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A. H. BELO & CO., Publishers.
CIRCULATION EQUAL
TO THAT OF ALL
the other daily press
OF THE STATE COMBINED.
Sunday, December 10, 1882.
President" s messages have become time-
honored, and that is about all that can be said
for them as a general mle.
A gallant reply was that of a husband who
was told by a lady in the presence of his wife
that his wife ^was spoiling him: '* She has a
right," he said, " to spoil what belongs entirely
to her.M
A polite little girl was shown a.set of play-
things and a doll and was asked which sho
would have? She looked at the doll, which
was a fine one, and then drawing her mother's
head down she whispered: " I would rather
have the playthings, but please don't tell the
doll." '
The general expressions on the subject of
the president's message are that it is some-
what tame—a wooden document in great part
—miscellaneous paragraphs and a synopsis of
departmental reports, a convenient way of
making a lon£ message. Well, what would
the critics have from the head of a machine
but a machine-made deliverance?
The Indianapolis Sentinel, a leading Demo-
cratic pape> in Indiana, says: " The Demo-
cratic party in taking possession of the next
House of Representatives must begin right,
but if it elects Mr. Randall speaker it will be-
gin wrong, and will commit a blunder which
may prove fatal to it in the campaign in 18S4.
Indiana will be found solid against Mr. Randall
and his policy."
Ex-Senator b« >bsmy is said to be practically
a ruined man—broken down mentally and
physically, his fortune depleted by unlucky
speculations, extravagant habits, aud an army
of attorneys drawing on him. If his money is
really gone the party will doubtless drop him.
Dorsey is, however, suspected of inspiring this
sort of talk. If he is not on the " kinchin lay'
he may be on the pity-inspiring lay.
While Mr. Blaine denounced as scandalous
the proposition to put $75,000,000 of govern-
ment money or credit into an inter-oceanic
canal, which he claims would become a feeder
to British commerce, Mr. Blaine will be re-
membered as one of the most distinguished ad-
vocates of a policy of subsidies and bounties
for steamships, and of a general maritime
policy which has destroyed American shipping
and given the carrying trade of the ocean into
the hands of British shippers.
The Cincinnati Enquirer's information from
Michigan is to the effect that Congressman
Hubbell (late firm of Hnbbell & Co.) is spend-
ing a great deal of money In his campaign for
Senator Ferry's seat. Money does not count
with the people, as Mr. Hubbell discovered re-
cently, and he proposes to try its magic upon a
State legislature. The Enquirer would not be
surprised if Mr. Hubbell met with more suc-
cess than he did on the 7th of November. State
legislatures, taking them as they come, have
respect for the American eagle only when they
find it stamped on money. It will be Michi-
gan's disgrace if Hubbell is elected to the Sen-
ate. Whence comes that money *
mi . "i
Lady Gertrude Douglass recently eloped
•with her brother's baker. The pair were mar-
ried. Then, of course, it became necessary
that they should make a living, for they are
"both poor. What should an honest man do
when he has a trade and a wife? Follow his
calling and ask no favors. The young couple
have opened a bakery. He bakes bread and
perhaps she sells it over the counter. Upper
tendom is horrified. Such is the effect of vi-
cious training under a monarchy and an aris-
tocracy that industry appeai-s to upper tendom
as shocking at least as vice, perhaps more
shocking—something like a crime.
The collection of internal revenue is a sub-
ject on which some of the party-leaders might
profitably employ their thoughts, so as to de-
vise a simpler and less expensive system. Mr.
Carlisle, of Kentucky, has been interviewed,
and appears to have the matter under ex-
amination. He is also perfectly sound in the
view that a revenue tariff can be made the
means of affording relief from some of the
present internal taxation, while it gives relief
from the burdens imposed by protection.
"This," he says, "is a fundamental tenet of
the revenue reform, and, together with con-
siderations relating to the natural rights of
individuals and the policy of promoting inter-
national exchanges, it constitutes the basis of
the great popular demand now being made for
a revision of the tariff laws."
in supplying railways either with material or
manufactured articles, will interest himself in
this matter, and that every deserving article
properly coming under the head of railway ap-
pliances may be creditably represented at this
exposition. All correspondence should be ad-
dressed to the secretary, at the Grand Pacific
Hotel, Chicago, III.
The News specials from Washington of late
show that the Commerce Committee will not
rest or allow the administration to rest upon
any partial and prejudiced view of the claims
of rivers and harbors. All the objections to
giving money to " improve " trout streams in
the interior of Northern or any other States
ought not to be permitted to prevent appro-
priations for needful river and harbor im-
provements. If there has been too much lump-
ing of good and bad, the separation must be-
gin with an exhibition of the wrong of
condemning necessary improvements by con-
tinuing an indiscriminating course as to mat-
ters that were at first improperly and indis-
criminately thr vwn together.
The Washington special to The News yes-
terday mentioned a rumor that if a Soothern
man is elected speaker of the next House of
Representatives at Washington, the Repub-
licans will make a sectional canvass for the
presidency. The Republicans may find no
ground for any other sort of canvass. Their
canvasses have been sectional all along, and
any excuse would be welcome for such a can-
vass by the stalwarts and Mr. Blaine too. There
is one Southern Congressman elect who might
be placed in the chair and defy the bloody
shirt element. That Congressman elect is
Hon. John Hancock, of Texas. The Texas
delegation will most likely support Mr. Car-
lisle in preference to Mr. Randall. It is pre-
sumed, however, if congressmen should not
agree on another choice, it is known that Mr.
Hancock possesses qualities which would ren-
der him as able a speaker as could be selected.
The Inter-Ocean assumes, as a matter of
course, that the Republicans will be met by an
obstructive minority in both houses during the
present session of Congress, but that they can
and should surmount all obstacles in the way
of the more important reformatory legislation
recommended. This is very pretty talk. The
Democrats are counted upon to blunder.
Leading Democrats are saying that there will
be no obstruction. The true policy will be to
say little, vote whenever the Republicans are
ready, and vote generally for measures of
economy, but for all needful appiopriations.
Let the Republicans finish making the record
of the present Congress. Of course a vote
against any Republican measure will not be
obstructive. Talking may be made obstruc-
tive; dilatory motions are obstructive. It is
hoped that the Democrats have Jearued wisdom
in this respect. If there are to bo caucuses
they ought to take in hand such members as
may be disposed to betray the party by indis-
creet conduct. There may be disappointed De-
mocrats w4jo will undertake to do this to serve
the Republicans. It is to such men that party
discipline is properly applicable at present.
A correspondent of The News writes from
Burnet county to ask whether the Democrats
have had a majority in Congress since the
war. They have. They carried the country
when Mr. Tilden was elected president. They
consented to the eight-to-seven commission
which counted Mr. Hayes in, when they could
have counted Mr. Tilden in had not the Re-
publicans in a measure bulldozed the Demo-
crats by threats that a partisan president of
the Senate would count the presidential vote
" in the presence of the Houses," but without
the Houses participating except as spectators,
and that the Republican party would resort to
revolution if necessary. The further history
of Democratic legislation under a Republican
president imposed upon the country is the his-
tory of Mr. Hayes's term of office. The par-
ties have been nearly balanced since. Mr.
Bayard was made president of the Senate for
a day or two, but displaced to give way for
Mr. Davis, the present president pro tem.,
when the Democrats lost their majority in the
Senate last time.
An able plea for the permanent organization
of the signal corps of the government has
reached The News from Wasliington. It
gives abundant evidence of the great value of
the institution in saving life" and property, as
demonstrated by its past work. Millions of
dollars' worth of cargoes have been kept in
port through warnings of cyclones. In 1881
there were 2231 cautionary signals ordered, 83
per cent, of which were correct. Numerous
strongly favorable opinions by emi-
nent men are quoted, who think the
service ought to be maintained.
As General Grant said, " it has now become a
necessity of peace as well as of war." Bills are
before the Senate and House to increase the ef-
ficiency of the corps.
Effie Sturlata. known as Sturla, was
placed on the witness stand, in Chicago, and
testified to the long course of cruelty with
which she was treated l>j young Stiles, who
she finally shot and killed in her delirium,
when he had taken all her m ley and cast her
off. Her story moved the co . rt, bar and spec-
tators. When she came to the climax of her
griefs and said she wandered and saw ghosts
and goblins and then—"and—then—I knew
that I had killed him!"—she shrinked again
with the horror of the thought, for she had en-
dured every indignity from her remorseless
master; and she rose and fell down in a death-
ly swoon. It was no acting. The surgeons
state that her pulse had ceased to beat as she
lay cold and pale as death on the table to which
she was carried. The case is exciting intense
interest.
The New York Times vindicates Robeson
and the American navy by remarking that
owing to the peculiar difficulty of steering the
monitors, and their general unseaworthiness,
they would, if captured by a foreign enemy,
sink his fleet and drown the prize crews put on
board them. If we had iron-clads in every re-
spect the equals of the English iron-clads it is
very improbable that any one of them would
be able to sink more than two or three hostile
ships. Whereas, should England send against
ns say forty first-class vessels, it would only be
necessary for us to permit them to capture five
monitors in order to render it morally certain
that thirty-five British ships would be ran
down. This is the purpose for which Mr.
Robeson built his monitors, and to call them
failures is an insult as well as an injustice to
that great statesman and spotless patriot.
The estimate of Bradstreet's, printed yes-
terday morning, that the cotton crop of this sea-
son would not exceed 6,500,000 bales, caused
quite a ripple of excitement among cotton men
in Galveston, and they proffered bets to New
Orleans and New York to the extent of $,1000
that the crop would be in excess of the estimate.
