The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 151, Ed. 1 Monday, August 20, 1883 Page: 2 of 4
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A. H. BELO & CO., Publishers.
CIRCULATION EQUAL
TO THAT OF ALL
THE OTHER DAILY PRESS
OF TITE STATE COMBINED
Momlay, August 20, 1SS8.
THE GALVESTON NEWS
Fifth Annual Special Edition,
September 1, 1303,
With Complete Chart of the Railway
System of the State and Its
Connections.
On the 1st of September next the fifth
annual special edition of The News—eight
pages, sixty-four columns—will bo issued from
the office of the establishment. The increasing
favor with which succeeding special editions
have been received is an assurance that they
are of value in makiug known the rapid develop-
ment that is taking place in Texas, and in pre-
senting a condensed but graphic delineation of
the splendid resources of the State.
The coming publication will partake of the
best features of its four immediate predeces-
sors, care being taken to look after the impor-
tant subject of the value of the State's export-
ed products. To secure this, The News has
been afforded, as in years past, access to the
best records kept within the State. The ser-
vices of a corps of special writers have been
secured, each master of bis subject, who will
contribute to the interest and value of the
coming edition. While new methods will
be employed to render this edition attractive,
the main idea pursued in previous publications
will be kept strictly in sight. The work will
be devoted purely to a review of the State
at large. It is designed to cover the re-
sources of Texas in their multifarious forms,
together with a minute history of railroad
development as a prime factor in the State's
progress. The special edition to be issued on
the 1st of September next will cover a wide
scope of research. No portion of the State
will be neglected. The character and worth
of previous publications of the kind will serve
to guarantee the value of that of September
next.
Orders for the coming special edition have
already been received that point to a circula-
tion of immense proportions. As usual a copy
will be sent to each regular subscriber to the
Daily and Weekly News. The circulation
of the edition will consequently cover the en-
tire State, while many thousands will be circu-
lated throughout the North, South, East and
West, and in Europe, by corporations and
individuals interested in the State and its
progress.
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Tite thought-reader finds Newport society
people's thoughts light reading.
The Chicago Telegram does not think a
girl is precisely sacquereligious if she does
go to church to show oil in her new sacque.
Many business men sympathized with
the telegraph strikers, but rejoiced at the
announcement that the strike was over in
any way. Business is selfishness, and let
not strikers forget it.
A vicious dog was seut over Niagara
Falls last week for a good riddance. But
the dog came out alive below the falls
with all the ill nature soaked out of him,
and is now an admired household pet.
There is a small discussion as to whether
boys ought to be taught the dead languages.
It appears that they don't often learn them,
whether taught or not. Most boys think it
will be time enough to learn the dead
languages when one is dead.
An intending, passenger arriving at the
railroad station fifteen minutes too late for
the train, complains of the company. The
tram was twenty minutes late a day or two
before, but when he wanted to travel it was
only two minutes behind tim<S. Thus he
got left.
A doctor said to his patient: "Sir, I
find you taking a fourth glass of beer. I
had strictly prescribed that you should not
exceed three." The patient replied: "Yes,
doctor j but when I have taken three I feel
made over—born again—and you know the
first necessity of the newly born is to drink."
General WicKHAJi,the straight Republi-
can opponent of the coalition party of Vir-
ginia, accepts a nomination for the Virginia
Senate, and declares himself in complete
accord with the Democrats in opposition to
Mahone and the Readjusters, and to the in-
terference of the national administration in
State politics.
A youngster who heard the preacher
say that husband and wife are oiia flesh,
went home and meditated on the assertion,
then told his sister it couldn't be true, or else,
he argued: " Why doesn't ma have to howl,
too, when she pulls pa's hair?" The sister
said she had heard ma, at such times, make
a noise that seemed to show feeling.
In harmony with Mr. Gladstone's con-
ciliatory disposition most of the press of
England is strikingly if not amusingly offi-
cious as to Anglo-French friendship. As
the Italian Times observes: "In the Eng-
lish press there is an excessive amount of
French amiability, while in the Paris press
there is a greater degree of English ani-
madversion. "
Olaf Anderson and his wife, who* in-
tended to sail for Hamburg on a steamer, em-
ployed a New York hackmau to carry them to
the wharf. He pretended it was fourteen miles
away, charged So, and, by taking them a
roundabout route, caused them to miss the
steamer. The hackman's employer has been
made to refund $4, and is required to pay
the expenses of Mr. Anderson and his wife
during the time they have been delayed.
It has often been remarked that women
are naturally more moral than men, but
when perverted they are worse. Here is an
instance of audacity only a' woman could
have been guilty of: In a California cemetery
a large monument stood over the grave of a
man whose relatives were dead. A woman
boldly had it removed to her own lot, planed
off its inscription and had it lettered again
to suit the mortuary requirements of her
family.
A stretch of water on the Tweed, two
miles long and running through the Duke
of Roxburgh's estate, is let at a rental of
$4000 a year, at which figure the enthusias-
tic angler could not possibly recompense
himself for his outlay except in the way of
sport, even if he got the fish for himself;
but he has not even that privilege. The
duke's fisherman attends him, and when
each day's fishing is concluded will give to
him the fish he has caught, but at market
prices.
gSMRS. Bancroft, the actrcss, visited re-
cently one of the most celebrated dentists in
London, who seldom handles any but aristo-
cratic jaws, to have her teeth examined and
operated on. Knowing the weakness of the
expert, she asked what his charge was, but
he refused to say until he had completed
what was but an inspection and some clean-
ing. This done, he said his charge was
$250. The artiste protested, and offered
$100, which, she said, was all the money
she had with her. She added that she
brought so much because she was told the
charge would be exorbitant, and provided
herself with a sum expected to meet the
highest figure. She declares that the fashion-
able dentist took the $100, and, clapping his
back to the door, would not allow her to
leave until she had signed a note for the
rest. The case is to be heard in court.
Quits recently a woman fell dead at
prayer-meeting in Georgia. Then eight
negroes who were on their way across the
James river at Richmond to a church ser-
vice were drowned by the overturning of
the boat they were in. Two weeks ago two
young men lost their lives in a similar man-
ner while going to a camp-meeting on
Kemperfeldt bay, up in Canada. Perhaps
these persons had been Sabbath-breakers in
their earlier days, and the punishment was
only delayed.
The climax of egotism is found in \ ictor
Hugo. In one of the last poems of l'Annee
Terrible, M. Hugo paints, at great length
and with startling rhetoric, the possibility
that God may at last be found to have de-
ceived mankind all along—that the moral
cosmos may be reduced to a chaos, and man,
the sport of destiny, expire in a ruined uni-
verse. The point of the poem is expressed
in four lines telling what M. Hugo would
do to the maker of such an abortive system.
