The Age. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1875 Page: 2 of 4
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AUGUST 6, 1875.
FRIDAY,
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No. 44 Pillot's New Building, Main St.,
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orders at most reasonable, rates. Patronage
solicited. Aug3Im
HD. LORENZEN,
Successor to Ward, Dewey & Co.,
DEALER IN FURNITURE, MATTRASSES,
'ETC., ETC., ETC.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
THE CHEAPEST & BEST
Furniture House in Texas.
All Goods Delivered Free of Charge.
REMOVAL: REMOVAL,
A. Cramer has removed from the corner of
Preston and Main to Conradi’s o d stand,
near corner’ Congress and Main, where he in-
vites all his old customers and friends to call.
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HENRY FOX,
Dealer In
Staple and Fancy Groceries
And Importer of
CIGARS, WINES AND LIQUORS,
No. 56 Main Street,
The new Spanish constitution declares
the Roman Catholic the State Religion.
The Ministry of Victoria, Australia, has
resigned.
The Herzegovian insurgents are gather-
ing strength.
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Gov. Allen, the Democratic eur-
rency-expansion candidate in Ohio,
has written a letter to a gentleman,
saying he and his party are making
the preliminary fight in Ohio against
heavy and most powerful combina-
tions, but that he and they will tri-
umph in October, as they will in the
Presidential contest next year.
“Old Bill Allen” knows what he is
talking about, and we believe the
route of the hard money legions will
be signal, decisive and crushing. So
mote it be
It is not improbable that the total
shrinkage in values since the insane
policy of contraction amounts to the
destruction of values during the war.
In a recent speech Gov. Allen, the
Democratic candidate in Ohio, said
the currency plank in his platform
had been greatly misrepresented; it
was not intended to increase the cur-
rency only to a point necessary for
the wants of business and trade.
New Advertisements.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
[Containing the substance of all the lates
dispatches.]
A News special says that the celebrated
Myers and Baldridge murder case, has been
commenced at Bryan.
The Mississippi River is still rising.
The Kiowa and Comanche women ar
unwilling to go to Florida.
Chicago lost $42,000 by Duncan, Sher-
man & Co.
Jack Draser won the $4,000 purse at
Poughkeepsie—time 2:29.;
The Third Georgia Regiment visited
Fortress Monroe. meusmneommusnen
The Alabama Convention carried by 2000
majority.
A portion of Cincinnati is flooded.
The Indian fraud commissioners find it
difficult to get evidence.
FOREIGN.
A water spout burst over the town of
Kurven, Prussia.
Pontifical high mass was celebrated in
the church of the Irish College, London, in
sympaty with the O’Connel Centennial.
Great floods have occurred near Cal-
cutta.
The Turks are collecting a large force to
crush Herzegovia.
Hans Andersen died of cancer at Copen-
hagen.
Americans in Furope holding letters of
credit on Duncan, Sherman & Co., denounce
the firm.
It is rumored in London that the Faraday
failed to repair the direct cable.
A large number of distinguished person-
ages were gresent at the annual banquet of
the Lord Mayor of London to the Minis-
try.
The Carlist forces are approaching disso-
lution.
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0 S. LONGCOPE,
* C OTTON FACTOR
—AND—
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Houston, Texas.
Liberal advahces made on Cotton.
aug6lm
J}R M. PERL, *
Proprietor of
TURCORUSSI AN BATHS
And General Practitioner.
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Special attention to Chronic Diseases.
Office and Residence corner of Travis Street
and Texas Avenue, Houston, Texas. Turco-
Russian Baths are open at all hours. Single
Bath, $1; Twelve Tickets, $12. aug6 lm
HEIDINGSFELDER,
Dealer In
DRY GOODS,
TRIMMINGS,
FANCY ARTICLES,
CLOTHING,
HATS,
TRUNKS, VALISES,
And the finest stock of
Gaiters, Slippers, Boots, Shoes, Etc.,
Travis St., opposite the Market,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
diamonds,
A C. ROGERS,
" ATToRNEY. h
AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Houston, Texas.
qgg Office—Pillot’s old building. Con-
gress street. Practices in the State and
United States Courts. aug5 lm
TEXAS STAPLE GOODS.
BETTER THAN ANY IMPORTED.
—FRESH—
FROM THE LOOM.
gag Full lines to be found at Houston City
Mills. Sales Room 43 Main Street, Houston.
Aug41m JAS. F. DUMBLE, Agent.
What a consistent set the Blockheads
are may be seen from the fact that
they refused to allow Mr. Westhei-
mer take up the floors of his stable,
yet permit excavations elsewhere
throughout the city. The Block-
heads have seemingly as little idea of
justice as a hog has of a fiddle.
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It is at this season of the year, and
in this latitude that the evenings are
superlatively lovely: the fierce heats
of noontide soften down into the de-
lightful temperature of the rosy
August sunset; and the calm radiance
of the summer stars and the brilliant
planets supplants the fiery reign of
the sun, while the genial south wind
comes up laden with the welcome
humidity of the Gulf.
We learn that five petitions have
been circulating, one in each Ward,
asking the Council for retrenchment
and a new election of office's in Octo-
ber, thus getting rid of the present
worthless set of aldermanic dolts
and official parasites. We under-
stand the Democrats are signing more
readily than any body else. Could
the Board of Blockheads desire any
better evidence of their utter con-
demnation by the people ?