The New Orleans correspondents who were tel-
egraphed responded: " We can not place the
l>et; they offer here to wager on G,$00,000,"
and the reply received from New York was as
follows: "Latest bets here have bsen*made
on a crop of 6,750,000, and over." This would
seem to indicate, despite the telegraphed re-
ports from Liverpool saying "the present
American receipts do not wai rant extravagant
crop estimates," that there are a large number
of persons interested in cotton, and usually
keeping tolerably well posted, who expect the
crop totoiicn nearly 7,000,000 bales.
That objectionable word "exposition," which
is the French for " exhibition," appears to be
having a run of favor. Will those who so use
it ever come to " exposea corresponding par-
tiality for the word "expositor" instead of
"exhibitor?" It has not come to that yet.
Exhibitions are useful, call them what people
wilL The commissioners who are arranging
for a National Exposition of Railway Appli-
ances, are prominent men of the Northern
States, under the lead of Hon. L. Fairchild,
ex-governor of Wisconsin. Their undertaking
is welcomed throughout the country as a de-
sirable enterprise. The Inter-State Exposition
buildings, located near the business center of
the city of Chicago, on the shore of Lake Michi
gan, and convenient to the depots of the vari-
ous railways, have been secured. The Expo-
sition will open on or about May 31, and close
on o* about July 7, 1883, and the time for pre-
jjreparation being thus limited, it is important
that all who intend making exhibits shall be-
gin necessary preparations at once. It is hoped
by the commissioners that every one interested
church and the Franco-German empire the
germs of civilization were almost stewed out
of Europe, and a seething mass of barbarism
and anarchy threatened to make desolation
complete and irremediable. Turkey is a
modern example of the policy of leaving peo-
ple and things that are within themselves hope-
lessly amiss to stew in their own juice. By
the jealousies of the great powers of Europe
for a number of years the organized misery of
stewing in their own juice and perishing by
piece-meal has been the fate of Turkey and her
unhappy populations. Now and then this
misery "becomes too acute and too exasperating
for the maintenance of the let-alone policy,
and then war ensues, and the whole
of Europe is liable to be swept
with a deluge of iron and blood.
In this country the spirit of the let-alone»policy
tends more especially to paralyze government
with respect to some of the profoundest and
most urgent problems of reform. But the peo-
ple of the United States can not afford to leave
the abuses, and the immediate authors aud im-
mediate victims of the abuses, to which these
problems of reform relate, to stew forever in
their own juice. The peace of the country and
the safety of the republic forbid. Some terri-
ble convulsion and disastrous catastrophe
would be sure to result at length from utter
persistence in such a let-alone policy.
STEWING IN THEIR OWN JUICE.
Some of the English journals, and notably
the Pall Mall Gazette and the Spectator, are
engaged iu a spirited discussion over the meta-
phorical significance and political application
of the phrase " stewing in their own grease."
Lord Salisbury professed to be greatly shocked
fcit the cynicism of the phrase when used to in-
dicate the desire of the Gladstone government
to turn Egypt over to the Egyptians, and leave
them to worry with their local troubles and
work out their own salvation, or perdition, as
the case might be, in their own way. The
Spectator, concurring with Lord Salisbury,
says that it describes an Egyptian policy,
which is at once impracticable and immoral.
On the other hand, the Pall Mall Gazette con-
tends that the phrase, as far as it serves to
illustrate the wishes or purposes of the govern-
ment with respect to Egypt, is only an ex-
pression of the general doctrine of non-inter-
vention, and the principle that communities
and classes are most likely to arrive at
a happy adjustment of the troubles
which immediately concern them, if
they are allowed to adjust these
troubles in their own time, at their own con-
venience, and according to customs and meth-
ods of their own. It may be said, then, that
the simple and familiar French phrases for the
let-alone policy—laissez faire, laissez passer—
have their more graphic than elegant counter-
part in such English phrases as let them stew
in their own juice, let them fry in their own
grease. Like all rules and maxims for guid-
ance in human affairs, the let-alone policy
must be judged according to circumstances.
It is never safe to accept and maintain in the
absolute sense the let-alone policy or its oppo-
site, the interference policy. One or the other
in certain circumstances may be wise, just and
essentially good. One or the other in certain
circumstances may be unwise, unjust and es-
sentially pernicious. The American people
and their statesmen have been prone to abuse
both policies. Evidences of such abuse con-
front us in all directions. And nothing in the
nature of such abuse has been so discouraging
for practical reform as a disposition to let men
and things alone—to let them stew in their
own juice—where conditions are palpably
wrong and hurtful, out of fear of investing
governmant with too paternal and positive a
character, after government, as a paternal
and positive force, has been largely or
wholly instrumental in bringing about these
very conditions. This is not so much the
cynical as the lazy and cowardly side of the
conservatism which the analytic eye of Herbert
Spencer noted as so remarkable a trait of the
American people. Mr. Spencer saw nothing
so ominous for the future of the country as the
development of this conservatism in a patient
alac^ty to put up with mismanagement in gov-
ernment, with corruption in politics, and with
the growth of giant monopolies and pestilential
distempers in trade. The indolence which
feels submission to wrongs and evils to be less
irksome than the labor of reform, finds justifi-
cation in the let-alone school of politics, whose
ideal of statesmanship is a masterly negation—
something like the nirvana of the Buddnist
'•eligion, whose saints arrived at perfection and
final rest in absolute relinquishment of all
desire and effort. All the devils, all the mate-
rialized spirits of evil in this world, are ready
to rise up and bless and glorify the reign
among men, and amidst all the ramifications
and complications of human affairs, of a
sainted statesmanship of this description.
The great trouble with the let-alone policy is
that when the good people practice it the bad
people refuse to reciprocate it. The good peo-
ple would be happy indeed if the bad people
would let them alone. But, as the case actually
is, the first step of the bad people in active and
concrete wickedness is to interfere wrongfully
and hurtfully with the good people, and this
interference becomes the more aggravated the
more the good people abstain from offensive-
defensive measures of interference with the
bad people. If the bad people would only de-
sist the good people could afford to abstain,
ani would, of course, gladly do so. The ques-
tion of such abstinence is similar to the ques-
tion of abolishing capital punishment, as stated
by Alphonse Karr. He had not the leas!, ob-
jection to the measure if the honorable assas-
sins would first set the example by ceasing to
kill. The fact is that if the let-alone policy in
an absolute, and not a strictly conditional,
sense as to circumstances and relations, were
based upon a sound practical philosophy, there
would be no use whatever for government as
an established organic agent of civilization.
But all history attests the vital importance of
this agent to civilization as indispensable alike
to its conservation and its progress. By in-
duction and deduction we are brought to this
conclusion, that, stated comprehensively and
most simply, the first and final purpose of gov
eminent is to conserve civilization and pro-
mote its progress by aggressive and repressive
interference with classes of people given to be-
ing in stews, but who could not be left to stew
in their own juice without danger to the gen-
eral peace and decided detriment to the gen-
eral welfare There was some illustration on
quite a large scale of what is to be expected
from a universal practice of letting everybody
and everything stew in their own juice after
the downfall of the Roman Empire. Before
the process was interrupted by the
interfering and regulating power of the
ST. LOUIS AND SAN F HAN CISCO RAIL-
ROAD.
Something less than a year ago, it may be
remembered, great hopes were entertained
that the St. Louis aud San Francisco railroad
would be enabled shortly to complete its con-
nections, passing through the Indian Terri-
tory to a junotiou with the railway system of
Texas in the neighborhood of Paris, in this
State. Suddenly it was announced that Mr.
Gould had succeeded to a controlling interest
in the road, and that the work toward Texas
would stop at Van Buren, Ark. The reason as-
signed for this move was that the St. Louis
and San Francisco road, under its then man-
agement, would be a competitor with the
Gould system leading to and from Texas, giv-
ing to the independent roads in the State an
Eastern connection over other than the Mis-
souri-Pacific and St. Louis and Iron Mountain
railroads. At all events, work ceased in con-
sequence, and interest in Texas flagged in the
enterprise. It now appears, however, that
while Mr. Gould obtained a certain interest in
the St. Louis and San Francisco at that time,
it was not a controlling one, and again the
question of extension from Van Buren to
Paris, Texas, is mooted from different quar-
ters. A special dispatch from New York, pub-
lished this morning, gives the assurance that
the managem mt and ownership of the road in
question is the very best in the country and
that the enterprise is to be pressed
forward. Another special from Dallas
to The News gives at some length
the current opinion in that city
relative to the matter, with details of manage-
ment and organization and the purposes of
the enterprise. The News may state, in this
connection, that the matter in both dispatches
originated from sources of good authority. It
is learned by The News from another excel-
lent source that the St. Louis and San Fran-
cisco road has complied with the requirements
of the act of Congress, of August 2,1S82, grant-
ing right of way to that road through the In-
dian Territory, on condition that the company
lile with the secretary of the interior a certified
copy of a resolution of the board of directors
accepting the grant within ninety days, and
then within thirty days thereafter filing a map
of their line through the Territory. Under the
act of Congress alluded to the company now
has one year within which to file with
the secretary of the interior a map of
their located line, and two years from
the 15th of November of this year to
build their road through the Indian Territory.