Literally translated his blank verse amounts
to this:
I woi-ld go; I would see Him, ana Z would seize
Him
In tbe heavens, as we take a wolf in the forest:
And terrible, indignant, ealm. extraordinary—
i would denounce Him to his own thunder.
After this who will contest the claim that
Victor Hugo has a huge idea of his own
prowess, and that he is the greatest of Gallic
poets?
An anecdote of the violinist Vieuxtemps
runs that in his professional travels he was
once entertained by a rich Russian and was
not a little frightened when he sat down to
dinner at perceiving beneath the table a
dark body, from which a pair of fiery eyes
glared upon him. " Don't disturb yourself,"
said the lad}* of the house, "it is only the
black wolf—he is quite tame." When bed-
time came and Vieuxtemps was just retir-
ing, he discovered the same dark form
gliding up to him. " Don't disturb your-
self, sir," said the valet, "it is the black
wolf. I will drive him off." Next morn-
ing Vieuxtemps heard the report of a
double-barreled shot-gun in the yard.
" What does that mean?" he inquired of
the valet, who entered the room. " Don't
disturb yourself, sir," replied the attendant;
" they have just been shooting the pet
wolf. He jumped on the cook and bit about
four pounds of steak out of his leg."
PARTY NAMES AND THE INDEPEN-
DENT PRESS.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat quotes an
argument from The News, which it calls
" an able and outspoken Democratic paper,"
and asks the New York Sun, which it also
calls " an able and outspoken Democratic
paper," to put that in its pipe and smoke it.
There is more or less in party names—chiefly
less, as the years roll by. The Republican
press is stalwart or half-breed, or indepen-
dent or liberal, or for office only, and other
papers may be " Democratic at all times
and under all circumstances," as the old
motto runs, when if they spell it with a
capital D they are for the old party right or
wrong. That is the technical Democracy
of party politics in this country. The papers
that take for their political aim the cause of
popular self-government and enlighten-
ment, and advocate measures without count-
ing the effect upon the fortunes of partisan
leaders and their political organizations,
can afford to point out a distinction which,
when appreciated, will smash the Republi-
can machine as well as often the Demo-
cratic machine. The principle of demo-
cratic republican government is the rule of
the people through regularly chosen repre-
sentatives. In its purity all laws are to be
made for the equal protection of the people
living under the government. The Repub-
lican party plays upon a name and the
Democratic party conjures by a name as
well, and both have their traditions, but as
to what shall be done for the realization of
the democratic republican ideal in the busi-
ness of politics, the parties as represented
by their leaders are practically bands of can-
didates and their respective supporters.
The Sun cries, "turn the Republicans out,"
calculating that then the Democrats
must be put in, as there are but
two prominent parties. The News
says to the Democrats, plant your
standard upon principles and policies of
fair, special and practical application to the
needs of the people, with primary regard to
the rights of individuals and the limits of
governmental potency for useful ends, not
to annihilate or supplant self-dependence in
individuals and communities, but to guard,
protect and organize them so that they may
develop their native talents and capacity in
an orderly manner. Let this be the rule in
commerce and in civil and political life,and
let that set of politicians who will make
themselves definitely understood and offer
the best bond of reputation and character
for carrying out any line of policy in
accord with these principles, and for the
time being of practical application to the
reform of existing laws, obtain the offices
on an honorable canvass of the
propositions they have to present to
the voters. This is the kind of
democracy which The News favors. It
does not appear that the Sun's democracy is
of the same kind; and the difference is
totally independent of the question whether
the Sun would or would not support the
Democratic party under any sort of leader-
ship and on any sort of platform declara-
tions. The difference is not that between
bolter and unswerving adherent to party.
It is that between adherence to the princi-
ple of democracy on the one hand and ad-
herence to the practice of promoting the
fortunes of office-seekers on the other hand.
There is far more affinity between the office-
seeking Republican band and the office-
seeking Democratic band than there is be-
tween either of these bands and the inde-
pendent press which may favor one or an-
other national party in a conditional and
rational manner as an instrumentality to be
used by the people for the improvement of
public business and the promotion of public
interests.
A CONVENIENT COMMISSION.
The legislature appropriated $5000 to in-
vestigate frauds in connection with the sale
of school lands. A commission of three per-
sons was, under the law, created to expend
this sum of money in six months time, al-
though the avowed object of the legislative
provision was rather to make the investiga-
tion of alleged land frauds. However, the
commissioners have entered heartily into
the work, and it may be admitted at once
that they have been fully able to discharge
their duties in respect to the ap-
propriation. Their per diem at $5
during the six months being $900
each, and traveling expenses quite as much,
making $1800 each, will more than
absorb the $5000 appropriation that was
available. The traveling expenses were
necessarily considerable, in the first place
because the territory was large that they had
to examine, and in the next place because
officials traveling in Texas are not furnished
with ships of war and special railway trains
in which to make their excursions and in-
cursions. The traveling was necessary, in
the first place because the parties charged
with frauds had to be interviewed quietly
in their western retreats, where they were
more likely to divulge to the friendly com-
missioner the true status of their claims
than they would have been if brought to
Austin, where the land office records were
calculated to embarrass and complicate
matters; and in the next place because, with-
out the travel, there would have
been no mileage and traveling ex-
penses and the appropriation could not
have been exhausted. Tu» i«» r.rovidiag
for the investigation was so changed and
amended in its passage that nothing could
well be expected from it, except the glori-
fication of the commissioners. In the legis-
lature the majority of conservative mem-
bers were opposed to any investigation of
the kind, but yielded to the provision for
this summer excursion, merely from fear of
seeming to stand in the way of the supposed
popular demand for the promised exposures.
Their opposition was based on the ground
that where the only fraud to be exposed
was the payment to the government of the
full price for school lands purchased in ex-
cess of the amount permitted by law, the
State was not harmed. If the object of the
law was to sell the lands at the price
fixed by the State it made no difference
whether one person cr ten persons pur-
chased 10,000 acres. It is now stated that
many parties who have made purchases in
their own names of the maximum amount
of land permitted by law, and of equal
amounts in the names of their uncles, aunts,
cousins and even mothers-in-law, and who
only have made first payments, are not
averse to having their purchases annulled
and their money returned. The land and
cattle boom of last year had encouraged
them into large and hazardous ventures,
and now the reaction has come. A bad
winter and pressing financial wants, en-
tailed by reason of stocking ranches on a
credit, it is understood, have brought many
to the verge of bankruptcy. It is also under-
stood that many thousands of acres of almost
valueless lands, purchased in the hey day of
the late land mania, would be abandoned
by the speculative purchasers, even if they
were not investigated out of such incum-
brances. The legislature authorized the
treasurer to refund moneys paid for State
lands in certain cases, and it is known that
some $70,000 had been already refunded
under that enactment. Evidently there is
at this moment every indication that the
legislature has provided a safe and easy way
for the land speculator to unload, and it re-
mains to be seen whether or not the land
frauds commission was intended by the
wily landmen in the legislature and lobbies
as a necessary and useful adjunct to the un-
loading process then in contemplation.
