit Carson. But a man
who always goes around with pistols to
hunt up a fight is no longer desirable in
Nebraska society; and Judpe Gantt has
the praise of all parties in banishing him
to a living grave.
The scene when his devoted wife and
two pretty children were torn away from
him, and he was ironed for the peniten-
tiary, was such as the hardest hearts
could not contemplate, and even the offi-
cers of the court shed tears. McWaters
himself completely broke down ; and the
spirits of his many gory victims must
have tortured his memory like " the
worm that never diesand the voice of
condemnation thundered in his ears.
" The way of the transgressor is hard."
BROWN & LANG
Wholesale Hardware merchants,
Strand and Mechanic Streets,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
We hare in store the largest stock of HARD-
WARE ever offered to the trade of Texas,
which we hare reduced in price to meet the
exigencies ef the times.
Interior merchants will find it greatly to
their advantage, when iu quest of goods in
our line, to examine our extensive establish-
ment, with its immense stook and low prices,
before purchasing elsewhere. jal
For Bargains in Furniture
Call at FORT GLUE POT, the Cheap Cash
Furniture Store.
WILL F. HOWE,
Corporal Commanding.
jal7It
JPOR SALE FOR SALE.
MY RESIDENCE,
Corner of AVENUE O and TWENTY-SECOND
STREET, comprising Three and One-Half
Lots of Ground. Best improved. On easy
JOHN W. LANG.
ja!7 lw una
B'
FURNITURE, STOVES, APPLES, LIQUORS,
TOBACCO, CIGARS, CLOTHING.
ETC., AT AUCTION.
Y BLAKELT & PRINCE—
Aactloneers—116 and 118 Strand.—Will
sell MONDAY, 18th inst., at 10 •'clock A. u.
Bedsteads, Marble-Top Bureaus, Marble-Top
Washstand, Tables, Armoirs, Black Wal-
nut Chairs, Rocking Chairs, Mattresses,
Cooking Stoves, Crockery Ware, eto.
Also—Apples, Case Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars,
Soap, Oil, Vinegar, Blackberry Brandy.
Clothing, Hosiery, Notions, etc., eta.
On WEDNESDAY, 20th inst.—2 cases (250
dozen) Hosiery, 50 cases Assorted Liquors
and Bitters, 20 dozen Pants, Ladies' Under-
garments, etc., eto. jal7 it
s
OUTH PUEBLO,
THE TERMINUS OF THE
oc31 3m
THOS. C. PARRISH, Sec'y,
South Pueblo, Colorado.
Legal Advertisements.
rpRUSTEE'S SALE.
By virtue of a doed of trust executed by
Daniel D. Atchison, on the ltith day of June,
1873, and recorded in Book C, page 520, of
Grimes Oounty Record of Mortgages, etc., te
seourethe payment ol liia certain promissory
note, therein described, I, John N. Stowe,
will sell, between the hours of 11 a. m. and 4
p. M., on the TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF JAN-
UARY, 1875, in front of the courthouse door,
in the city of Galveston, for cash, to the high-
est bidder, the place known as Amodale, situ-
ated in the county of Grimes. State of Texas,
one mile north of the city of Havasota, and
containing one hundred acres of land, and de-
scribed by metes and bounds as follows . Be-
ginning at the southeast corner of Mrs. Mas*
ter's place ; thence running with the corner
of her south line west to the line of Catherine
Ackerman; thence north with said line to its
nerth corner ; thence east to the line of Mrs.
Master's, and thence with said line to the
place of beginning ; together with all and
singular improvements thereon, or thereto be-
longing or in anywise appertaining.
ja8td J. N. STOWE, Trustee.
J^EMOVJED REMOVED.
THE LONE STAR BAKERY
Has removed from Winnie street, between
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth, to their
new store on east aide TREMONT, between
Church and Winnie, and have opened in con-
nection a Retail Grocery. Former patrons
will please note change of location. jal7 2t*
rpHE CHARTER OAK
COOK STOVE.
We hazard nothing, we think, in saying that
It has no superior. Sold by
STEELE, WOOD 4 CO.,
jal7 It 68 and 70 Tremont st.
R. F. GEORGE
JJ'OR SALE FOR SALE.
Four Gallons Rich, Pnre Milk,
Every day, over and above our wants.
Inquire of
jal7 JOS. LABAD1E.
ATERS HOUSE.
Having leased this well-known house, I am
prepared to furnish Comfortable Rooms with
Board to Families or Single Gentlemen.