It is learned, further, that the St. Louis and
San Francisco road is now building its own
line from Pacific station, on the Missouri-Pa-
cific road (the track of which it is now using),
thirty-four miles to St. Louis, which, when
completed, will give the road a free swing
from St. Louis to Van Buren. The road has
two years from the 15th of November last to
complete its route through the Territory to
Paris, Texas, and it is assumed that before this
limit expires the St. Louis and San Francisco
railroad will have formed a junction with the
railway system of this State. The successful
completion of this enterprise to a connection
with the Texas railway system is of great con-
sequence. The Houston and Texas Central
railroad is extending a branch of its
line to Paris, where it expects to
connect with this newcomer. The Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe, having succeeded to
the ownership and franchises of the Chicago,
Texas and Mexican Central railroad, may
carry out the original intention of the latter
enterprise, and extend the line from Dallas to
Paris. It is understood that right of way
grants and other considerations were made to
the Mexican Central, which the management
of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe can use
and take advantage of, if deemed desirable.
It is inferred—although The News has no of-
ficial assurances upon the subject—that the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe will prove itself
equal to the occasion. If the St. Louis and
San Francisco railroad succeeds in making its
connections across the Territory in this direc-
tion, the chances are that it will find at Paris,
on reaching there, two very important feeders
in the Houston and Texas Central and the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe.
their rulers. Thus endeth the first chap-
ter. The second chapter begins whero
the first ends. The people multiplied and the
wise men said it was because they had a mo-
nopoly spring, for since they had a monopoly
spring it was noticed that the population in-
creased. Then certain men said: " The water
in the spring is scarcely sufficient. Let us go
outside and get water." They did not dare to
say: " Let us take the gate off its hinges, and
let the people go to the river for water." They
merely said: " Let us go a little way outside
the walls, where there is a duck-pond and a lit-
tle trickling spring called the spring of Ha-
waii." And the council sanctioned such free-
dom. Then another man, a cousin of Dives,
secured the duck-pond and the little spring,
and sold water to tho town at only one-tenth
of one picayune per quart less than Dives.
And Dives had to " see " his cousin. And sun-
dry men were accused of bringing water from
the river and putting it in barrels hard-by the
duck-pond of Hawaii and selling it to the city
as if it had been taken from the spring
of Hawaii, and this was declared to be
a crime because it interfered with
the profits of Dives. And the agents of Dives,
especially his journal, the Picayune, said let
us have done with bringing water from the
little spring of Hawaii, because evil men bring
in water from the river. Thus ended the
second chapter. And the third chapter began
before the second chapter was finished, for the
voice of a multitude was heard crying:
"Water, water; we are tired of making one
man rich by useless sacrifices. If we can not
have enough water from the spring at the cost
of drawing it, we will go to the river 1" And
the counoilmen and Dives were afraid of the
people; and the people went to the river. And
thereafter the spring continued to flow, and
Div&s was content to let the people
draw water for a nominal consideration. It
was a convenience, being nearer than the
river, and therefore the people continued to
use spring-water; but they turned out the un-
faithful or stupid councilmen and elected anti-
monopoly councilmen, and these decreed that
the gates of the city 6hould remain open, that
the people might go to the river, if they found
it necessary through any trouble with Dives
about the spring. And Dives was a man of
sense, and said to himself: " Behold, the peo-
ple are aroused; I had better yield before this
thing goes too far, or tho people will per-
haps inquire how I came to own the spring,
and they might arise in their fury and take the
spring away from me and slay me; for I don't
more than half know the temper of this peo-
ple." And it was settled as nearly right as
things generally get settled in this world.
MONOPOLY OF NECESSARIES.
The treaty with Hawaii fosters commercial
relations which, in the opinion of President
Arthur, "it is important to preserve." In
other words, the importations of sugar and
rice from the Sandwich islands are in the mil-
lions of dollars worth. They are valued at
considerably more than the export of mer-
chandise to those islands. A concentration of
California capital in the islands makes a
monopoly much similar to the monopolies in
oil and some other artioles in this country.
The New Orleans Picayune wants the treaty
repealed in the interest of Louisiana sugar-
growers and of rice planters. It refers again
to the allegation, which is probably true, that
Chinese rice is brought into this country by
way of Hawaii and it does not stop at argu-
ment, but exclaims fraud and infamy! not
merely as to suoh rice importation but as to
the whole treaty. It is evident from a view
of the facts that the American people are get-
ting from Ha wai and from China a quantity
of useful products which the Picayune would
prefer to exclude—that the Picayune would
be glad to cut off from America £
market for $3,272,172 of wares an
nuaily which are paid for in products
from abroad of much greater nominal
value. This the Picayune would do in the in-
terest of a class. The interest of the general
public does not appear to be worthy of the
Picayune's consideration. It is all for the
sugar and rice planter's special interest.
Wherein is their monopoly more respectable
than that of the Californians who control the
Hawaiian trade? To take a more general view
of this subject, it seems obvious that the reme
dy for such monopoly as has sprung up in
Hawaii and California is the same as the reme-
dy proposed for trade monopoly in general
namely, to open the door of trade wider—so
wide that no single individual can place his
bloated form in the opening and control in-
gress and egress. This country is now liable
to invasion by the pauper labor of the
world pretty generally. Why not de-
stroy monopoly as far as possible by
letting ail the world bring its wares
to our markets with as little impediment
as possible? The News again submits that
such is the way to counteract the schemes of
trade monopolists, whether at home in Pennsyl-
vania, Louisiana or California, or whether ex-
tending their grasp to a few small islands in the
Pacific. They can not corner the world. Here
is a story whiGh, if not found in any story-book,
is strictly true: There was once a town built
near a river. A single spring afforded water
for the town. A rich man named Dives cast
his eye upon the spring and said: " It is a good
thing if I can work it right." Then he put his
paid agents at werk among the people and had
councilmen elected who were his friends. And
they said: " Behold, we can add to the wealth
of this town. Water is now free; therefore it
has no value. If even the spring belonged to
one man, the people could go to the
river and draw water. We will change
all that. We will make water more
valuable." Then they built a wall around tho
town and decreed that no one should bring
water from the river. Tho rich man paid four
picayunes per acre for the spring and its
course to the nethermost side of the city. Then
he charged the people one-half picayune per
quart for the water and had all the cows ban-
ished to prevent milk from competing with bis
protected spring water. The people were also
forbidden to build cisterns or dig wells. The
councilmen were treated to several bottles of
champagne by monopolist Dives, whose pica-
yunes were many. Aud the Picayune with a
big P was his organ. And the councilmen said:
" We have increased the wealth of this city,
because whereas the spring was formerly worth
nothing by reason of the free access to other
water, now the spring yields so-and-so many
thousand cash per diem, and is estimated at a
corresponding value in millions." And for a
time the people bore the burden, complaining,
wondering, but submitting to the wisdom of
THE STOCKMEN AND THE SCHOOL
LANDS.
The Colorado Clipper, championing the in-
terests of stockmen in the northwestern part
of the State, advocates the lease system as
preferable to tho sale of the public school lands.
These lands, the Clipper says, are occupied, if
at all, by stockmen who, fearing they will be
purchased by speculators, are looking to Mex-
ico for lsw pastures for their herds. Inasmuch
as the school lands are sold so cheap as to at-
tract the notice of greedy speculators, and as
they are sold on twenty years credit, it would
seem as if the owners of the herds could also
become purchasers. The truth is the owner-
ship of the school lands, whether in the State
or in speculators, ought to make no difference
in their uses. If the State can afford to lease
them at $10 per section, the price mentioned
by the Clipper, the speculator could also. The
use of these lands ought to be worth as much
to the State as it is to any other lessor. If the
law had for years permitted them only to be
leased and had wholly withdrawn them
from the market, there would now be
no competition for use or ownership,
and the rent would have never advanced cor-
respondingly with the advance in the prices of
contiguous lands. If speculators purchased
these lands from under present holders now
using them without payment of rent, the
Clipper fears the latter would move their herds
to Mexico where, it is presumed, lands are
cheaper. Does the lease system prevail in
Mexico? Is not that country overrun with land
speculators, purchasing haciendas, ranches
and mines I Is there any spot on this conti-
nent where the American speculator is un-
known, and where the primitive cow-man can
possess the land as he has for half a century in
Texas without payment for its use? Would
not the ranchero be compelled to purchase the
land he uses in Mexico? Again, if the Texas
cattleman should remove his herds upon the
purchase of the school lands he has held,
would not the purchasers be obliged to utilize
them by stocking them with cattle and sheep,
or by lease to others who would stock them ? Is
not the argument of the Clipper a special plea
for the ranchmen, who are at last brought face
to face with competition for the use or owner-
ship of lands so long used gratuitously?