.4 LAND PROBLEM LOOMING UP.
An exchange calls attention to the state-
ment that $80,000,000 of English capital
was invested in American cattle ranches
lest year, and says there are now in the
west agents from several large institutions
in England and Holland buying up water
privileges, and it may be safely estimated
that an equal amount will be invested this
year in the same way. This demand for
lands has long been desired by many; but
the matter is one that has many sides, amj
embraces enough to occupy the most serious
attention of statesmen and philanthropists.
The Brenliam Banner copies the statement
imputed to an intelligent young English-
man, of good family, a baronet's son, who
had been investing largely in lands in Texas,
and who, when asked how it was so many
of his countrymen were buying land in this
country, said: "There is a very general
feeling that there will be a great change in
England soon, equal to that made in your
South by your civil war. A revolution is
silently but surely preparing that will up-
root all the remnants of the old feudal sys-
tem. " It does look as though the system were
striving to transplant itself to this country,
where landed estates are being acquired by
Englishmen and others that rival any in
Europe. How the system is working in
England is thus briefly hinted by a late
American tourist in that country:
In my wanderings in the agricultural district of
Great Britain I was often prompted bj curiosity to
ask tbe value of the land that lay stretched be-
neath my view. When told that it was worth so
many dollars an acre, represented in the English
replies by pounds and shillings, I at first fell into
the error of supposing that this reported value
meant its actual freehold worth. But these an-
swers invariably meant the rental price of the laud.
Actual ownership by farmers and agricultural
laborers is so exceedly exceptional in England
that 2250 persons own one-half of the inclosed
'and in England and Wales—2250 out of a popula-
tion of 20,000,000. In the time of William the Con-
queror the population of these countries
was 2.000,000. Yet at that time there were
ten times as many land-owners in England and
Wales as at the present day. But what is more
striking yet, in the way of land facts, is the authen-
tic statement that one-half of all the land of Eng-
land and Wales belongs to 1)4 per cent, of all the
land owners of these two countries. The laws and
customs of primogeniture and entail place the
great bulk of the land of the kingdom in the
hands of nominal owners. They hold pessession
during their lives under many and close restric-
tions. The farming lands belonging to the great
estates are leased to farmers; and these leases
usually run only from year to year. The agricul-
tural laborers are hireu from day to day, or, at
most, from year to year; and they have, of course,
no permanent interest in the land upon which they
toil. On every hand, in these garden districts of
England, I saw stately baronial halls, surrounded
by far-reaching home parks, under the shadows of
which countless numbers of deer, hares, rabbits,
pheasants, etc., were enjoying a protected exist-
ence. But where were to be found the homes of
the army of agricultural laborers, which was de-
manded to perform the work upon the home estates
of the nobility and gentry, and upon the farms at-
tached to these estates, and rented to the farmers,
large and small? I saw few laborers' homes along
the hedge-lined roads and green lanes. The pre-
sence of their humble cottages would be considered
a blot upon the rural scenery. As a general thing
the farm workers are closely huddled in little vil-
lages located in some retired corner of the lordly do-
mains—villages quite often shabby in appearance,
badly drained and with narrow streets lined with
tenements of the humblest character. I visited
Hatfield House, the stately country seat of Lord
Salisbury. Yet I found right at the entrance to
Hatfield House, under the shadow of the great
brick walls of his park, a village belonging to him
of a filthy and most poverty stricken aspect. Its
population was entirely made up of families whose
adult members were laborers upon Lord Salisbury's
parks and farm lands, in his halls and stables.
Their little huts were out of repair, broken windows
stuffed with bats, etc., being visible on all sides,
and the wretched sanitary condition of the ham-
let was revealed by the noxious odors arising in all
directions.
Yet Lord Salisbury is regarded as not
only one of the ablest of the statesmen, but
one of the most humane of the landlords
of England. Even this country, with its
vast stretches of territory, can not claim
entire exemption from the difficulties, per-
plexities and perils of the land problem. In
this problem, here as well as elsewhere, all
achievements of civilization and all insti-
utions of civil liberty must be submitted to
their final and crucial test. A landless peo-
ple can not be truly a free people or a per-
manently prosperous people. In nothing
else can such strong and enduring guaran-
tees of a republic be found as in the con-
servatism of a landed democracy.
—
PENSAOOLA NAVY-YARD.
The eyes of the country are just now
turned on Pensacola. The progress of
yellow fever at the navy-yard, seven miles
distant, will be watched with interest. Be-
yond the mere fact that the present out-
break arose from a marine belonging to the
navy-yard, who sickened and died with the
disease, nothing has yet been published—if,
indeed, anything positively is known, re-
garding the origin of the fever on this oc-
casion. The question whether the marine
had been exposed in any way to the
disease, either on board some of the vessels
from Vera Cruz or other infected ports,
which some time ago arrived in the north-
ern waters of the gulf, or otherwise, is one
of no little importance, but which may not
be now susceptible of decision. It is a fact,
however, that while scarcely twelve months
have passed since the city of Pensacola was
ravaged by an epidemic—thus possibly
leaving behind the seeds of another visita-
tion, if there is anything in recent discovery
in Brazil—quarantine regulations at Pen-
sacola this season have been of a
loose and careless charactcr. To this
fact may possibly be due the present
trouble. But whatever the origin of the fe-
ver in this instance, the chief concern with
the people of Pensacola, no less than of
other towns and cities on the north gulf-
coast especially liable to infection from this
quarter, is to prevent, if possible, the fur-
ther spread of the disease. It is gratifying
to note the fact that, to do this, every pos-
sible step is being prouptly taken by the
people and local authorities of Pensacola
and the government at Washington, which,
through Surgeon-general Hamilton, offers
to assist in establisting the navy-yard
cordon by the employment of as
many guards as may be necessary.
These precautions hav« been taken imme-
diately upon the death of the fi rst patient,
and there is every reason to believe that
whatever virtue in quar antine and complete
and thorough isolation, the people of Pen-
sacola and the towns in» its rear now threat
ened will have the full benefit of it. In-
deed, the circumstances make a sort of test
case for the theory of yellow fever quaran-
tine, and the outcome will be looked for
with keen attention by people outside of
Pensacola. If the plague can not be shut
up in the navy yard, and Pensacola itself
becomes infected, the Mississippi valley will
again be in%danger, and a repetition of the
epidemic in that region, some years ago,
would be a national calamity.
STATE PRESS.
What tho Interior Papers Say.
