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HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1874.
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STATE AeESTf.
Messrs. G. R. Weight and Thos. B.
JOHNSON are our duly authorised agents for
the State. Mb. Johnson will give his espe-
cial attention to Austin and the West All
contracts made ty them for advertising, sub-
scription and job work and their receipts for
amounts due us witl be binding on this office.
£. h. Baker.
Proprietor.
NOTICE TO OCR FATR0NS.
R. A. FIFE, ESQ., well and favorably
known to all the residents of Houston, trill
hereafter give his exclusive attention to city ad-
vertising and job work. All contracts for
printing of any .kind made by him will be
faithfully executed by this office. lie is also
authorized to receive subscriptions and receipt
for the same. J. H. BAKER,
Proprietor.
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OUR CITY AGENT.
Major M. F. DeBajligethy is our author-
ized Agent for City Subscriptions and Collec-
tions. He will take exclusive charge of the
News Boys and City Delivery, and any
subscriber failing to receive his paper promptly
can have the amission supplied by notifying
other Major DeBajligethy or this office.
NOTICE.
Every person indebted to the MERCURY,
on account of subscription, on January 1st,
tail! receive no papers thereafter, vmtiC'he ar-
rears are collected.
We-publish the MERCURY for money.
Those who consider it worth reading, cannot
object to paying therefor.
We are determined to publish the best paper
m Texas, and we want that which is due us—
tee ask no more—and will be satisfied tcith
nothing less.
MB. OTTO BEYER
Is our General Agent for Deb Ukabhje-
ctfge (or Independent).' He is auQtorzed
to contract for Subscriptions, Advertising
and Job Work, and all such contracts tciil be
faithfully carried out by the Proprietor.
J. H. BAKER.
OUK AUSTIN LETTER,
Austin, Jan. 22.
Special Correspondence Mercury:
It seems that some apprehen-
sion is felt on the part of some
of the leaders that the Republi-
cans in the Legislature might, by
a united effort and an understood
plan of action, defeat the choice
of the Legislature for the United
States Senate by voting for the
Democrat havTiig liext the high-
est number of votes on the first
ballot. The Republicans number
fourteen in both Houses, and
forfrteen solid votes would turn
Mie scales when nearly evenly
balanced. To defeat any such
action as this on the part of the
Republicans, it is proposed by
these leaders that a public meet-
ing be held ami an expression of
sentiment had, afterwards to be
acted on in caucus that the
choice of the Legislature may be
made there.
It is openly spoken by a few,
and hinted at by others, that
there is a railroad candidate, as
they term him, for the Senate,
and that he must be defeated at
all hazards. This is by the rem-
nants of the "ox-cart delega-
tion,* whose frightened fancies
conjure up such ghosts. If there
be a railroad candidate, and he
has the sufficient quantity of
brains for the position, why I do
say, in God's name, ^end him.
If he can, by his interest in rail-
roads, iudaee the General Gov-
ernment to give that assistance
in the way of moneyed and land
subsidies the South is so justly
entitled 16 by all rules of equityx
he is exactfy the man we want
there. Too many railroads we
cannot have, and it seems to me
we ought to be willing to take
all the assistance we could possi-
bly get from the General Gov-
ernment, especially as that assis-
tance is our due, to offset the
assistance" rendered the North-
ern and Western States in build-
ing the Northern Pacific Rail-
road.
JUDGE WALKER,
of the Supreme Court, continues
dangerously ill, I learn. I would
think possibly it was chagrin, the
pangs of conscience for his late
effort to override the wishes and
will of the people, but from what
I have heard of the man's ante-
cedents, I doubt whether he pos-
sesses any ofltiiat useful, though,
in these da^k rare commodity
called conscieMe. His history,
or at least, his reputation in his
old home, Daytofi, Ohio, is not
by any means an enviable one, if
"the tale, as told to me by one
who bad heard it from a good
and true man," be strictly true.
It seems that Judge Walker
proposed to make the law his
means of a livelihood, but not
being endowed with a sufficiency
of mental calibre" to succeed fur-
ther than beeomiug a "hickory
lawyer," as they call it there,
or "jackleg lawyer," as
we call it here, and not being able
to make a living, he turned his
wits into another channel,
and essayed to get any amount
of this world's goods by confi-
dence games, swindling, and
surreptitious courses generally.