This is one side of the question be-
tween the holders of the school lands and the
speculators who propose to pay the school fund
for the lands. These two parties are, neither
of them, disposed to make any very liberal
contributions to the school fund. They are
both able to take care of themselves. If the
speculators have spied out these lands, and,
with greedy intent, desire to monopolize them,
they find another class already in possession,
who control larger means than any other class
in Texas, and who are fully able to retain their
possessions, whether required to purchase or
lease them. Then the State will not, by any
policy, be able to run these cattlemen off to
Mexico, but it may be able to spur them up to
a higher appreciation of the value of the free
pasturage they have so long used. The cattle-
men are enterprising and industrious; they
have the right to a preference over non-
resident speculators when it comes to the dis-
position of the school lands; they use the lands
for a legitimate and worthy purpose; but the
State, as trustee for the school fund, is bound
to do the best for the public and the schools in
the disposition of the property, and without
reference to private interests. If the specula-
tors are willing to pay more for the lands than
the raucheros, they will get them, whether they
be sold or leased. If they can not get
possession of the lands by outbid-
ding the present users of them, whether
sold or leased, it is because the
users propose a law of sale or of lease that will
give them possessions below their market
value, or because they propose to be a law
unto themselves and hold the pasturage by
force of arms. Cattle companies, consisting
of speculators, resident and non-resident, or-
ganizing almost daily, are going into the
stock-raising business in Texas, and no lease
law or any other legal contrivance can be in-
stituted that will prevent the competition they
have opened up for the possession of pastur-
age. This fact had as well be accepted by all
parties concerned, so that no further time or
money be lost in the useless endeavor to legis-
late in the interest of classes that propose to
advance special claims for consideration.
the waste of time and money on some popular
amusements and games of chance:
Experience is said to be the best teacher, and her
lessons are often told in 9uch forcible terms that
they last us a life-time. Nine gamblers in ten loose
all and gain nothing by their profession; yet the
saddest experience rails utterly to lead many sport-
ing men from the error of their dangerous ways,
and they drag out unsatisfactory lives. Lotteries
are arranged by the managers with an eye single to
their own interests. They are literally the Same
thing over asrain; that is to say, 1000 persons nay in
$10 each, making $10,000 paid in, and one of them
draws out $o0, perhaps, leaving for the sharks
$0350.
And so on, the Pilot goes over a list of popu-
lar frauds and delusions under which people
part with their honest gains and contract
habit3 of idleness and dissipation, to end in
poverty, want and the loss of self-respect and
the respect of others, ending with the sad re-
flection that experience and common sense
teach a great many people but little.
The Laredo Times speaks as follows of this
prevailing practice of criticising the utterances
of newspapers:
There are some persons in every community
who are intolerant of the opinions of others, and
particularly of tnoseof a newspaper. Many per-
sons seem to think that an editor has no right to
an opinion of his own; that he must advocate only
the opinions of one party or the other or their
recognized leaders, notwithstanding the fact that
their opinions, if carried into action, militate
against the public weal. No single individual is
more interested in the growth and welfare of the
community in which he may be located than the
journalist; no oaa gives nxor » his time, his ener-
gies, and his means for the b. . fit of his vicinage
than he, and it is to be regretted that the voice of
the temporal watchman upon the walls of the
city Is uot oftenei- heeded.
This is not the fault of the press. An intel-
ligent editor invites the scrutiny of his readers.
If be furnishes them with useful themes for
thought he accomplishes much, and there is
less danger in the investigation of what he
says than a blind acceptance of his suggestions.
The Brenham Banner gives a fact charac-
teristic of the way in which hundreds, not to
say thousands of young colored hoodlums are
allowed to escape punishment and reformation:
A large amount of petty thieving is continually
going on, and but few cases are reported. The latest
Was that of a fourteen-year-old coon breaking into a
trunk at a boarding-houso and stealing $1 50. He
was at once " fired out," and agreeing to leave
town forthwith, he was not prosecuted. Such pros-
ecutions are usually tedious, and put the prosecu-
tor to considerable annoyance and trouble, and the
county to expense for no good. In such cases
the whipping-post would prove effective, speedy
and eheap.
The Richmond Nation alludes to the lack of
variety in the topics discussed by Texas papers
as follows:
Whenever an editor can not find anything else to
write about, he takes up his pen and writes, Mexico
is about to lay claim to Galveston island.
The Mexican claim is not the only one which
claims the attention of such papers. The men-
tion of the name of Galveston in any connec-
tion is enough to cause the repetition of their
stereotyped denunciation of the city. The
want of thought in every way crops out in this
abuse of Galveston without cause.
The Fort Worth Democrat remarks:
It does not pay to establish or advertise a gift
enterprise, beside the party is liable to be sent up
for six months, and cau be sent for five years.
This is one of the many laws which is allowed
to sleep, and will soon be regarded as obsolete
if judges and State's attorneys do not call the
attention of grand juries to its provisions,
i h s is but one of the many laws of the State
that is ignored by those whose special duty it is
to observe and enforce it. The Bryan Pilot
calls serious attention to the utter disregard of
some of the provisions of the election laws and
the additional crime of pel jury which often
follows the violation. Under the constitution
all officers are required to take an oath that
they "have not, directly nor indirectly, paid,
offered or promised to pay, contributed nor
promised to contribute, any money or valuable
thing, or promised any public office or em-
ployment, as a reward for the giving or with-
holding a vote." The Pilot thinks one-half of
the officers just installed in the State, at least
2000 in all, have committed perjury in sub-
scribing this oath, and gives the following as
among the ways of violating the law, beside
the more direct and obvious modes of so doing:
The practice of contributing liberally to churches
or other charities just before election time: of
using cigars, whisky or any other valuable thing,
directly or Indirectly, for the purpose of influenc-
ing a person in giving or withholding his vote—
these things seem to be included in the strong lan-
guage of the oath. Whether these things, or any
other valuable things have been contributed, given
or promised as a reward for votes or influence,
by candidates who have fhe oath to take, we do
not certainly know; but we believe, as above stated,
that one-half of the officers recently chosen in
Texas have done this thing.
Some day Texas may have a moral spasm
like that under which New York is now suffer-
ing, and these long neglected laws, which are
not dead, but only sleeping, may come forth
from the grave like Lazarus. In New York the
obsolete laws that have been resurrected are
quite as odious as any of the contemned statutes
of Texas. They include puritanical Sunday
laws, which are now being enforced at the
peril of the public peaee. In the cities of New
York and Brooklyn, last week, the police gave
notice to barbel's, proprietors of printing
establishments, and others, that the provisions
of the code would be strictly enforced:
The acts forbidden, as described In section 2G2,
are servile labor, public sports and shows, trades,
manufactures or mechanical employment, public
traffic, serving process, none of which are to be in-
dulged in " except in a work of necessity or cheri-
ty." Under the heading of public sports, the code
makes unlawful all shooting, hunting, fishing, play-
ing, horse-racing, gaming, or other public snorts,
exercises, pastimes, or ' hows.
STATE PRESS.
"Wbat tho Interior Papers Say>
The Dallas Times continues its antics against
Galveston "like an augry a—"animal of a
genus of quadrumana, without a tail, which is
described by naturalists as liyely, full of frolic,
chatter and mischief. The question as to the meat
eaten by Caesar that made him grow so great
was never answered; but what puts the Times
into such a fat and kicking condition is proba-
bly the 18-pound sweet potato which it lately
received from Mr. W. -A. D. Adams. It is
natural for the Times to feel puffed up on such
a diet, and to assume offensive airs toward its
small potato neighbors.
The Austin Statesman refers to the revival
in New York of the old laws against gambling,
lotteries, etc., which are especially severe, and if
enforced there will be consternation in clubs and
lottery policy offices, and notes the fact that
while all kinds of petty gambling are made
criminal offenses, there is nothing said about
the immensely worse kinds of gambling in'
stocks, provisions and everything that is dealt
with largely in business circles. The gam-
bling instinct was never more ripe than at
present. It pervades all branches of business
and seems to be the passion of the times.
The Cleburne Chronicle thinks the present
public school System is wholly inefficient and
results in squandering much money without
adequate results, and hopes the legislature will
find means to improve the system. The Chro-
nicle thinks the constitution should be changed
so as to allow the collection of a school tax, in-
dependent of the general State tax. The
Chronicle deprecates the want of education,
and refers to the fact that 13 per cent, of its
white population can not read and write. An-
other paper says:
Seventy-five per cent, of the colored population
of the State of Texas can not read, yet the) are
voters aud elect legislators to make lav*s to govern
the State.
The Brenham Banner, in summing up the
results of the late election in Washington
county, says:
Several counties are boasting of their colored
officials. Washington county—thanks to the white
men who voted for them—boasts of two colored
commissioners, two colored constables, a colored
district clerk and a colored representative. The
white Republican office-seekers are unable to get
into office by white votes, and they are compelled
to form an alliance with their colored friends and
by helping colored men into office, that in most in-
stances they are unfitted to filL, they are enabled to
get into office themselves. The result is, no money
in the treasury, not a first-class bridge in the comi-
ty. a court-house that is tumbling down from nat-
ural decay, the county in debt, and county scrip
selling at 70 to 75 cents on the dollar.
The Bryan Pilot makes some reflections on
OVER THE STATE.
Arrival in Houston of Xffessrs* Crocker
and Poirce-Mr- Crocker on Galveston
—The Mexican Extension—The Lat-
est Regarding-tho Now Southern Pa-
cific Route-
ISpccial Correspondence of The News.l
Houston, December 9,1&S2.—A special train of
three cars, carrying Colonel T. W. Pierce, Mr.
Charles Crocker, Mr. Spofford and General
Butterfield, reached Houston last night and
was side-tracked till this morning at 8:30
o'clock, when it moved westward to San Aa-
tonio. After a brief delay there, the party,
joined at Houston by James Converse, will
proceed to the point where tho Sunset and
Southern Pacific railways will meet by Janu-
ary 1. There are three or four miles yet to
iron, mostly bridging, and then the cities of
San Francisco and Galveston will be united by
continuous rail, iu distance 2155 miles. Mr. C.