Rooms can be had either Furnished or Unfur-
nished. Each Room is provided with Gas and
Fire-place. A few Day Boarders can also be
accommodated. MADAME A. BOURCIER.
jal? lm
Just Received:
CHEST PROTECTORS,
BATH BRUSHES AND BATHING GLOVES,
BARBERS' COMBS,
BARBHRS' COLOGNE BY THE GALLON.
PAINT BRUSHES, ARTISTS' BRUSHES,
WHITE-WASH BRUSHES, SHOE BRUSHES,
CHAMOIS SKINS,
BURNETT S COLOGNE,
COTTER'S COLOGNE,
HOYT'S GERMAN COLOGNE,
LUBIN'S GENUINE EXTRACTS,
3000 ounces P. AND W. QUININE,
300 ounces P. AND W. MORPHINE,
26 bbls. ALCOHOL. jal6 tf
GALVESTON GIFT ENTERPRISE
ASSOCIATION.
—No. ITS Center Street.
ALL TICKETS SOLD ENTITLED TO A
GIFT.
Dr,w,i Wnmbers, Jan. 16,18T5.
DISTRIBUTION NUMBER 584.
7 4-89-78-63-15-44-39-16-12-55-77
Drawn Numbers, Jan. 18, 8 p.
DISTRIBUTION NUMBER 585.
M.
43-49-34-16-68-7G-4(Mi0-31-74-(>5-5<J- 3
Distributions witnessed and attested by
William R. Johnson. Notary Public.
BOYD A STONE,
Ja8 lm* Managers.
TRUSTEE'S SALE.
cuted by F. P. Holland, on the 19th day of
December, 1873, and recorded in Boek 10,
pages 618 and 619, in Galveston county, which
said deed of trust was given to secure the
payment of the three several promissory
notes of the said F. P. Holland to Airs. Kliza
Kuykendal, therein described; and whereas
all of said promissory notes are past
due and unpaid ; now, therefore, at the
request of the legal holder of said notes, and
for the satisfaction of the same, and in con-
formity with the provisions of said trust
deed, I will sell, at 12 o'clock H , on FRI-
DAY, the 29th day of January, 1875, in
front of the Courthouse for Galveston
county, Texas, at public auction to the high-
est and best bidder, for cash in gold coin, the
following described property, to wit: Lot
Number Ten (10> and the west half of Lot
Number Nine (W X of !)), in Block Number
Four Hundred aud Forty-two (4421, in the city
of Galveston, Texas, together with all tho im-
provements thereon—and will make due con-
veyance to tho purchaser at such sale.
ROBERT G. STREET,
dec27 su5t Trustee.
Iiflerary Advertisements
\ MOST VALUABLE AND
attractive book.
On or about the 2d day of April. liT5, there
will be issued from the press of Messrs. A. S.
Barnes & Co., New York,
a texas scrap book,
To consist of historical, biographical and
miscellaneous matter relating to Texas ami
its people. The historical portion will be
made up of scraps of history, much of which
has never been published, and collected from
authentic sources. There will be more than
One Hundred Original Biographies of early
and prominent Texians, written expressly for
this volume. This will be a feature of tho
book, the value of which can scarcely be over-
stated. The miscellaneous matter, both prose
and poetry. Is all written by Texians, and
much of it for this book.
To give the volume unusual interest to all
old Texians, and their descendants and
friends, as well as to make historical tho
names of the hardy pioneers of this State,
there will be appended to the Scrap Book a
list of Austin's original three hundred Colo-
nists, a list of all living Texas Veterans, a list
of all old Texians who have died or been killed
since 1828; and tho constitution and by-laws
of the Texas Veteran Association, copied
from the records of that organization aud
from the records in the State Comptroller's
ofHce. The back will consist of about 800
pages, and will be elegantly illustrated with
portraits, etc., aud handsomely bound !in
cloth or sheep, as desired. Price of the Texas
Scrap Book, Cloth, $5 00; Sheep, $G 00.
The undersigned, who is the comuiler of tho
volume, is also the-sole agent for its sale. All
who desire a copy should address him, at Aus-
tin, Texas, at an early day. State the kind of
Dinding wanted. . .„
a LIBERAL OFFER —To any one who will
send me the names of ten subscribers to the
Scrap Book, with postoffice address, I will
give a volume of the book bound in cloth.
jaS DAWlm D. w. C. BAKER, Austin, Texas.
wants—Lost—Found.] !
y OST LOST LOST.
Land Scrip Certificates Nos. 1-186, 1-137,
1-138, 1-139, 1-140 and 1-141, issued to J. Poite-
yent by Jacob Kuechler, Commissioner of the
General Land Office, on the 30th day of Octo-
ber, 1873. If not found within the time pre-
scribed by law, application will be made for
duplicates.
<fe3i 2mo* J. POITEVENT, Owner,
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