In other words, he made a
modern Burdolph of himself,
looking upon the world as his
oyster, one he meant to open
and feed upon. His name and
his fame, whence he came—and
is not this peculiar to all the
carpet-bagging office holders ?—
is not suchan one as is altogether
lovely, or that a man is apt to be
proud of. ;1 learned'this from a
gentleman who had been told* it
by a respectable and wealthy
German citizen of Dayton, Ohio,
named Herman, and who seem-
ed to be utterly astounded when
he learned that Mose Walker
was a Supreme Judge in . Texas,
a man who,^ he : said, had swin-
dled and robbed his own brother-
in-law. I give the tale as I
heard it.
the jubilation.
The Travis Rifles, a most ele-
gant, soldierly volunteer com-
pany. indeed, and splendidly
uniformed, too, turned but this
afternoon, and marching to the
Capitol Hill, to the martial strains
of, Haverly Minstrels' Brass
BaniV there fired one hundred
and two, guns, .in. honor of the
Democratic administration just
beginning* and in rejoicing at
the fruition of the people's hopes
and the maintenance of free
government and personal liberty.
Governors Coke and Hubbard
both,made, short, stirring, elo-
quent speeches, full of pathos
and patriotism.
Lusty cheers, from the assem-
bled hundreds made the hills and
valleys resound with the joy of
their hearts. M.
The General Sherman.—
The latest news from the wrecked
steamer Sherman is that she is
lying in about seven fathoms of
water, with her topmasts and
smokestack visible above the
surface, off Tubb's inlet, about
twenty-seven miles southwest of
Cape Fear. Captain Halsey will
go down some time this week to
the wreck, to see it there are any
prospects for raising the ship.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOI T.
number three.
The one thing which the un-
faithful, corrupt, peculating, pil-
fering public ;; servant dreads
above all others, and has most
reason to dread, is the news-
paper. The newspaper means
detection, exposure, punishment.
It did not always mean this.
Time was when the newspaper
was the great man's very obedi-
ent, humble servant ; taking its
opinions from his lips, always
ready to run on his errands,
thankfully gathering up the
crumbs from his table. • In those
bygone days.the newspaper's car-
dinal rule for the conduct of life
was to stand by the leaders of
the party through thick and
thin, reserving all its hard lan-
guage for the other side. But
the times change and the news-
paper changes with them. It is
almost impossible to exaggerate
the importance of this revolution
in the theory and*, practice of,
journalism that is going on, so
silently but so. swiftly, all over
the land, We hay© pointed out
its bearings and inevitable con-
sequences too often to need now
to go over them again in detail.
But it cannot be repeated too
often, that this new glare of pub-
licity, which the'Batler school of
politicians so cordially dread and
deprecate, is the best guarantee
for the future of free, popular in-
stitutions on this continent.
In securing thie newspaper that
holds itself consciously responsi-
ble to fhem, and to them only
under God, the people convert
their nominal,- titular sover-
eignty into a fact. They no
longer vote in the dark. They
know what their servants are
about from day to day, and they
have the means of letting their
servants know what they think
of them, and what they want of
them. This very back-pay busi-
ness, petty and disagreeable as
it is in many details, is never-
theless of great value as illus-
trating the tremendous power of
public opinion, articulating its
commands in the modern news-
paper. The people to-day have
a double representation. They
are represented, after a fashion,
in Congress and the State Legis-
tures; they are also represented
in the newspaper offices and in
the reporters' gallery. Looking
over the history of the past few
years, they will have little diffi-
culty in deciding as to the practi-
cal uses and advantages of this
second, unpaid representation.
Compulsory Education. —
In the New York Assembly, last
week, a bill compelling parents
and guardians who have chil-
dren between the ages of eight
and fourteen in their charge to
send them to some private or
public school for three months of
each scholastic year, was intro-
duced in the House by Mr.
Lynde, of St. Lawrence. The
penalty for non-compliance is a
fine of not less than $10 and not
exceeding $20 for each offense.