P. Huntingdon is not with the party. • He ac-
companied them as far as Memphis and re-
turned to New York. *
Messrs. Crocker and Peirce were called on at
their train, in the yard of the Sunset railway,
this morning aud at odd moments, while con-
ferring with their subordinates aud sending
telegrams, were found in a pleasant mood and
courteously inclined to answer questions re-
garding the great railway project which they
represent and are bringing to such a successful
issue—consummating au event which is a
fitting epoch for the closing days of 1S82.
The News recognizing the importance of
the visit of these geutlemen to Texas at any
time, but particularly now, is glad to record
the remarks of the noted railway builder, own-
er and manager, which follow:
Mr. Crocker was asked what the special ol>-
ject of his visit was, and he replied that his
interests in the Southern Pacific route had
brought him to Texas before, and was re-
sponsible for his being here now. Said he: I
was in Galveston during one of my trips, and
saw the place fully.
" You wiil not be there this trip? "
"No. We go west, aud across the country,
to California. But, sir, if you would know how
I feel regarding Galveston, let me say that for
your complete future you will only need deep
water. If I was autocrat of Texas I would
spend $10,000,000 if it were needed—and it is
not—to secure deep water."
" Do you speak thus enthusiastically from an
interested standpoint as a Southern Pacific
railway man?"
" It stands to reason we, who are completing
this great Southern thoroughfare, feel directly
interested in anything that has a tendency to
better the facilities of railway transportation.
Of course, we can go to New Orleans for a sea
outlet, but if your port can give us deep water
it Would be an outlet for us. Galveston is 341
miles nearer deep water and 400 miles nearer
the deep sea than New Orleans, and is the nat-
ural seaport for all this vast and growing State
of yours. They talk of railways discriminating
against cities. W e railway people have to
haul freight as it is billed. It stands to reason
you are at Galveston situated as the natural
outlet for the Pacific slope. Indeed,
you should draw on Oregon and the
territories. There was a time when trade
must go East to West, and vice versa. All
things pointed to New York. Now we are
showing that great lines of traffic may tend
southward and seek Southern outlets. Trade
relations are changing to accommodate 9imply
the great increase of the countryrs productions.
The vast growth of the Southwest is a marvel
and must be met with facilities."
il What of the "extension of the road you are
projecting toward Mexico from Eagle Pass!"
44 It will be pushed right along. The con-
tract for grading has beau let and steel rails
contracted for."
44 There will be no delays, then?"
44 None."
The party were desirous of hurrying on to
the front. The above points were chiefly given
while the last summons of the train manager
were sounding "all aboard" around the depot.
Mr. Crocker, who is so prominently identi-
fied with the Southern Pacific road, has been
famous for years as the builder of some two
thousand miles of railway, including the Cen-
tral Pacific. He is a person of great energy
aud executive force, and presents the appear-
ance of being an excellent representative of
the pioneer of the Pacific Slope.
Mr. Peirce, en being accosted for his views,
referred The News man to Mr. Crocker, wno,
he *aid, would Lest do the talking.
Mr. Converse could only say the progress of
the work was satisfactory, all things consid-
ered, and the Mexican extension from Eu^le
Pass would be pushed forward.
Though not learned from any of the party,
it is nevertheless noised at>out as a fact that
Mr. Towne, a very well-known railwayman,
is to be made general manager of the Sunset
and Southern Pacific route. Air. Converse Wiii
have direction and sole charge of the Mexican
extension, which now tako* rault as one of the
great railroad enterprises of the da>.
OVER THE STATE.
TRANSiUTTED BY WIRE BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
DALLAS.
Acquitted—3KEanufactory Attached—
St. Ifouia and San Francisco Rail-
road Extension—Marriage Licenses
and Heal Estate Transfers—Free
Bridge—Thieves Captured—Deaths—
Prisoners Transferred.
[Special Telegram to The News.l
Dallas, December 9.—In the United States Cir-
ouit and District Court this morning J. M. Dixon,
ex-postmatter of Ennis, was tried for embezzle-
ment, and acquitted.
The United States marshal has seized the Dallas
car and agricultural implement works, to satisfy
an attachment for $3405 in favor of the L. M. Rura-
sey Manufacturing company, of St. Louis.
Parties here from Paris confirm the report that
the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad will begin
building toward Texas in a short time Mr. Sam
Wright, of Paris, has received a letter from Mr. C.
W. Rogers, vice-presluent and general manager of
the road, stating that 1000 laborers would be nut to
work building the road from Van Buren, Ask., to-
ward Paris by the 15th of this month. Shortly
after the 1st of January construction will begin
from the Paris end, and the road built from there
to Golden Bluff, on the Red river, where
a bridge across the river will be built
by the samo force operating from the
Paris end. The force operating from the Van
Buren end will construct the balance of the road.
The distance from Van Buren to Paris is about
1'iO miles, and it is confidently evpected
that the road will be finished and in
running order from St. Louis to Paris before the
end of next year It is now open to Van Buren.
Mr. Huntington is generally credited with having
a controlling interest in the St Louis and San Fran-
cisco, and Mr. Gould has four out of the thirteen
directors. For a long time the road was controlled
by the same Boston syndicate now controlling the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. but recent manip-
ulations have given it into the hands of other par-
ties. The road is now looked upon as a competing
line with the Gould system from St Louis to Texas,
more especially since Mr. Gould tried but failed to
get control of the road after rigut of way through
the Indian Territory was secured at Paris The
road is to connect with the Gulf, Colorado and San-
ta Fe and the northwest extension of the Houston
and Texas Central, which has already been built
from Garrett to Lone Oak, a point on the Sabine
river about sixty miles southeast of Paris. The
road is building west from Pierce City, Mo., under
the old charter of the Atlantic and Pacific road,
and is also building west from Albuquerque, N. M.,
under the same charter. From Plymouth, Mo.,
south the road is being operated in the name of the
St. Louis and San Francisco railroad.
The following are the real estate transfers as re-
corded by the county clerk for the week ending
December 7.1882:
T. L. MarsalistoW. J. Addison, 5Gxl55 feet, on
Wood street, city of Dallas, for $500.
I). King and wife to K. S. M. Kennar'd. 40 35-100
acres, six miles south from the city of Dallas, for
$550.
Mrs. D. Nussbaumer to W. W Stokey, 50x109
feet on Floyd street, city of Dallas, for $110.
T. B. Fisher and wife to J. C. Fisher, 65 acres out
of the A. McComas survey, for $65.
Nat M\ Burford to John F. Wunderlech. 12 acres
ont of the Walter Anderson survey, fior $24.
P. J. Adkins to H. M Arnold, 60 acres out of the
W. Barnett survey, for $265.
J.W.Davenport and wife to W S. and M. A.
Wilson, 40 acres out of the W. Barnett survey, for
$500.
J. V. Moore and wife to G. W. Davenport, 40
acres out of the W. Barnett survey, for $500.
W. T. Gill and wife to W D. Goss, 11,700 square
feet on Five-mile creek for $100.
J.J. Chauncey to J. C. Bogel. one-fourth of an
acre out of the John Grigsby league, for $125
J. S. Ballard and wife to H. N. Meier, 90x09 feet,
corner Griffin andCaruth streets.oity of Dallas, for
$2500.
Henry Landers to Leo Mander, 9450 square feet
out of the Thomas Lagow league, for $'20.
S. P. Mendez and wife to Edwin Smith, 133^x200
feet out of the Crawford Grigsby league, for $1500
John B. Stone to J. A. Johnston, 2 lots in the
shape of an L, corner of William and Bone streets,
city of Dallas, for $300
J. H. Bowman and wife and others to Samuel M.
Sample, 200xl63>£ feet out of the John Grigsby
league, for $700.
John I. Burbridge to Betty W. Aldredge, 149x202
feet. Harwood and Polk streets, city of Dallas, for
51 WO.
J oseph Lohnstein to Celia Lohnstein, lot 6. in
block 50, fronting 25 feet on south side Elm street,
city of Dallas, for $10,000.
Edwin Smith and wife to W. G. Kain, 226 feet
front on Pearl and Olive streets respectively, city
of Dallas, for $5000.
S Bromwell and wife to H. G. Putnam and wife,
113xll3}4 feet. Elm aud Crowdus streets, city of
Dallas, for $3»A»0.
Miles McMahon and wife to Mary Ann Keehan,
25x100 feet on Crowdus street, city of Dallas,
for $1.
Robert J. Mills and wife to Bluford Haynes, 5
acres, 2^ miles west from the city of Dallas, for
$40.
H. McDowell and wife to Sidney McHenry, 8
acres on Five Mile creek, for $50.
C. H. Williams and wife to Mrs. C. T. Dickinson,
lots 21, 25 and 26, in block 30, of the railroad addi-
tion to the city of Dallas, for **825.
P. J. Sheehan and wif* to E. Erismann, 86x111
feet on Wood street, city of Dallas, for $1600.
J. M. Adkins to R. G. Adkins, Jr., 60 acres out of
the W. Barnett survey, for $35.
J. M. and R V. Adfctn* to H. M. Arnold, CO acres
out of the W. Barnett survey, for $35.
E. P. Nicholson to W. B. Taylor, five acres, part
of the Dixon league, for $25.
John T Wunderlich to Mrs. Agnes Eberth, 12
acres out of the Walter Anderson survey, for $30.
L. J. N. and J. P. McCain to G. W. Rife, 20 acres
out of the J. Jennings survey, for $40.
W. C. Mills and wife to j. C. Jacobs, 10 acres
near Hewlett's ereek, for $75.
J.F, Tinsley and wife to J. C. Jacobs, 44t£ acres
on Rawlett's creek, for $333.