The County Court of Bexar county have in-
structed the county clerk to make an abstract
of all deeds of trust, mortgages and liens on
record from January 1, 1S80, and to ascertain
which of the deeds are now in force, tho extra
service being paid for at a fair rate. The
information is required to assist the commis-
sioners in taxing those who are money lenders.
It is not much to the credit of Galveston county
that many others assess a much larger amount
of money loaned than this. The commissioners
may take a lesson from Bexar.
The Cratesville Sun has entered on its six-
teenth volume, a most attractive age, and im-
proves with time, though it never exhibited
any juvenile follies.
The "Waco Examiner says.
Press comments are zenerally favofable to Hon.
W. K. Hoimn as an aspiraut f«>r the position
soon to be vacate.! by Jud^e Morrill.
The San Antonio Express thinks:
It would take the St.ite university many years to
recover from the effects of the hunf hamnioned
opening: no\v proposed by tb«* regents. and if it is
absolutely necessary that th^ gentlemen of tbe
faculty have their salaries, it w.-r i befter to let
them draw them anil remain in idleness until the
opening cau be properly made. There was en-
tirely too much haste iu the appointment of the
faculty.
In the succeeding paragraph, on another sub-
ject, the Express says: " Great men must
live."
When a man or woman takes passage on one
of the gospel ships of Cleburne, they take a
chance to be thrown overboar.l, like Jonah,
but without any friendly whale to take him or
her in out of the wet. The Chronicle says:
Mr. Bay lis and wife, who reside in Cleburne,
were recently excommunicated from the Adventist
church. Mrs. Baylis was charged with being pos-
sessed with a devil. It seems that at tim<»s she was
given to groin? into a trance, during which times
she viewed the scenes of nature, with its moving
mass of humanity, as In a panorama. After one of
these trances it was her custom to projihesy with
reference to the church, and to relate what she had
seeen going on among the communicants. Her
revelations were not accepted, and she was ar-
raigned before the church, charged with being
possessed or a devil, and expelled. Mr. Baylis was
faithful to his wife, indorsed her prophesies, be-
lieved her revelations to be true; consequently he
was also tumbled overboard.
Tho Husk County Times remarks:
We see from The Galveston News that Profes-
sor W. M. Crow, of Mineola. has been appointed
superintendent of public schools in that city. This
high honor, coming, as it does, unsolicited by Pro-
fessor Crow, is recognized and appreciated by his
friends here Galveston has honored a worthy
man. Teaching is his chosen profession, aud his
ability in that line is of the first order, as evidenced
by his work in Henderson college, Hubbard college,
aud as superintendent of the city schools of Mine-
ola. In addition to his pre-eminent qualifications
as a teacher, he possesses the brightest jewel of
manhood, sterling integrity. He was born aud
reared in this county, and his friends are proud of
his continued success.
The Seguin Times casts a pebble to swell tho
cairn of the champion egotist of the Texas
press:
Big I Ridgell, of the Athens Narrow-Gauge, in
his use of the singular personal pronoun, casts
aside all the dignity his paper might otherwise pos-
sess. His paper is well named, for irs opinions,
being narrowed down to those of an individual, its
gauge is very narrow indeed.
The Columbus Citizen says of the tele-
graph operator at that place, named E. Stan-
bery, who was arrested in Galveston, charged
with purloining §420, the property of the
Western Union Telegraph company:
Mr. Flanders had eriven him the money to pur-
chase a draft from the J. H. Simpson bank, of this
city, to forward to the company's headquarters
But, instead of buying the draft for the Western
Union company, he bought at the bank of R E.
Stafford & Co., of this city, a draft ou Galveston
for the amount in favor of himself. He left on the
next train for Galveston, collected the money, and
had " a high old time." Mr. Flanders " caught on "
to the fraud directly, aud relegraphed the Galves-
ton banker not to pay the draft. This telegram
was sent at 5 o*clock in the evening, but for some
unaccountable reason was not delivered till 10
o'clock next day, about ten minutes after the draft
had been paid.
In noting the resignation of United States
Judge Morrill the Marlin Ball says:
Hon. W. K. Homan, it is said, will be an appli-
cant for the position. His appoiniment would be a
good one and give general satisfaction, for he is a
good lawyer aud an upright man.
The Corsicana Observer, a religious paper,
says of delinquent subscribers who have to be
dunned:
It is strange that men have to be hunted up be-
fore they will pay as small an amount as a news-
paper subscription, and yet it is true.
In matters of this kind the elect are no bet-
ter than the world's people. Rev. Mr. Stiteler»
a Baptist clergyman, of Galveston, once said
of an incorrigible negro preacher: " There is
no power in redeeming grace ever to reach
Dave's case at all," and it seems equally hard
to make people pious enough to pay the printer.
Religious papers complain as much as others
of delinquent subscribers.
The Georgetown Sun discusses the church
festival question fairly, and is "firmly con-
vinced that such methods should not be employ-
ed to obtain means to carry on the affairs of
the church." The Sun also objects to the
fashion of sending young ladies out to solicit
contributions and sell tickets for such festi-
vals, and says:
Sometimes the ticket sellers are not out of sight
before the purchaser is swearing because he was
caught and forced to buy. These entertainments are
not only wrong in principle, but the means fre-
quently resorted to in order to make them finan-
cially successful, are objectionable, and in such
cases the effects of the entertainment are bad. The
object of Christianity is understood to be to con-
quer and change the hearts of men, and, according
to the Bible, the cause of Christianity should re-
ceive its support from those whose spirits have
been brought under the control of its heavenly
teachings.
A Mexican paper, the Cuerda del Padre Co-
bos, having said that the purchase of* large
bodies of land in Mexico by Americans is a
peaceful way of conquering the country, and
warning Mexicans against the danger, the
Brownsville (Texas) Cosmopolitan compares
this warning to the old native American agi-
tation in the United States, and says:
Had the move succeeded, the United States
would probably have been an infinitely poorer aud
much less populous country than it now is. Our
people would still, by the slow method of natural
increase, be settling the now teeming prairies of
the great West, and we would have no surplus
capital to be seeking investment in Mexico or any-
where else. Foreign capital has always fouud a
profitable field of investment in the United States,
and has always been welcome. We welcome for-
eign immigration. We have recognized that the
inroad of foreign brain and muscle built up our
wilderness, and brought us the greatest of all
riches that a nation can possess—an abundance of
laborers. We have welcomed foreign capital be-
cause it has furnished us with means of rapid de-
velopment. Mexico, with her great natural re-
sources, can profit by the lesson, and become one
of the richest. We believe the Mexican a more
adaptable, progressive and go-ahead people,
that only need a stable government to become
rich and prosperous, and we believe that the slur
cast by implication on them by such papers as the
Padre Cabos an undeserved one.