The trustees of each school dis-
trict are charged with the prose-
cution of offenders, and must in-
stitute proceedings upon a repre-
sentation of any taxpayer that
the law has been violated.
Correspondence Houston Mercury :
There are some who imagine
that some one wrote the articles
which have appeared in the Mer-
cury under the above heading;
and these some have done con-
siderable talking in the presence
of your correspondent about
these same. Having started this
ball, perhaps 1 should meet these
critics.
One says: "The writer in the
Mercury states that Texas flour
will bear sea transportation
better than any flour in the
world. If this be correct., it cer
tainly is a great point in favor of
establishing flouring mills in
Houston. But there never has
been a single pound of Texas
flour exported by the sea. 1-low
then can the writer in the Mer-
ctry say what he says P
There are hundreds in the
same boat with this one. It is
easy enough to upset their boat.
It is well known, or should be,
that the best wheat in the world
is the growth of southern lati-
tudes; and the very best is
grown at the nearest point to the
tropics at which it can be grown
at all. It is richer, heavier, and
in every respect better than that
grown in northern latitudes. In
the hot, dry atmosphere it ma-
tures more thoroughly; it ma-
tures perfectly; and in maturing
its moisture is so completely
eliminated that after the grain is
"gathered, a chemical analysis
reveals scarcely a trace. Even
the best of northern wheat yields
a large percentage of moisture to
the chemist, and this is the im-
portant point wherein Southern
wheat, asserts its great super-
iority. Flour made of Northern
wheat contains so much water
that it will scarcely bear sea
transportation even in northern
latitudes, without speedily fer-
menting and becoming worthless.
It will not bear sea-transporta-
tion in warmer climates at all.
The same remark applies to
Northern wheat, only in a less
degree. That article is exported
from the United States to Europe
in the dead of winter mainly, on
account of the great risk of its
becoming heated and ruined on
the passage. And yet, in spite
of the greatest care, it.is no un-
common thing for vessels to ar-
rive in Liverpool from New York
with a part or the whole of the
wheat cargo so melted together
from fermentation that they have
to dig it out with pickaxes. Of
course, in this condition it is un-
fit for human food.
From this danger Southern
wheat and flour are almost total-
ly exempt. They may be rocked
on the seas indefinitely, in any
climate, without injury, when
guarded with ordinary care. It
is this remarkable property of
self-preservation which causes
Southern flour to be sought for
with such eagerness in the
Northern markets. It fills a
special purpose which no other
flour in the United States will
fill—that of exportation into
warm climates. It commands a
special- and always ready market,
at a price considerably above the
l*st Northern flour. The " South-
ern flour" which we see quoted
every day in Northern papers is
manufactured from wheat grown
in Maryland, Virginia and North
Carolina. If the "Southern"
wheat grown in these compara-
tively—to us—Northern regions,
is so far superior to the wheat or
Ohio, Hlinois, &c., how infinitely
superior must be our Texas
wheat! This proposition cannot
be got around. What becomes
then of our gentlemen in the
boat t Have we not thrown
them overboard to get drowned
in the sea ? They should not be
pulled out.
I said that the best wheat in
the world is grown at the nearest
point to the tropics, &c. Per-
haps this remark needs some ex-
planation. It seems generally
understood that wheat cannot be
grown successfully in the lower,
tertiary regions of the Southern
States. This is doubtless correct.
Experience asserts it. The suc-
cessful growing of wheat in
Southern climates does not de-
pend upon temperature, but ele-
vation above the sea. Where
the proper elevation is not had
the proper dryness of the atmos-
phere cinnot be had. When
wheat is sown in the low-lands
of the Southern States, the abun-
dant moisture exhaled from the*
earth and wafted upon it from
the sea soon affects it with rnst,
which generally destroys it
before the grain lias be-
gun to form. In the higher
regions of these States this ex-
cessive moisture doe3 not exist.
Give wheat the proper elevation
and the proper soil, even in trop-
ical climates, and it will mature
to perfection. The difficulty is,
that in tropical climates this com-
bination of soil and elevation is
so rarely found. In TexaSj with
our warm climate, we have both
the soil and the elevation. Our
rich calcareo-magnesian prairies
furnish the very soil in which
wheat revels and advances to its
richest perfection. Such soil as
this covers a very large portion
of the State, and it is a fact that
its richest wheat lands have
never yet been touched by the
plow. Our capacity for the pro-
duction of wheat, the very best
in the world, is simply enormous.