The following are the marriage licenses as issued
by the county clerk for the week ending December
James B. Lauderdale and Laura B. Scudder.
Ted Andrews and Moliie Mitchell.
Peter Lawry and Annie Scott.
Joseph Hodgson and Mary L. Fielding.
Robert At wood and Laura A. Bethurum.
Thomas H. Daniel and M. J. Beard.
S. A. Haught Jr. and D A. Gordon.
W. J. Williford and Bell Hart,
J. C. Summers and Ellen Ballard.
Nicholas Antoine and Mrs. M. Peken.
A. W. Stainaker and Sarah C. Marsh.
Joshua A. Bishop and D. Fuqua.
Francis M (. lower and Willie Fuqua.
From to-day the bridge across the Trinity river
Is free
Seven prisoners, convicted at the last term of the
District Court, were taken to the penitentiary
A telegram was recieved from San Antonio this
a. m. conveying the sad intelligence of the death of
Mrs. Alonzo Millet, nee Pfouts. She was the eldest
daughter of Mr. P. S. Pfouts. of the Dallas Herald,
and was universally popular in Dallas society,
bhe had been an invalid for tho past two years,
and lately she was a great sufferer from pain and
disease. Mr. and Mrs. Pfouts left for San Antonio
this evening to attend the funeral.
Two deputy sheriffs arrived from Mesquite last
night in charge of Jeff and George Barnet and
locked them up on the charge of stealing two
horses near Grand berry, Hood county. One of
the stolen horses was found in their possession.
Private Watohman Dempsey bagged a burgular
about 2 o'clock this morning. He gives his name as
John White, and belongs to a migratory gang. He
was detected going through a room in an Elm street
hotel.
FORT WORTH.
Canada Sill's Case — Marriage Li-
censes — Educational — Commercial
Failure—Heavy Fire—Bold Robbery
—New Street-Car Route—Real Es-
tate Transfers.
[Special Telegram to The News.l
Fort Wort;:, December 9.—The case of Bill
Hefron, alias Canada Bill, came up to-day on writ
of habeas corpus. He was allowed bail at $6000.
So far his bond has not beer. made.
There were eleven marriage licenses issued this
week.
The average enrollment of pupils of the public
schools this week was 921; the average attendance
was 80 per cent.
The grocery stores of R. H. Barnes & Co. and
Harris. Barnes & Co. were closed this afternoon by
the sheriff. Claims, so far, are in favor of A. W.
A man in Duluth has invented a flying ma-
chine, slow burning explosives furnishing the
motive power. It has made two ascensions of
about 150 feet, and worked well.
The assets will about cover the liabilities.
C. H. Cunagar was fined $50 in the County Court
to day for loosing horses to go into inclosed lands
unauthorised.
I^ate this evening, as the Misses Anderson were
returning home, their reticide was grabbed by a
negro roan. After some contention, he obtained it
and ran away. It contained but little money.
The new street railway going east has crossed
Houston street, and will connect with the railway-
on Main street Monday.
Transfers of real estate for the week ending De-
cember 7, 1832;
Lecil Eobo to James H. Field, for $500, southeast
corner lot of biock 7, of Tucker's addition to citv.
E. M. Daggett to Charles Turner, for $350, lot *5,
in block 7 ot Hirsfleld's addition to city.
Charles Turner and wife to A. B. Nelson and J.
W. Guiuiond, for $100, part of lot 5, in block 1 of
Hirsfleld's addition to city.
I,. A. Trimble to A. D. Trimble, for $40G, 35x100
feet of land on Rusk street.
John D. Miller, by sheriff, to J. F. Chancellor
and J J West, Jr., for $250, all John D. Miller's
interest in tract of land in county.
G. W. Joplin to Thomas F. Rogers, for $1500, 160
acres of land in county.
Eiiza Burford to E. L. Nowlan, for $100 and love
and affection. 83V* and 20 acres of land in county.
J. P. Nolan ana wife to T. S. Coleman, for $400,
20 acres of land in county.
Hiram Hancher to Louisa J. Brockman, for $600
90 acres of land in county.
Louisa J. and C. G. Brockman to F. F. Foscue,
for $1000, 90 acres of land In coimty.
J. P. Smith to F. F Foscue. for $800,1G0 acres of
the Nathan Smith survey in county.
J. P. Smith to F. F. Foscue, for $350, 70 acres in
coimty.
V. J. Hutton and wife to H. H, Casper, for $G00,
150 acres in county.
W. B Burrow aud wife to J. H. O'Neall, for $500,
150 acres iu county.
J. H. O'Neall to E. H. West, for $1200, 150 acres
of land in county.
\V. B.,Hart to Samuel Shy, for $2500 52, 1C0 acres,
40 acres. 109 acres and 10 acres of iand in county.
L. B Creswel! and wife to R. H. King, for $45, 3
acres of land in county.
SAN ANTONIO,
Races Postponed—Arrest of tho Demi-
Monde—Railroad Surgeons—Stab-
bing Affray—-Jury Dismissed—A
Horse Killed—Poor-House Consoli-
dation—Railway Magnates —Real
Estate Transfers*
[Special Telegram to The News,]
San Antonio. December 9.—The races to have
taken place today have again been deferred,
owing to bad weather.
The arrsst and subsequent finding of ladies of
the demi-monde at the races during the week is
causing some little smoihered excitement, it being
looked upon by many as a violation of personal
libertv.
The following are the newly appointed surgeons
on the International road; Dr. Clu w has Leen re-
appointed at San Autouio; at Austin, Drs. Swear-
iugen and McLaughlin; at Laredo, Dr. Hunter.
Another tragedy has occurred here. Three
Mexicans rode to a galoon here in the Mexican dis-
trict, called out a Mexican named Antonio Rami-
rez, who was in the saloon drinking. When Rami-
rez came out one of the Mexicans, named Fermin
stabbed him in the breast, saying: "That is what
I wanted you for." They then rode away. Rami
rez got home and secured medical attention, and is
now d. ,ng wril. Officers are after Fermin, but he
has not been caught yet.
In the District Court to day the court dismissed
the hung jury in the $10,000 damage suit—Brestin
vs. Schram.
Last nirht a delivery wagon of A, B Frank &
Co. was coming down avenue D, when a collision
occurred between it and Dr. Chew's buggy The
b'igjfy wheel was wrenched off, and the tongue
struck Frar.U s horse in the breast and killed it.
Thero ;s some talk of a suit against the city for
damages, because the avenue was not lighted
The committee from the City Council are to
meet a committee from the county commissioners
to discusa the advisability of having one poor-
house for both.
Aiesais. T, W. Peirce, Chaa. Crocker, 11. S. Faf-
ford, D. Butterfield and W. E. Brown, the railway
magnates, have arrived in the city. They leave
here on Monday morning for El Paso en route for
San Francisco. Colonel Huntington is not of the
party. They will be informally entertained by the
San Antonio club to-night, but have declined the
tendered banquet, owing to their short stav here.
The following are the real e«tate transfersjfor the
M. j. Doyle to Frank P. nord, for $1280. a tract ot
land in Bexar county containing 640 acres, known
as survey 359 on the waters of Medio creek, a. trib-
utary of the Medina river, about twelve miles north-
west of San Antonio.
W. F. Shanklin to Martin Mahula, for $2000, a
piece of land containing 940 acres In Bexar county.
D. W. Hiard to W. P. Dewees, for $600, a piece of
land in Bexar county containing 297acres in survey
130.
James Speed to Helen Johnson, for $960, a piece
of land in west San Antonio, west of the San Pedro,
known as lot 10, block 1, having a front of 35 varas
on north Flores street and running back to the
creek for depth. „ „
R. B. Nitflihoro and R. S. Nighboro to J. E.
Lancett, for $125, lot 11, in block 5, bounded east
by Clinton street, west by an alley, north by lot 10.
"Rosalind Diaz and wife to Celestin Villeman. for
$250, a piece of land near the Mission ot San Juan,
having a front of 15 varas and running back for
depth to the besague.
August Krisch to August Riohelieu and wife, for
$125, lot 9 of Benjamin R. Sappington's subdivision
of original city farm block No. 40. west of San
Pedro creek, having a front of lS£s varas, and run-
ning back 24 feet for cepth.
E. D. L. Wickes to Mary J. Price, for $600, a piece
a land on the west side of the San Antonio river,
and north of the upper labor ditch, known as lots
1 and 3, in block 3. bounded north by Poplar street,
east by Main avenue.
Melchord Vndo de Flores to Wells Thompson, for
$150, lots 8 and 9, range 1, district 3, lying on the
east side Rock Quarry roaa.
Felix Maldonado and wife to Rosa G. Dias, for
$80, a lot on the south side of the plaza of the Mis-
sion San Juan, having a front of 6 varas. and run-
ning back to the Mission Acequia Desague for depth.
A. Boj'd Doremua and wife to E. R. Rachel, for
$1250, lots 4. 5 and 6, block 1, In Edwards & La-
coste's addition to Upper San Antonio.
TYLER.