The Lavaca Herald reports verdicts of not
guilty in no less than ten criminal cases and
convictions in three others. From an editorial
in the Herald it may be inferred that the edi§
tor thinks the prosecuting attorney was not
quite as careful as he might have been in pre-
paring for the trials. The proportion of ac-
quittals was certainly very large, and enough
to excite remark. The modern idea is that
prosecuting attorneys are to take a judicial,
rather than partisan, view of cases; but if, as
the Herald requests, the prosecutor would at-
tend the sittings of the grand jury and make
himself acquainted with the character of the
evidence before that body, he would be better
able to determine whether true bills should be
found and prosecuted or otherwise. A lawyer
who should lose ten out of thirteen cases in
private practice would be likely to lose most
of his practice also.
Some Texas papers refuse to take up the
gauntlet when others offer battle. The Blanco
Star-Vindicator is for peace. It says:
Our Rural friend is still disposed to play the
blackguard; which game it can play alone, too, so
far as the Star-Vindicator is conoerhed.
In a liko spirit the Rusk County News re-
marks :
The low-flung, personal attacks made on us
through the columns of the last issue of the Times,
emanating from the source they do, are not worthy
of a reply.
There is nothing like a soft answer to turn
away wrath. These forbearing Texas editors
should serve as an example to a Missouri paper,
the Marble Hill Reflector, which retorts on an
esteemed contemporary in a long tirade begin-
ning as follows:
The ignorant, contemptible, mean, sneaking,
cowardly, self-important, low-flung, dirty, outland-
ish,baefc-bitiug, self-styled "politician," dead beat,
whisky bloat, backwoods bummer, log-cabin child
of misfortune, beer-inflated, big-headed, soft-skull-
ed, overrated swamp angel, diriy whelp, poor
crawling, creeping viper; dirty scum of the dirty,
stinking, stagnated swamp; mean, big-jawed, slab
sided, knock-kneed, bow-legged, bandered-shanked
pup. etc.
Such remarks are calculated to engender ill
feeling, and are never indulged by well con-
ducted Texas papers. Yet the Corpus Christi
Critic imitates it so far as to say;
That short-legged, knock-kneed, box-ankled,
pigeon-toed, bandy-shanked, hook-nosed, curly-
headed, auburn-haired, squint-eyed, long-eared,
open-jawed, hatchet-faced, physical dwarf, but
mental giant who pro temmed for us Saturday,avail-
ed himself of the opportunities afforded to accuse
us of all manner of things, of which even his " con-
stitutional " jury would acqait us in live minutes.
Professor O. C. Marsh—see August number
of the Journal of the Franklin Institute—is
confirmed in his opinion that the rootprints in
the sandstone in the yard of the state prison,
near Carson, Nev., had not been made by the
human foot, as had been supposed, but by
some huge Edentates. He states that the
important fact has lately been determined that
some of the tracks show impressions of the
fore feet. ^
Gexerai, Grant does not like to travel on
Sunday if he can help it. The other day Gen-
eral Porter telegraphed to him in the Catskill
mountains that a directors' car was at his dis-
posal for a trip to Long Branch on Sunday.
General Grant politely declined it, saying: " 1
always tried not to travel on Sunday when I
held office, and there does not seem to be any
reasonable excuse for it now."
THE MAID OF THE MIST.
Sow She Carried Three Persons
Through the Whirlpool Rapids AliTe«
[Buffalo Express.]
A short sketch of the memorable trip of the
Maid of the Mist, on which ware the only per-
sons who ever went through the Whirlpool
rapids and the whirlpool itself and came out
alive, will be of interest The boat which made
this trip was built in 1S54. For awhile she
took passengers from both the American and
Canadian shore, and ran up very close to the
foot of the falls. Owing to some change in her
appointment*, which confined her to
the Canadian shore for » the re-
ception of passengers, sbfe became
unprofitable. Her owner, wishing to leave
the place, determined to sell her, and he
received an offer of little more than half her
coat if he would deliver her at Niagara, oppo-
site the fort. This he decided to do after con-
sultation with Joel R. Robinson, who acted as
captain and pilot on her trips under the falls.
Mr. Robinson consented to act as pilot for the
fearful voyage, and the engineer. Mr. Jones,
agreed to go with him. A machinist, Mr. Mc-
Intyre, volunteered to share the risk with them.
The boat was put in complete trim, all super-
ilous articles being removed from the deck aud
hold. Notice was given of the time of start-
ing, and a large crowd assembled to see the
fearful plunge, and no one expected to see
either boat or crew again after they should
leave the dock, which was just above the rail-
way suspension bridge.
About 8 o'clock in the afternoon ot June 15,
1861, the engineer took his place in the hold,
and knowing that their flitting trip would be
short at the longest, set his steam valve at the
proper gauge, and waited the tinkling signal
that should start them on their living voyage.
Robinson took his place at the wheel and gave
the starting signal. With a shriek from her
whfstle and a white puff from her escape-pipe,
the boat ran up the eddy a short distance,
cleared the smooth water, and shot like an
arrow into the rapid nuder the bridge. She
took the outside curve of the rapid, and when a
third of the way dowu it a jet of water struck
against the rudder, a colufen dashed up under
her starboard side, keeled her over, carried
away her smokestack, started her overhang on
that side, thrt w Robinson on his back, and
threw Mclutyre against her starboard wheel-
house with such force as to break it through.
Every looker-on breathed freer a« she emerged,
shook her wounded sides, slid into the whirl-
pool and for a moment rode again ou an even
keel. Robinson rose at once, seized the helm,
set her to the right of the large pot in the pool,
then turned her directly through the neck of
it. Thence, after receiving another drenching
from the waves, she dashed on without further
accident to the quiet river below Lewiston.
The boat was 72 feet long, with 17 feet breadth
of beam, 8 feet depth of hold and carried an
engine of 100-horse power.
About Captain Webb-
[London Life.]
I knew Captain Webb very well. I first
made his acquaintance after he had done his
celebrated channel swim. Had he not suc-
ceeded in that adventure the probabilities are
that he would l»e alive at this moment. At that
particular period however, a great daily news-
paper was ready to avail ilself of any sensation
that offered. It was a paper greatly given to dis-
covery of ruined home -, man and dog fights,
and other stimulating subjects calculated
to iuterest the shopmen who live in back par-
lors. the frequenters of tavern bars, "and
generally those who loaf and display an inter-
est in sport. A considerable sum "of money
was collected by the organ in question for the
hero of the hour. Aud beyond that, he had
been elevated into a sort of popular idol for
the moment by people who acted from mere
business instinct, and who, if Webb were
starving, would possibly hesitate about open-
ing their columus to obtain for him either
praise or pence. The inevitable occurred.
It seems only yesterday that I saw Webb
cheered to the echo when he appeared in a box
at the promenade concerts. His portrait was
in the windows of all the photographers. He
dined with celebrity-hunters—and at dinner
one drinks. I do not for a moment mean to
insinuate that Webb succumbed to drink.