There are some other gentle-
men in a boatj to whom I will
pay my respects next.
Yours, t.
Grocers.
WILLIAM D. CLEVELAND.
I-VIISTG-:
5000 f aae< I'rall's Kerosene Oil
600 Bolls Buffalo Bagging.
3110 Boxes all Grajes Tobsffo
350 M. all Grades Cigars.
350 3a{i Co
500 Sacks Texas Flour.
50 Barrol9 New Backnhci
Together with a complete stock of
Staple, Family and Fancy Groceries
and every variety ol Wood and Willow TVare,
TEXAS SUGAR AND SYRUP
from ten (10) plantations will begin to arrive in
a fow days and be gold at New Orleans prices.
PRSOJSAL ATTENTION
GIVEN TO SALE AND SHIPMENT OF
COTTON.
I DO NOT BUY COTTON,
but handle strictly on commission, a.id will at
(kit time, and during the ssason, advance liber-
allj on consignment.
WM. D. CLEVELAND,
Wholesale Grocer <& Gen. Commission Merchant,
37 Main Street, Houston, Texas.
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JOHN COLLINS,
THE G:R OICIER
AND
DEALER,
HOUSTON
TEXAS.
H. HENKE,
NEW ORLEANS GROCERY STORE.
CHEAPEST GBOGXBY IN HOUSTON.
Opposite Market, on Congress Street
NEW SHIPMENTS EVEBY DAY.
Finest Articles -Cheapest Prices in tlie
City.
*3"Come and s e us and be persuaded. *£*
declO-lm
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
187 4—HAVANA LOTTERY.
ORDINARY DRAWfSGS,
Class No. 917 draws January 8tli.
"J " 918 " " 28th.
" " 919 " February lTth.
" " 920 " March 9th.
Capital Prize $100,000
Second Prize 50,000
Third Prize 25,000
Fourth Prize 10,000
450 prizes from $5000 to $300 each.
Price of Whole Tickets $20
" Half " ... 10
" Quarter Tickets 5
Address all orders to
MANUEL ORRANTIA,
janl lm 168 Common street, N. 0.
CiRPET WAREHOUSE, 17 Chartres
street, New Orleans. A. Brousseau,
Importer and Dealer, offers wholesale and
retail, Carpeting, 1000 pes. English and
American. Oil Cloths—Floor, Table and
Enamel. Matting—1000 rolls, white,
check and fancy. Window Shades, Cor-
nices, Table and Piano Covers. Curtains
—Lace and Nottingham Lace. Brocatelle,
Cotelines, Terries. Reps, etc. Hair Cloth,
Gimp, Plush, etc.
janl 6m a. BROUSSEAU.
NOTICE.—Having been appointed and
qualified as the Guardian of the mi •
nors of Isaac Colman, deceased, this is to
notify all persons having claims against
the community of said estate to present
the same to Mrs. Rosalie Colman and my-
self for adjustment and settlement, and all
persons indebted to said estate will make
pavment to Mrs. R. Colman and myself.
SAM. STERNE,
dec30-lm Guardian, &c.
MAYOR'S OFFICE, CITY OF HOUS-
TON, December 27, 1873.—Notice
is hereby given that all Coupons due on
the 1st day of January, 1874, on Bonds of
the city of Houston will be paid on pre-
sentation at the NINTH NATIONAL and
NATIONAL CITY BANKS OF NEW
YORK, as the respective Bonds call for.
Coupons payable in Houston will be
paid on presentation at the BANKING
HOUSE OF T. W. HOUSE.
T. II. SCANLAN,
dec30-lm Mayor.
RENZ0 G-RUNEWALD,
93 Main Street, Houston,
Sole Aagent for
STENWAY'S PIANOS,
septatfr
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
SCHMIDT & KOSSE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
HARD'WA HE MERCHANTS.
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
0KE.SEXT CIGAR STORE,
(Tno doors below Old Capitol.)