Supreme Court Decisions—Correction-
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Tyler, December 9.—In the Supreme Court the
the following reports of the Commission of Appeals
were adopted: Affirmed—Dolson et al. vs. Moss,
from Robertson county; Barkley vs. Tarrant boun-
ty, from Tarrant county; Shillings vs. Howell,
from Lamar county; Battle vs. Guedrif, from Mc-
Lennan county; Blakes vs. Todd, from Travis
county; Patterson et al. vs. Reynolds, from Mc
Lennan county; Aycock vs. Hearne, from Robert-
son county; Roberts vs. Christman, from Wash-
ton county; Duryea et al. vs. Giddings. et al., from
Washington county; Ross Fitzch and wife, from
Bastrop county. Reversed and r«n iered—Maswell
vs. Hillburne. from Lamar county. The court also
reversed and remanded Howard et al. vs. Kopperl,
from Bell coimty; corporation of Seguin vs. Ire-
land. from Guadalune county.
Your correspondent at Austin is evidently misled
in his telegram published iu The News of the Sth
inst., as to the Supreme Court adjourning here on
the 20th. The Supreme Court has not yet deter-
mined when it will adjourn, and have no notice as
to when the judge elect will qualify. As to East
Texas and North Texas squabbling" over the loca-
tions of this court, and the probability of the loca-
tion of the entire court at Austin, as far asveur
correspondent has sounded public sentiment, from
the numerous attorneys attending court this term,
the unanimous sentiment has beeu. that while
they would rather have, and will vigorously fight
to retain, the courts at Tyler, yet they would*rather
it should go to Dallas than see a consolidation,
which would inevitably bring about a division of
the State as fai as East Texas is concerned.
ROCKDALE.
Personal—Business, Etc.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Rockdale, December 9.—Rev. Edwin James,
Baptist evangelist, assisted by Professor Crawford,
as organist, who has baeu holding a series of meet-
ings here for the past ten days, leaves for Corsi
cana to-morrow night. During his stay here there
have been some twenty-five conversions and resto-
rations to that church.
Our merchants are receiving quantities of Christ-
mas and New Year goods.
To-dajr the streets were crowded with cotton,
which bnds a good price and ready gale. Business
of all kinds is generally good.
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Old Citizens' Death.
[Special Telegram to The News.]
Sulphur Springs, December 9.—The w eather has
been cold and threatening for several days. Busi-
ness is good.
There were two deaths in the town to-day—Wm.
Hooker, ag*»d eighty years, and Rev. Thos. Gaf-
ford. aged seventy, and one of the best men in the
county. He was a local Methodist preacher; a
VioAn in Miaoiaoinni in 1 iiAT, Una k..' £ . :
- , - . . — meet
rags In that time. It can be said truly a eood man
is gone.
FROM
urns.
If taken occasior-ally bv penon* MXI>0«e ) to Ma-
laria It will expel the Poiaou aud pro-
tect ill em from attack.
As evidence, see extract from W. B. Yates's let-
ter, where the Regulator afforded protection from
the worst and most deadly type of Malaria, to
wit: Yellow Fever.
4'Sirs: I h*ve stood the storm of four epidem-
ics of the Yellow Fever. I had it the first vi>ita-
tiou, buf during the ot^er three I u?ed your medi-
cine. I was continually in the rooms o; ihe sick
and dying, but I escaped. 1 have nad several to
a.-k ine how I wcaped; I fold them P was all ow-
ing to the virtue of your Simmons Liver Regula-
tor. If the fever \va- to break out again ai.d I hac!
a botrle of your Regulator 1 would teel as safe as
if 1 was lOt'O miles away.
44 Memphis, Tenn., April 17, 1S79."
Having neutralized the poison of Malaria in
such extreme eases, it can be relied on tis a sover-
eign specific and antidote in milder form*.
BT See that you get the Ge> uine in White
Wrapper, "with red Z, prepared only by J. H. Zdiiiu
& Co.
TEXAS BRANCX2
NEW ORLEANS
Cotton Seed Ass'n.
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FOR
COTTON SEED.
SACKS AND TWINE FURNISHED.
For further information addre-s
G. C. STREET, Agent,
HOISTON, TEXAS.
NEW ORLEANS, August 20, 1882.
ME. G. C. STREET is our only authorized Agent
in Texas.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON SEED ASS'N.
LADIES
CHRISTMAS
Is now near at hand, and all the little ones are ex-
pecting Santa Claus to bring them ever so many
nice things. Our husbands, brothers and sisters
are likewise looking for something very handsome,
and now the opportune moment has arrived to
purchase all those little necessaries that go to
make up the dream of the little ones' happiness.
Our stock is yet unselect ;d and unbroken, and
prices not advanced. With the coming week of
pleasant weather will be the time to buy. We
still announce the largest, most beautiful, * cheap-
est and greatest variety of all kinds of Toys aud
Presents of every description, embracing over 10,-
000 different articles that the public has ever had
occasion to view under one roof. We particularly
desire to impress upon the ladies that uow is the
present moment—later the goods will ail be gone;
that there will be a great crowd and a jam, and a
disagreeable rush that an earlier purchase would
entirely avoid. So, ladies, please call now and se-
cure the only bargains at
LABADIE'S.
NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that holders of the
GALVESTON COUNTY TEN PER CENT. SANTA
FE RAILROAD BONDS,
called in for redemption December 15,1SS2, may
present the same for payment, with accrued
interest, at the office of the County Treasurer of
Galveston county. WM. T. AUSTIN,
County Judge Galveston County.
Galveston, December 9, 1882.
Buy your wrapping paper at the
News Counting room, 25 cents per hundred.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Attention, Heptasophs or 6>*. V7.'.
OT.". —A full attendance is requested at the meeting
TO-MORROW EVENING.
Important business, and nomination of officers
for ensuing term.
By order of the Conclave,
GEO. SMITH,
Scribe.
Patriarchs, Attentions—Members of the
Uniformed Patriarchs are earnestly requested to
meet at the hall of ih^ir order, on MONDAY
EVENING, DECEMBER 11,1832. Business of im
portance to be transacted.
Iv L SHEP.RARD. Chief Captain.
Notice—The officers and members of
STAR STATE STEAM FIEE ENGINE COMPANY,
No. 3, are hereby notified to attend annual meet-
ing and election of officers
TUESDAY, DEC. 12. at 7:30 P. M.
By order of L. FALKENTF AL, Foreman.
G. E. Moillkr, Sec'y.
lTIONAL.
The Albert Lyon School.
E and CENT33R STHEETS.
Tenth Annual session. A Jreiect School, limited
to forty, for the training aud education of gentle-
men's son*. Tuiutiou f«n». due mouihly in advance,
$6. llmter to present patrons: Hon. A. H Wiitie (2
annual sessions), Hon. C. L Cleweiund (8), Mr.
Chas. Keilaer ;3h Mr. J. W. Jockusck «8i M. H.
Roystoa, Esq. < " F, M. Spencer, Esq. (.&), Mr. C. D-
Holmea (7), Rev. S. M. Bird CM?), and to former
natrons ffenti alLc-
SARGENT & 8TEIRER.
osain akd pboduod commission merchant 3,
Agents for the Southwest and Mexico for
mZOSLEH BAHKIANN & CO.'S Fire and Burglar Proof Vaults^ Doors and
S A F E
171 STRAMTO - GALVESTON.
P. J. WILLIS & BRO,
COTTON FJLCTOR8,
Importers and "Wholesale Dealers in
Groceries, -Dry Goods,
Boots, Shoes Hats Cabs and Notions.
GALVESTON, TEXAS.
In Store Ready for Delivery:
20,000 Kegs NAIES,
150 Tons BAR & BUNDLE IBON,
3500 Dozen AXES,
2000 Doz. ETE & HANDLE HOES,
50.000 Lbs. STEEL PLOW SHARES,
2500 Dozen CLEVICES,
250 Casks CHAINS.
2000 Dozen COLLARS,
2000 Dozen HASES,
3000 Dozen BACK BANDS.
1000 Dozen PLOW BIIIDLES,
3000 PLOWS,
2000 PLOW STOCKS,
1500 MEN'S & WOMEN'S SADDLES.
J. S. BROWN & CO,
HARDWARE MERCHANTS,
Strand, Galveston, Texas.
GROCERIES—LIQ.TJ ORS.
gaivestos.
WAR!! WARN WAR!!
TO THE TRADE GENERALLY.
I am prepared to fill any and all or-
ders for
ILLUMINATING OILS
on a basis of 15 cents per gallon, in
cases containing two 6-gallon cans,
110 fire test. All other eases and bar-
rels in proportion.
Isaac Heidenheimer.
NEW CROP
SUGARS
AND
MOLASSES.
LeGierse & Co,
holiday Goods. Holiday Goods.
2000 Boxes A. B. and Hard Gum Drops.
2000 Boxes Lozenges, Decorated Creams. Sugar
Fruits and Coriunders.
1200 Boxes Chocolate Goods, Pearled Cloves aad
Almond Candies.
2000 Boxes Jap Cocoanut, Castalia and Cocoanut
Balls.
1400 Boxes Rock Candy, Mint Drops, Cordials,
Brown Burnt Alqaonds.
3oxes Caramels. Cam"
Fruits and Licorice.
Marbles, Crystallized
1200 Boxe» Peppermint Drops, Kisses. Jujube and
Mixed Candies.
Also, Stick Candy of all sizes. Peanut and Cream
Bar. Peppermint and Lemon Rinjjs and Cakes,
and a large and varied assortment of
CHXU8TMA8 TRE2S TOYS,
Prize Boxes and Prize Packages, Fireworks and
Fire Crackers.
Gr. SEELIQ-.sON & CO.
TOBACCO!
S. W. Yenable's
CELEBRATED
ANCHOR
AND
EL C.
99
NAVIES.
MILLER & ENGLISH,
SOLE AGENTS FOR TEXAS.