What I do mean to say is this, that Webb was
flung into a social vortex which was a fair
omen of tbe natural whirpool in which he was
eventually lost. A man who has been accus-
tomed to daily exercise of the muscles in the
open air—a m#.n who courts the danger of the
elements—is very apt to underrate the effect of
influences, which, though insidious,are swift: in-
fluences which involve late hours, heated atmos-
pheres, and exciting companionships. In a
word, Webb's success was his ruin, and a
physical deterioration was the result of a great
physical triumph. He no longer possessed the
power which enabled him to cross the channel.
His powerful chest had become narrowed, his
lungs unsound, and, although to the end he ex-
hibited the utmost cheerfulness and the most
determined pluck, he was but a shadow of his
former self. Although I have, of course, no wish
to insinuate that he committed suicide, I feel
perfectly satisfied that he had calculated the
chances'of his latest adventure, and knew that
the odds against him ware a thousand to one. He
set his life upon a cast, and stood the hazard
of the die. To me the whole story is full of an
infinite pathos. It is the story of a man who,
under other circumstances, aud surrounded by
less deadly influences, would have shown him-
self strong, resolute and brave. He was made
of the very same stuff out of which circum-
stances framed a Nelson or a Rodney. He has
been hurried into eternity like a rope-dancer
or a trapezist, because the great British middle
class occasionally pants for a sensation, and
because its teachers on the press are ever will-
ing to turn an honest penny by pandering to a
vitiated taste.
An Incident in the Xiife of an O* .
Soldier- «
[Grafton (la.) Sentinel.]
While in Washington the other day we had
the pleasure of meeting General B. F. Kelley,
well known to many of our citizens as the man
who struck the first effectual blow for the
Union at Philippi, in the war of the rebellion.
One day, week before last, an incident occurred
at the National hotel, which shows that indi-
viduals are not always, like republics, un-
grateful, and which we give to the readers of
the Sentinel fresh from the lips of the general
himself:
In the spring of 1862 Kelley was stationed
for a while with his regiment, at Clarksburg.
One day a Captaiu"Gordonv a Confederate spy,
well known to this section of the State, was
captured by some Union men and turned over
to Kelley, who immediately forwarded the
prisoner to Fort McHenry, where he was tried
and condemned to be hanged, according to the
usages of war. His execution was fixed for a
certain day, within a very short time after the
trial. Meanwhile, during some skirmishing in
the vicinity of Petersburg, Captain Rhaub, of
Wheeling, and an officer of Kelley's regi-
ment was captured by the rebels and
held as a sort of "hostage for Cap-
tain Gordon. The Confederates sent
General Kelley word that if Gordan was
hanged they would retaliate by a similar treat-
ment of Rhaub. This roused the sympathies
of the genera], and he at once sent a "statement
of the case to President Lincoln, concluding
his letter with a request that in order to spare
the life of Rhaub, who was a brave and valua-
ble officer, the president would commute Gor-
don's sentence. Mr. Lincoln granted the re-
quest, and Gordon was sent to Fort Delaware.
Of course Rhaub's life was spared, and he was
s- ^on after returned to his regiment. Kelley
did not hear from Goraon after his removal to
Fort Delaware, and was never able to learn his
fate. Twenty years passed. Last Tuesday
week, while the general was sitting in the
lobby of his hotel in Washington, he was ap-
proached by a stranger, who said:
" Have I the pleasure of addressing General
B. F. Kelley, of West Virginia?"
On being answered in the affirmative, he
continued: " I see you do not recognize me.
The last time we met was under rather trying
circumstances—to me. I am Captain Gordon,
the Confederate spy, whom you captured at
Clarksburg and caused to be condemned to die.
I recognized you instantly, and as this is the
first opportunity to thank you personally
for saving my life, I do so now. You pos-
sibly may not know how near to death
I was when you asked Lincoln to spare
me. Well, sir, it was within three
hours of the time set for my execution. My
father, mother, and, in fact, the entire family
had taken what we supposed was their last
farewell of me. It was a sad interview—more
than even a soldier could stand, and as they
bade me a last good-by, never expecting to see
me alive again, I completely broke down. After
they departed I set about making my prepara-
tions to die, for it wanted but three hours un-
til the time would arrive for me to meet that
terrible death. But Lincoln's message came
to withhold the execution of the sen-
tence. It is beyond the power of
tongue to describe the feeling of relief
that came over me on receipt of the news.
None but a man under similar circumstances
can understand or appreciate my feelings.
When I learned that it. was you, my captor,
to whom I owed thanks for my deliverance,
I resolved I would thank you at the first op-
portunity, and here I am to keep mv resolu-
tion."
Then the two who had been such mortal
enemies years before "shook hands across the
bloody chasm," aud immediately became fast
friends. It was a remarkable meeting because
of the peculiar circumstances of their parting
in 1SG2. The incidents of the capture and sen-
tence of Gordon are familiar to many readers
of this paper. _
Labor Xtems-
Tlia Swiss railroad companies now cover a
portion of their carriages with a phosphores-
cent preparation, which makes them visible at
night.
All the best needleworkers in New York are
engaged on a gorgeous screen for the Vander-
bilt mansion. It Is being made at Mr. John
La Farge's studio, under the supervision ot
Mrs. Tillinghast. The gold thread alone used
in its embroidery cost $30,000.
St. Petersburg and Moscow are the only
cities, perhaps, in the world, whose Inhabitants
Rheumatism comes from inactive kidneys. Hon
Bitters never fails to cure it. Try U,
are in part peasants. The work-people in the
factories of these cities are engaged on the con-
dition that they will be allowed vacation to
sow their fields and reap their harvests.
The seizure of a workmen's paper in V ienna
was resented by workmen, forty-two of whom
were arrested. The serious nature of the
demonstration made is shown by tbe fact that
fourteen of the prisoners wore wounded in
the charge made by the police and dragoons.
In North Brazil there are no professional
dress-makers, the finest ladies usually making
their own costumes. When a man buvs his
wife a $2-dress he doesn't have to give her $10
to get it made. There are some things in
North Brazil worthy of imitation in this coun-
try.
London seamstresses are paid three pence
for making boys' suits. Children get two aud
three pence tor making a gross of match
boxes, furnishing their own paste. Emigra-
tion is talked of as a means of relief, but then
it is said emigration would only take away the
best of the poor people, leaving tho worst
specimens of poverty behind.
Massachusetts has a ten-hour law, enforced
by the penalty of a fine ranging from $50 to
$100 for the first offense. The last legislature
extended the provisions of the act to mechani-
cal and mercantile establishments. This affects
many women employed in bakeries, millinery
shops, retail stores, and boys in groceries,
drug-stores and other places. As yet, however,
the small grocery clerk labors from the taking
dowu of the shutters to the putting up of the
same.