N. & F. CLEM0W,
HAVANA AND DOMESTIC CIGARS,
Cigarettes, Tobacco, Pipes, Etc.
Call and see us.
jan6 3m NELSON ft FRANK.
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()UMO> CITY LIBRARY.
ESTABLISHED 1870.
1500 Volumes—Terms 75c. per Month.
Books Changeable at Pleasure.
New Additions :
Handy Andy.—Lover.
Divine Love and Wisdom.—Swedenborg.
Jack Harkaway's School Days.
Golden Grain.—Fargeon.
Joseph the Jew.
Mystery of Edwin Drood. completed.
Leighton Grange.—Miss Braddon.
Master of Greylands.—Mrs. Wood.
News, Books, Stationery & Varieties.
janl3-tf
BALDWIN & CO,,
S4 Main Street.
ENGLISH-GERMAN SCHOOL,
At the new School-house on Milam street, be-
tween McEinney and Walker Sts.
SIR. THOENSSEN & MBS. DePELCHlN
Teachers.
B ith Languages thoroughly taught.
For terms, apply to tha Teacher*.
Houston, October 18. 1873. janl my
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EOR«E BUR HI.I
SOKST FOB
chabtkb oak ocok stoves,
amebioan ciroulab bath,
bdbbeb belting and packing.
GESES4L BABDWAB
NAILS, CTJTLXBY,
mitt
AND TIN WARE.
S3 Main Str«'.
NOTICE.
Office Stock Ass. or
Houston, July 9, 1873.
The following action was had and passed by
theBoard of Directors July 8, 1873 :
Resolved, That the Stock Association ol Texas
will pay $210 for the detection and conviction
of any party for the theft of stock from any of
thiB Association.
8. W. ALLEN, President.
T. P. ItUKBOOK. Secretary jnljfi dfcwtf.
JLLItt Is GOHLMAN, '
Dealers in Furniture, Carpets, Oil Cfcth, Mat-
ting, Window Shades, and general House
Furnishing Goods; Picture Frames, Cornices,
Moss and Hair Mattresses made to order.
MOBBIS' BUILDING. 67 and 69 Main St.,
augl2-ly. HOUSTON, TEXAS
JJOUSTON CEMENT, PIPE A>D
ARTIFICIAL STONE WORKS.
Pipes for Sewers, Drun Pipes for hardens.
Outhouses, etc.; Stone Pavements, Vases of
every variety of pattern for Gardens, Lawns and
Cemeteries: Chimney Flues; and all sorts of use-
ful and oraamental work in Artificial Stone.
AU work warranted to give satisfaction, or no
pay expected.
JAMR8 A. OOUBTSEY,
Proprietor.
Office and Factory—Montgomery Boad.
PostaSlce Address—Lock Bo: 151. Houston,
Texas. fobH-tf
W.
J. KUTCHINS,
COTTON
—AND—
COMMISSION MERC HA N T,
Houston, Texas.
Cettoii consigned to me at Houston or Galves-
ton will meet prompt ttentlon,
A fulls tock of BAGGING and TIES oonstantly
cn hand. sesUif
CHAS. WABSXCKS.
B. TUFFLY.
B. TUFFLY & CO.,
Manufacturers of and Dealers in
STICK AND FANCY CANDIES
of every description.
Confectioneries
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Restantics Cream & Oyster Saloon
NO. 10 CONGRESS STREET,
Houston, T3xas.
oct28-my
JOHN ACHENEACH,
MASUFACTUBEB OF
BOOTS and. SHOES
OF EVEBY DESCRIPTION.
Preston Street, next to Ditgen
HOCSTOS, TEXAS.
trC" All Orders Promptlv Pilled.
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HO! FOR SIN ANTONIO !
I am uowjrunning regularly an accommoda-
tion line of STAGES from Austin to 8an Anto-
nio, carrying passengers three dollars cheaper
than any other line. Particular attention given
to all express packages and freight, and solicit a
share of public patronage.'
nov27-3m JA8. FINNCANE, Propr.
8 ,M ALLEN. A. HIHKLE
ALLEN & HESTKLE,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
Pi lie and Cypress Lumber,
—AND—
SHINGLES.
?27-tf
G--A.S: G-_A_S: O-^S!