T
BUSINESS CHANGES.
HE FIRM OF MOORE. STRATTON & CO.
is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
W. W. MOORE.
W. H. STRATTON,
F. A. PARK.
JAMES MOORE,
A. D. STOREY.
November 1, 1882.
SEFERRING TO THE ABOVE, THE UNDER-
signed have this day formed a copartnership
sr the Arm name and style of
MENSING, STRATTON & CO.,
for the purpose of continuing the
WHOLESALE GROCERY BUSINESS
of the late firm of Moore, Stratton & Co., and the
Cotton Factorage and General Commission busi-
ness of G. H. Mensinjr A Pro., the new firm assum-
ing the liabilities and receiving the assets of the
late firm of Moore, Strat'ton & Co., and respect-
fully ^elicit a continuance of the patronage be-
stowed upon the late firms.
O. H. MENSING,
W. E. MENSING.
W. H STRATTON,
JAMES MOORE.
November 1, 1832.
NOTICES.
1KS1SG, STRATTON & CO.
SUCCESSORS TO
SUCCESSORS TO
moore, s1ratt0s& co. g.b.messing&br8.
WHOLESALE
GEOCEES
And Importers,
COTTON FACTORS
AND
General Commission Merchants,
Corner Strand and 22d Streets.
DISSOLUTION.
rpHE COPARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE UN-
dersigned, under the firm name of C. M. PEARRE
& CO., is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
W. L. MOODY.
C. M. PEARRE,
E. S. JEMISON.
Galveston, October 30, 1882.
W
Bank Fixtures for Sale.
ILL SELL, TOGETHER OR. SEPARATELY,
the following bank fixtures in good order:
DIEBOLD & KENZIB FIRE AND BURGLAR-
PkOOF COMBINATION LOCK SAFE.
about 7$ laches high and 36 inches vride Has
twenty pigcoQ-uoles. ample spaces for books, and
burglar heavy steel center doors with
burglar-proof bolts, besides outer fire and burglar-
proof doors.
AJs*' furty-flve feet of COUNTER of OAK and
JIaHOGaX*, surmounted by iron railing with
spaces for eashier, tvller, etc.
Above fixtures, pertaining to an uv occupied
bank, have come ieto the possession of the Na-
tional Bank of Jefferson, Texas, of which iuquire
for terms.
FOR SALE.
"TpIVE Galveston City Lota on Avenue I. between
J? Hth aud lJith street*, and several etiusr gwod
lots- In the eastern and western portions of the city.
The northeast charter of outlot No. il. corner of
15th street ar.d Areuue M. Also *614 acres of land
in Brazoria county, and 500 acres in Colorado
countv. Apply to C. H. p1.x,
OtiSce of T. M. Joseph, cor. 22d and Postoffice.
E. Gr. CHILDS,
Wholesale Dealer in
C0AL&C0KE,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
State A^-ent Osage Coal and Miaing Company.
Contracts made for the delivery of tual ana coke
to any railroad depot iu the State.
vor SALE ok RENT—A desirable farm situ-
_F tted ov the Medina river, ab-ut 12 mites from
the city of cfan Antonio, and on the I. and G. N R.
R., consisting of a large three hard rock
dwelling house, and outhouses and barns ail of
hard rock A pecan grovtj which yields from 1O0
to 150 bushels of pecans per annum. Also 1000
acres of fine grazing and farming lands adjacent
to the buildings. , .
For further particulars apgiT^to^^
bun Antonio, Texas.
To Whom it May Concern.
THE UNDERSIGNED HAS BEEN APPOINTED
administrator of the estate of Jose de So'.arza-
co. deceased. All parties Laving claims Against
said party wfll praeent their claims within the time
prescribed by law. A. M BRUNI.
Administrator.
T.arepo- Webb county, Texas. December 4, le4i.
G«K GAS Ca
The annual meeting of the stock-
holders will be held at the office of the Com-
pany,
at 1! o'clock a. M.,
On the 21st Cay of December, 1882,
for the election of Directors for the ensuing year,
and transaction of other business which may be
laid before them. aug. buttlar, Sec y.
NOTICE
COTTON EXCHANGE BONDHOLDERS.
Notice is hereby given that all outstanding bonds
of the GALVESTON COTTON EXCHANGE are
called iu for payment, and will be redeemed at the
office of Ball, Hutchings & Co.. on TUESDAY,
JANUARY 2. 18153, and that said bonds will bear
no interest after that date. W. L. MOODY,
President Galveston Cotton Exchange.
Official: A. G. Mills, Se retarj\
DR. TRUEHEART
HAS RETURNED TO THE CITV,
And Resumes the
practice of his profession.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE—Church Street, be-
tween Twenty-first and Twenty-second.
OFFICE PATIENTS received from 11 tol o'clock
Week Da vs. Sundays, from 1 to 2; also, from 7 to
8 p. m. on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays.
In otice.
All orders or complaints, to
receive prompt attention, should be left aC
llie office of tne Company, in the Bricic Building, on
Market Street, Between 24tli aud 25lli
Streets,
Between the hours or 9 aud 12 o'clock a. m.
A LTG« BITTLARi Secretary.
J
B. G. DUN & CO., Prop'rs.
ICOBEKT SMITH,
District Manager, Galveston, Texas.
Reference books issued quarterly, compile i
from the most reliable information. O^llection of
past due cla.iuas a specialty. For terms of sub-
scription apply at our offices in Galveston. Hous-
ton, Daiias, San Antonio. Forr Wo th n i Wac-x
Texas Go-Opsraiivs UsscBiatioa
?. of H.
CHARTERED JULY 5, 1878.
Capital Stock, §100,000.
Organized for tlie purpose of transact-
ing a General l*urclia»ii>g9 Factors'
and Cominli^iim JUustnc**.
Special attention given So the filling of order?
and to the sale ot* Cotton, Grain, Wool, Hides Exj.
Correspondence, orders and Consignments solicited.
P. O. BOX 416. J. S. ROGERS,
Business Manager, cor. Strand aud Twentieth.
supreme court docket
AT
GALVESTO jST
JANUARY TERM, 1883.
IRST ASSIGNMENT (TWO WEEKS), COM-
_i_- msncing on MONDAY, JANUARY
1, 1883, are assigned for hearing causes from
the county of Fayette and from the Twenty-third
and Twenty-fifth Judicial districts, except the
counties of "Live Oak, MoMullen and LaSalle.
Second assignment (two weeks) commencing on
MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 18S3, are assumed for
hearing causes from the First, Fourth and Thirty-
first Judicial districts and the county of Freestone.
Third assignment (two weeks), commencing on
MONDAY. JANUARY 29, 1888, are assigned for
hearing causes from the Twentv-Sixth Judicial
district, and counties of Austin, Colorado and La-
vaca.
Fourth assignment (two weeks), commencing on
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1383, are assignee for
hearing causes from the Eighteenth and Twenty-
first Judicial districts.
Fifth assignment (one week),commencing.on Feb-
ruary 2«i, lStsi. is assigned for hearing causes from
Gonzales county and causes from other branohfss
of the court, made returnable to the Galveston
term by agreement of parties.
Daniel d. atchtsqn.
Clerk of the Supreme Court.
F:
HOTELS.
THE NEW HOTEL DAM,
Ad joining and connecting with the
UNION SQUARE HOTEL, corner of 15th street
and Union Square, New York,
Is >'ow Keady for tlie Reception of
Guests.
Location the most desirable, and accessible to
all points of interest in the city. Elegantly fur-
nished throughout and with every modern conven-
ience and sanitary improvement. Superb salons,
* .a <f'~* "
elegant restaurant ana dining room, and choice
cuisine. Fifty-two suites, with bath and toile*
room attached.
A. J. DAM & SON, Propr s.
ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL,
Broadway, New York.
American Plan.
300 Rooms at $3 50 per day, including all Meals,
Apartments. Lights and Atteudance. Meals are
served at all hours from d a. m. to 1* p. m.
European Plan.
200 Rooms a * $1 per day and upward, in con-
nection with a very superior
Restaurant at Moderate Prices.
This Hotel, replete with all Modern Improve-
ments, is very oonveniently located on Broadway,
is first-class in all its appointments, and has been
long known as having no superior in New York.
URIAH WELCH,
Proprietor.
Also Proprietor of the New American. Kiohiield,
Springs. Olseeo county. N. Y , a Celebrated Sum-
mtsr Resort great attractions and unequaled
Sulnhur Springs. Thkodor* Gittinos,
Room Clerk.
filiiwii*
1000 Bbls. all Grades Nsw Sugars and
X£olasi*e.
1000 ?ckg-s Baisins, 1-4, 1-3 and 1-1
Boxes, Uayers and Xjondons.
100 Pcltgs California Wises, Reesling'f
Hock, .Angelica, Part, Sherry auJ
Claret—all Pure Goods.
1000 Boxes Fire-Crackers.
250 Boxes No. 1 Assortment Fire-
works. ■
350 Boxes No. 2 Assortment Fir»-
works-
Full tines of Candies, Pigs, I^uts, Etc.,
Etc.—all Suitable for the Holidays-
Solo Agents for CHROMC OB3WIHO
TOSACCU and LA BiiLLE CHBOLE
WHISKY.
il
COTTON FACTORS,
"Wholesale Grocers and Importers.
Lock Hood & kampmann,
BANKERS,
SAN ANTON*©. - TEXAS.
Collections solicited on AU Points in the State.
Commercial paper discounted. Bills aa Mexico
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