We believe a serious movement
will be made in the Convention to-
ward the whipping post and restricted
suffrage,especially in cities and towns.
Whilst we believe the whipping Post
a thousand times more effectual in
suppressing petty crime still it is not
in harmony with public opinion in
this sentimental age; it sounds too
much like the heathen bastinado of
Mohammedan countries; As to re-
stricted suffrage it is not at all in
keeping with free and Democratic
institutions, and can never be popu-
lar here, where all should have a
voice in selecting their rulers. We
wish the people—the masses—the
freest and fullest exercise of the in-
estimable right of freemen—the boon
of suffrage,—a right that has cost
other nations centuries of blood to
obtain.
TEXAS CRIMINAL CODE.
The State of Texas in her onward
and upward career has arrived at that
point when she must divest herself of
all appendages detrimental either to
the fair fame of her people or her
rapid accession to political power,
domestic prosperity, and future great-
ness. Hitherto we have been a fron-
tier people, hampired and environed
with all the drawbacks and difficul-
ties that usually beset newly settled
communities ; our frontier counties
are still infested by the robber, the
cut throat, the murderer and the as-
sassin who openly defy and laugh at
all the organized means of protection
to society; nor in many of our old-
est settled counties,—DeWitt, for ex-
ample—has the moral force and in-
fluence of the good and the law abid-
ing citizens been able to keep down
and restrain the vicious, the bad, or
the desperados.
But Society not only protects itself,
but in time avenges its wrongs ; the
deep foundations of Society in Texas
have been laid and the magnificent
superstructure is being erected; for
the building the rough ashlars are be-
ing smoothed and the unworthy
blocks rejected. Society in Texas,as it
has done in older communities, must
rid herself of her outlaws, her rob-
bers, her highwaymen, her assassins;
and to accomplish that end the great
levers and engines of organized soci-
ety,—our courts and legislatures—
must be brought into active requisi-
tion.
Our murderers must be punished,
our assassins pursued with vengeance
at once never tiring and terrible,—
pursued and hunted down with the
vigilance of eternal justice. Our
desperadoes must either be trans-
formed into peaceable citizens, exiled
into the dark oblivion of the peniten-
tiary cell, or drived from that society
with whose best interests they are at
war. In Texas, as in other govern-
ments, bad men must be restrained
and the good protected, if it takes
hemp and the gallws to do it; male-
factors must be made to respect the
laws and tremble at their violation.
For a new and young State, Texas
is far more law abiding than is the
State of New York. Still she is in-
fested with the classes ef evildoers
above mentioned; and to attract im-
migration by offering a high degree
of protection to person and property,
and peaceful abodes, we must sup-
press or get rid of them.
Hence, the Constitutional Conven-
tion, soon to assemble, will bestow
untold benefits upon the people of
Texas by amending the organic law
of the State so as to provide for add-
ing to our criminal code new and in-
creased terrors for the evil doers
who trample on the rights of soci-
ety- __________________
Distracted Spain still clings to that
wretched, dangerous and forever dis-
astrous principle of the union
of church and State,—a principle
that has already innumerable
woes and some of the most
sanguine wars in European his-
tory. The plank in the new Madrid
Constitution declaring a State Relig-
ion will be repudiated by the Spanish
people at the polls, if they are wise,
and if they have the privilege of
voting on it.
THE EVENING AGE.
Dr. A. A. McBRYDE, Editor.
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Vubiished every gening except Sunday.
Subserip‛i6s:
Per year $6.00 Delivered in the city at
Fifty Cents permonth, payable monthly.
pA Advertising:
PER Inch—75 cents for the first insertion,
and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion.
Per Inch—One month, $6.00; two months;
$9.50; three months, $12.00.
Liberal terms for half column or column
contracts. d..
Office—23 Main Street—Up Stairs.
NOTICE.!
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gggh Mr. C. C. Bavens is our authorized
Agent and Collector for Houston. His ret
ceiptwil be acknowledged at this ofice.
GMr. w. I. Barker is our only authorized
Agent for Galveston.
HD. SMALLWOOD,
JOB PRINTER, A
Over the Postoffice, “4
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
M. MYERSTON,
Wholesale Dealer In
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
Opposite Exchange Hotel.
Houston, Texas,
Apples and Peaches a Specialty.
July31 5m
M. MELLINGER, | JNO. MELLINGER,
New Orleans, Houston.
M MELLINGER & BRO., 1
FAMILY GROCERS,
And Importers of
Wines, Liquors, Ale and Porter,
65 Main Street,
CRESCENT SALOON,
Opposite the Postoffice.
Kentucky and Tennessee Whiskey.
—ALSO-
PORTER AND CIGARS.
ED. MAHONEY.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
W. P. & E. P. HAMBLEN,
' ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Houston, Texas.
GNOFFICE— In Koehler’s Building, oppo-
site the Courthouse. t aug6 lm
•S. O. Cotton. | J. M. Cotton.
S O. COTTON & BRO.,
(Successors to Reichman & Ramsey)
INSURANCE AGENTS,
No. 63 Main St., 2d floor, Van Alstyne’s
Building,
W. D. ALEXANDER. | E. B. GUION.
ALEXANDER & GUION,
Cash Paid for Hides, Wool,
COTTON A PRODUCE,
Commerce Street,
26 - Main Street, -
HOUSTON, TEXAS
July28 2msurouoe
S CONRADI,
Dealer In
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