The product per man goes down as the per-
centage of agricultural workers goes up. In
the manufacturing States 1,060,681 agricultu-
rists get $484,770,797 per annum for their labor,
while in the agricultural States 2,024,DM work-
ers receive only $325,091*,38$. Comparing the
particular States which make up these four
classes we find the average value of produc-
tion for each farmer or farm laborer engaged
. . sippi, New Jersey
being the highest and Mississippi the lowest
average in the United States.
This is a new German method for preparing
a pressed enamel upon glass : A mixture of
dry enamel, thick piue oil, and dammar lac is
laid on the glass in a semi-dried state. After
drying the drawing is pressed iu. The enamel
is then burned. In this way it is possible to
reproduce the forms of figures in slight relief,
the feathers of birds, the haiis of animals, and
the veins of leaves.
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British Medical Journal.
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King Iron Bridge
THE EXERCISES OF
ALTA VISTA INSTITUTE
Will be resumed September 5.
For circular, address
Dr. R. M. SWF.ARIN'GEN'.
or JIhs. H. m. KIKBY,
Austin. Texas.
ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY,
Galveston, Texas,
WILL RE-OPEN ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3.
Considering that we have aocommodation for 110
boarders ouly, we request ail those who wish to
attend the aext session—iacludiag former pupils—
to notify us of their iotention as soon as possible.
Write for la-st aunual Catalogue to
Rev. A. M- TRUCHARP. President.
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No institution in America is more practical.
Apartments, appliances and methods unsurpassed.
The students actually buy and sell merchandise;
ship, consign, insure, discount, draw cheeks, drafts,
notes, etc. They have the actual experience of the
real merchant and banker.
For particulars or circular address
R. H. HILL., Principal, Waco. Texas.
AND
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4 I.*: PJPOHi 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 Building, Houston,
Texas.
AND
POWER COMPANY,
HOITSTOlSr, TEXAS.
This company operates the United States system
of Arc and Incandescent Electrict .Lights, which is
acknowledged to be the best system in present use.
Being sole grantees of Southern Texas, this com-
pany is prepared to negotiate for rights and fran-
chises in the counties of Galveston. Travis, Wash-
ington, Walker, Robertson. Brazos, Madison, Mi-
lam, Jefferson, Orauce, Colorado, Victoria. Bell,
Austin. Fort Bend. Bastrop, Burnet, Montgomery,
Grimes, Burleson, Guadalupe, Williamson. Nueces,
Caldwell. Lavaca. Fayette, and any other counties
south of the 31st parallel.
Parties wishing to inspect the system are request-
ed to call on the undersigned aud see the lights in
operation at the Electric Light Station and through-
out the city.
For terms and other information apply to
E. RAPHAEL, President,
Houston. Texas.
BANKS AND BANKERS.
I
SAN
iuiu mi
ANTONIO, TEXAS.
J. M. BROWNSON, President.
J. s. THORNTON, Cashier.
Transacts a General Banking Bnslnesa.
BUSINESS CHANGES.
VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the firm of
_l> BURKE A MOSER, marble dealers, is dis-
solved by mutual agreement.
JOHN H. MOSER continues the business, op-
posite the Washington hotel, assumes all liabilities,
and will collect all debts due the firm.
E. J. BURKE,
JOHN H. MOSER.
J. W. 11YKNES,
ROOFING & PAVING
Contractor and Manufacturer of
Cypress Paying Blocks,
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
24th session, 1883.
Young: Ladies Boarding1 and Day School
MISS M. B. BROWNE, Directress.
2*1 McKinney street - HOUSTON, TEXAS.
ANNOUNCEMENT—The 24th scholastic year of
the above institute will commence September 3,
1883. No pains will be spared to merit a coutinuance
of that kind and valued patronage hitherto so
liberallv bestowed. For terms, whicti are moderate,
please address MISS M. B. BROWNE.
JAINT MARY'S ACADEMY
AUSTIN, TEXAS,
conducted by
THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS.
Studies will be resumed in this institution
MONDAY, September 3, 1S83.
For particulars address SISTER SUPERIOR.
909 Mulberry street, Austin, Texas.
A Homo School for Boys*
SITUATED AT GLENDALE, MO.,
On tlie Missouri-Pacific Railroad,
Eleven mass from St. Louis. Location healthy.
Grounds large and attractive. Slental. moral and
physical welfare of the boys has the most careful
attention. Corps of instructors competent.
THE NEXT TERM OPENS SEPTEMBER 12,
1883. , . ,
For terms and particulars address the principal(
E. A. HAIGHT, A. M„ Kirkwood, Mo.
igriculturaUMechanical Galiege
OF TEXAS,
College Station, Brazos Co., Tex.
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL SESSION WILL BE-
gin on. MONDAY, October 1. 1S33. The course
of instruction extends through three years, and is
specially adapted to the thorough practical train-
ing of young men in farming, horticulture, stock
raising, engineering, chemistry, mechanics, archi-
tecture. etc., and the sciences relating thereto.
Graduates for the last tw o years have without dif-
ficulty secured lucrative employment In these pur-
suits. Total expenses for nine months only $150.
For catalogues or special information, address
Pbof. H. H. DINWIDDLE.
Chairman of the Facultv.
SHENANDOAH ACADEMY
WINCHESTER, YA.
(Nineteenth year.) , Prepares for university,
army, navy or business.
C. L. q. MINOR, M. A., (Univ. Ya.) LL.P-
Southern Home School tor Girls.
197&199XT.Charles St.,Baltimore,Bid
Mrs. W. M. Cart, Miss Car*.
Established 184*2. French the language of the school.
Hampden sidney collegb.
princs Edward co., va.
The 103th Session wm begin on Thursday, Sept. G,
1883. For catalogue apply to the
REV. RICHARD McILWAINE. D. D„
President.
VIRGINIA FEMALE IM^TITUTE^
STAUNTON. VA.
ZYIrs.G-en. G-. E- B. STUART, Principal
The next session of Nine Months OPEN SEP-
TEMBER 13th, with a full corps of superior teach-
ers. Terms reasonable. Apply early. Catalogues
sent upon application to the Principal.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Special Notice—The Galveston Steam
Laundry is closed until it rains.
HITCHCOCK & McAVlNEY.
Notice to Csnaignoes—The steamship
LAMPASAS, Crowell, master, from New York, is
now discharging cargo at Willianit/s wharf.
Consignees will pieuse pay freight aud receive
their, goods as landed, receipting for the same oa
the wharf. All goods remaining on the wharf after
4 o'clock p. m. (not receipted for' mav, ai option of
steamer's agsnt. be placed in wairaaouse* or covur-
ed with tarpaulins on th« wharf, but they are en-
tirely at risk of consignee or owner. All claims for
damages must be adjusted before the good&lsave
the wharf. J. N. SAWYER, Agent.