DECHA17MES & DUNN,
49 Main Street.
ALL KINDS OF PLUMBING AND
GAS FITTING DONE.
nov!3-tf
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I)MIMSTBATRIX NOTICE.
All persons are notified that the under-
signed has been duly appointed Adminis-
tratrix of the estate of M. Jacobs, dee'd.
Parties having claims against said estate
will present the same as the law directs,
and parties indebted thereto will make
payment to the undersigned or her regu-
larly appointed agent.
HORTENSE JACOBS,
jan2Q-lw Adm'x &c.
P. T. T. B.
PR0DL1VS TEXAS TOXIC BITTERS,
Compounded from the befft VEGETABLE DRCG3 and the PUREST BOURBON WHISKIES,
elug the best preventive of Chills and Fever ever put upon the Market.
A GREAT APPETIZER,
Strengthening and invigoratirg the system, toning the stomach and aiding digestion—a iroit
pleasant and agreeable beverage.
At Wholesale aad Retail, and Constantly on Draught, at
THE GEM SALOON,
CONGRESS STREET, NEAR THE POST OFFICE,
Where the Proprietor will always be found by his friends.
The Best Supplied Bar in Texas. S. O. P. Brandy and Old Crow Whisky,
Always on Hand.
nov25dtf T. J. PR1NOLE, Proprietor
E. MILBY.
G. L. PORTER.
W. H. PALM EL
MILBY, PORTER & CO.
WHOLESALE GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
Comer of Main and Commerce Streets>
Houston, - - Texas.
I3NT STORE ^.ISTXD TO ARRIVE:
BACON, LARD, HAMS,
FLOUR, WHISKY, TOBACCO,
POTATOES, ONIONS, PRUNES,
CURRANTS, RAISINS, KROUT,
SUGAR, COFFEE.
ALSO A FULL VARIETY 01? BOXED AND CANNED GOODS
For Sale to the Trade at Jobbing Prices.
Examine our Goods and Prices.
Liberal Advances made on consignments of Cotton.
g23 ly
WM. CHRISTIAN & CO
LOOKOUT
FOR THE
SIGN
OE THE
NOS. ? P
AND 3P
MA7F ST,
Frrston.
No. 28 and 30 MAIN STREET, HOUSTON, TFXAS.
COTTON AND WOOL FACTORS
AND
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Make Liberal Cash Advances on all Produce on Hand.
Special attention given to the sale and shipment of eotton anlWooL Keep conitantly on hand
a large stock of Staple Grooeries. Agents for the sale of Odell's Cotton Oreck, Wallis &
Beard'slmproved Iron Ties, Gray's Ingersol'a Cotton Presses, Eagle Cotton Gins and Coleman's
Mills.
O-We call special attention to Our SUGAR and SYBUP.
TECE
HOUSTON MERCURY
• r V *•- •. * ; V ; i, J. ; •
STE A TVT
Jol Priiiiii Esllisli
The public are respectfully informed that the Proprietor has in-
creased his facilities for all kinds of
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING.
He has this month added to his already large establishment,
T H REE NEW FKSiSSXiSs
AN ENTIRELY NEW BOOK BINDERY,
And a new and improved
STEAM E.ULI2STG AXAOSZSrXZ.
— Also—Four Thousand Pounds of
New and Beautiful Type of the latest styles,
and we are now prepared to fill all orders promptly for
Books, Pamphlets, Basiness and Show Cards, - , :•
Mammoth Posters, Hand Bills, Dodgers, Ac.,
Account Book Headings, Ball Tickets,
Blank Notices, Bonds and Coupon Books,
Billheads, Bills of Lading, Bills of Fare,
Blank Books. Business Cards, Checks,
Certificates of Deposit, Commutation Tickets,
Deposit Tickets, Drafts and Notes,
Dray Receipt Books, Envelops (tinted, Ac..)
Election ckets, Festivel Tickets, Fancy Billheads,
Freight and Fare Tiekets, Handbills,
v ' Hotel Registers, Labels, Law Blanks,
Law Cases, Leaflets, Letter Cmmla-s,
Letter Headings, Memorandum Billheads,
Manifests or Waybills, Money Receipts in Books,
Monthly Statements, Newspapers, Note Circulars,
Note Headings, Order Books, Orders of Dancing, "
Pamphlets, Prices Current Circulars, Programme?,
Policies, (Fire and Life Insurance,)
Posters (all sizes and colore.) Railroad Blanks,
Restaurant Tickets, Press "Work Executed, &c.