Notice*—Carpenters and Painters: Bids to re-
pair the buildings at Prairie View Normal School,
and erect two new buildings, will be received until
the 20th of August. Plan aud specifications can be
seen on and after Monday, the 13th, at A. and M.
College. WM. P. HARDEMAN,
College Station.
NOTICE T0JMR4CI0IIS.
THE Commissioners Court of Johnson county,
Texas, will receive sealed proposals for the
BUILDING OF A COUNTY JAIL for said county,
in the CITY OF CLEBURNE, according to plans
and specifications, until noon of FRIDAY, the Tth
day of September, 1883.
The plans and specifications of the work are now
in the possession of A. N. Dawsou, of said city.
Parties bidding on iron anil steel work must ac-
company their proposals with full specifications of
their proposed work and samples ot material, and
must state in their proposals out of what class of
material the various parts of the work is to be
made; such samples to be deposited with the Com-
missioners Court, and all material used must be of
same quality as the samples designated for the
work. No payment will be made on the iron and
steel work until completed according to contract,
to be determined upon a thorough lest of the work,
made under direction of the Commissioners Court.
Specifications accompanying proposals for iron
and steel work may vary iu details to suit any par-
ticular system of prison work, but in general
arrangement must accord with plans on file. The
work will be paid for in cash, and with the excep-
tion of the iron and steel work, payments will be
made at the end of each mouth on estimates made
by superintendent in charge, twenty per cent, be-
ing retained until final completion aud acceptance
of the work. All work to be done under the sui»er-
vision of the superintendent, subject to the control
of the Commissioners Court. Bonds in tlie sum of
contract price, payable to Johnson county, properly
acknowledged, and certificate its to solvency of sure-
ties, will be required to be filed with bid of each
contractor for tlie performance of work to be done
by him. Proposals must be filed with the county
clerk by noon of September 7. 1883, o nd be indorsed
Proposals for building Johnson county jail." The
court reserves the right to reject any or all pro-
posals received. W. J. EWINGK
County Judge, Johnson county. Texas.
BYRNES & KERR,
SAN ANTONIO,
ROOFING & PAVING
Contractors and Manufacturers of
Mesquite Paving Blocks.
Rice, Baulard & Co.
PAINTS, OILS, GLASS,
WALL PAPER AND WIN-
DOW SHADES.
Agents for the well known
AVERlLL, CHEMICAL
READY IIIXED PAINTS.
VE STOJ>% TEXJS.
Galveston Paint Co.'s Liquid Paints.
The undersigned would call the attention of the
public to the face that they have recently com-
menced 11EHE IN GALVESTON the manufacture
of liquid PAINTS, both white and colored, of va-
rious tiuts; and they believe that they can furnish
a superior article at a price so low as it can be
bought at the North, thus saving freight and time,
aud in quantities to suit purchasers. We respect-
ful! v ask the patronage of the public. jas. w.
RICE, V. J. baulard, GEO. w. outterside,
C. C. BEMIS.
RADE MARK
A RE OF THE GREATEST TRANSPARENT
power to strengthen and improve the sight.
Hawkes1 book oa the use and abuse of spectacles,
containing prices, etc.. §eat to any address. No
peddlers employed. A. K. HAWlvES, Austiu, Tex.
gold
hipal
VifJCUS
ELIXIR
the three
Baylor University,
Independence, Texas.
Chartered 1845. Number of Students (male3
only), 120.
The next session will open September 1st and
continue forty weeks. For Catalogue address
wm. CAREY CRANE, President.
a?n%IlVl! LLJj imtUL
LEXINGTON, VA.
Instruction in the usual academic studies and in
the professional schools of
LAW AND ENGINEERING.
Location healthful; expenses moderate. Next ses-
sion opens Sept. s)0. For catalogues address ** Clerk
of the Faculty."
Gm W. Cm LSE President.
HOLLINS INSTITUTE,
BOTETOURT SPRINGS,
YIHGIXIA.
The fortieth session opened with full numbers
from fourteen different States and closed on the
20th of June with a brilliant oommencement.
The improvements announced one year ago have
been almost completed, and will, in a few weeks,
receive the flnishi»g touches.
The forty-first session will open on tbe 19th of
September, with facilities more ample and com-
plete than the school has commanded during its
continuous history of forty successful yeara.
Extensive literary courses are provided, covering
English Language, English Literature, History,
Latin, German, French. Mathematics, Natural
Science, Ethics. The departments of Music and
Art are fully equipped and conducted under the
best standards. The work in these departments
receives the highest encomiums from the best
judges.
The school is run with twenty (20) officers and
teachers. Girls and young ladies are received for
a single session or for the full period of school life,
including vacations. The locality enjoys the ad-
vantages of a mild mountain climate, valuable
medicinal waters and the most picturesque
scenery.
This school wholly disapproves and discards the
agency system for securing pupils. That system
too often places girls and boys in schools and
under influences of a very different type from those
preferred by their parents.
Postofflce, BOTETOURT SPRINGS, Va.
Depot, CLOUENDALE, Shenandoah Valley
Railroad.
Apply to CHAS. Xj. COCK13,
Su erintendant.
SUMMER RESORTS^
MRS. COX. 144 Madison avenue, New York, sum-
mer boarding; desirable rooms; moderate
charges; unnsually excellent table. t
HIRAM HITCHCOCK.
Formerly St. Charles
Hotel, New Orleans.
A. B. DARLING,
Formerly Battle
House, Mobile.
PARIS, 22, HUE EBOUGT.
NEW YQ8K: E. FGUSm f. C.lc
BALL1NGER & MOTT,
125 Po.tofile Str.et,
GALVESTON. TEXAS.
j7f. magale,
direct importer of
BRANDIES AND WX2T28,
And Wholesale Dealer iu
FINE B01RB0N, RYE AND RECTIFIED WHISKIES
OF ALL GRADES,
Buiiding. 63»nJ 65 Strand. Galveston. Tex.
All cask orders promptly tilled game as if parties
were here la person.
f\
Fifth Avenue Hole
Madison Square, New ITork-
The largest, best appointed and most liberally
managed hotel in the city, with the most central
and delightful location.
HITCHCOCK, DAHLING- CO.
40,003 JOKES Hi HUGO.
KNOWN AS THE
Manor Ranch.
Entitled to thirteen days water, sufficient to irri-
gate 10,000 acres.
640 acres now in cultivation, half in corn and
half in sugar cane.
For pasturage, cannot be surpassed.
One of the prettiest and healthiest spots in Mex-
ico.
Twenty-four hours ride by the Mexican-Pacific
extension from San Antonio; 75 miles fram Eagle
Pass; two miles from Santa Rosa. *
For sale or lease Apply to
J. H. FRENCH & CO.,
Real Estate Agents, San Antonio, T
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