AT PRICES DEFYING COMPETITION.
TERMS CASH,
J. H. BAKER, Proprietor
w
ARD, DEWEY, & €0.
5000 New Mattrasses,
ALL SIZES—ALL QUALITIES!
Filled with every variety of materia
suitable for Mattrass work.
AT PRICES HERETOFORE UNHEARD Ol
WARD, DEWEY & CO.,
Penitentiary Leasees, Warehouse.
mv6-tf
E. FAIRFAX GRAY,
civil engineer and land agent
Offlos in Gray's Building, Boom 3, Fannin
street, opposite Court House, p. O. Box 194.
Jjltf
JAMES BUTE,
Importer and Dealer in
Paints, Oils, Colors, Varnishes,
WALL PAPEK, &c. i FUBOLM FLUID,
Gostk'i Portable Oas Lamps
HOUSTON, TEXAS.
nor8-ly
JOB WORK.
Circulars, BUI Heads, Receipts, Drafts,
Letter Heads, and Job Work of all kinds
executed in the most artistic manner,
with the greatest dispatch, and at the
lowest living rates, at the Mercury Steam
Printing Esiaty"]iment, over the First-
office. * " v.
Railroads.
Q.ALTESTON,
HOUSTON & HENDERSON
RAILROAD.
OS ASV Am*
ACGl'sT 4th (Sundays Excepted)
Leave
Connecting at Barrlsburs with
G , H. 4 S. A. B. B. for Colum-
bus sad the West, ocmnootlsg st
GALVESTON ) Houston with International and
J G. Northern and.Houstcn Texa
0:16 A. M. ) J antral Ballways.
Leave ) ACCOMMODATION, stopping
GALVESTON }
1:05 A. M. ) at>U Stations. !: !
. Leave ) Connecting with H. & Texas
GALVESTON > Central for St. Louis and points
1:00 P. M. J North.
t Taking passengers from H. A
Leaves ) X. 0., connecting at Harris-
HOUSTON 1 burgwith G„ H. k 8. A. P.
6:30 A. M. J B. for Oolumboc.
Leaves ) EXPBESS, connecting with Oen-
HOUSTON } tral, and with G„ H. 4 8. A. B.
2:00 P. M. J B. at Harriaburg.
) Taking passengers from H. & 1.
HOUSTON S Central, International, and Great
6.45 P. M. ) Northern.
SEXPE
tral, a
B. at
Leaves )
IOUSTON J
.45 P. M. )
) Accommoda
> ton at 10 A.)
) Houston U.
SUNDAYS
Accommodation, leaves Gal ret-
M, Beturningleavea
Depot at 3:30 P. M.
TBAINS LEAVE HABBISBUBG for COLD If
BUS DAILY (except Sundays), at 9:00 P. M.
jetS-Dtf.
G. B. iriCHOLS.
Superintendent
Tour Route
TO THE > J 32
NORTH, E AST & WEST
Houston ail Teias Central Railwa
CHANGE OF TIME.
connecting with THE
Mi, K. 6c T. Railway
-B JED RIVER CITY!
Giving an ALL B&IL LINE to BALTIMOF.K
BOSTON, CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, NEW
YOKE, PHILADELPHIA. ST. LOUIS,
WASHINGTON CITY, and all
prominent points North.
East and West
UN AND AFTER -
Sunday, November 16, 1873,
Passenger Trains will ran as follows.
EXPRESS
a. m.; Bed Bive
Loais,
fO, 6:80
Leaves Houstoh
DAILY,
Saturday Excepted
4LOO P. M. 4
Accommodat'n
Leavxs Houston
DAILY,
(Sunday Excepted)
9:00 A.M.
Arriving at Austin 7<00
a. m.; Bed Biver (Sty,
10:60 a. m.; SW. ~
8:40 p. m.; Chicago,
a. m.; Louisville, 7:00
a. m.; Indianapolis, S:28 a.
m.; Oolumbus, O., 10:Wa,
m.; Pittsburg at 6:00 p. m.;
Philadelphia, 7:18 a. m ;
Washington City, 7:25 a
m.; Baltimore, 8:*e a. so
New York, 12:30 p. xa. . .
Betoning, ic^Tes -itx?
Biver City, 5:00p.m.; Aus-
tin, 10:80 P- m., arriving
in Houston, ! J3) p.m., aad
Galveston, 4:£C p. m
Arriving st Austin, 3:60
p. m.; Waco, 9:10 p. m..
Biver City, 7:45 a. re.
Betuming, leaves Bed
Biver City at 7:16 p. m.
[Saturday excepted',, iVaco,
7:00 a. m.; Austin. 9:00a
m.; arriving in Houston
6:8T p. fit., and Galveston,
j >;30, p. zn.
Pullman's Palace Sleeping Cars.
Are attached to Express Trains between Hens-
ton and Austin, and Houston and Coralcana.
Passengers for Waco mutt take Accommoda-
tion Train leaving Houston at 9:00 a. m.
CONNECTIONS,
At Hearoe with International,
(Sundays excepted)
At Dallas and Sherman
ciflc Bail way and El Paso i
note in Northern T«xae.
At Waco with dai./ i
At Mexia with line of j
Butler, on Mondays an
At Ledbatter with C
At McDade with <
At Austin with
New Braunfeds, San ^
THBOUGl
Sold at Houston, Austin,1
vert, Waco, Corsicana, Dal
Sherman, vis Bed Biver Cli
all points of note between the,
ciilc Oceans, within tho limits*
States and Canada, Also via sti
Antonio end Weatherford.
Paris and Ciarksville.
For Through Bites apply to Station gentsT
, J. DERAHB, si " ■&>-
Utn'l Sopt. J
J. WALDO
. d. F. and T. A. aug2-ti
the
LONE STAR ROUTE!
International & Great Northern
RAILROAD.
390 Miles Completed, aad in Operatl a.
THE ONLY ALL RAIL BOOTS
FROM THE GULF
TO
MARSHALL, JEFFERSON, SHREVEPOBT,
and all points North, Esst and West.
On and after Sunday, January 25, 1874,
AN EXPRESS TRAIN
Will leave
UNION DEPOT,
Houston, Daily,
For Willie. Waverlv. PheJp,
Huntsville, Dodge, Stivergid
Trinity, Loveladv,: Crockett
Grapeland, Palestine. Neche
Jacksonville,Troupe, Overton
Kilgore, Longview, Tyler
and Mineola.
Bt-turning: Arrive*itBoos-
AT 4:00 P. M. I ton at le Noon
Making connection at Long-
view 'with Texas and Pacific
Railway for Mar snail, Jef-
ferson, Shreveport, Lit-
tle Rock, St. Louis
and all Points
North, East and "West, and it
Mineola for Dallas.
Connecting at Palestine westward for !>>jg
lass, Oakwoods, Eeechi, Jewett, Marques, Lake
Eoglewood and Hearne.
Malting close connections at HEABNE with
Houston and Texas Central Bail road for ai> •
point* North and Northeast.
PASSENGEBS FEOM NEW OBLE/"S AS
GALVESTON
Going by this Route change can at.
UNION DEPOT, HOUSTl.
Stages
Connect at
Crockett lex Naoogu
cbes, at Palestine for Ath
ens, at Jacksonville let
Busk, at Overton for Hen-
j derson, at Jewett forCen-
i treville. at Oakwoodsfor
J Butler and Fairfield.
Freights received st Houston from connect-
ing lines forwarded promptly.
Claims for loss, damage or overcharge adj-
usted on presentation of proper papmto tie
General Freight Agent.
For rates or further Information appl; to
H. M. HOXIE, Gen't Sup't
ALLEN HeCOY, 8. M. MILL Kit.
Gen'l Freight Agt. Gen'l Ticket Agt
October 21,1871.
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Baker, J. H. & Wilson, J. H. Houston Daily Mercury (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 117, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 24, 1874, newspaper, January 24, 1874; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth232966/m1/1/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.