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Wednesday; July 21> 1869-
Judge .Henry Beaumont, late Chief
Justice of Calhoun county, has re-
moved to California.
Mr. Howard having declined the
mission to China, Gen. J. Boss
BroWne will remain in charge of that
w At Batjhurst, India, out of a popa*
Nation *of 4,000, over 1,000 have died
with the Cholera. In two or three
hours after the attack, the patient
dies. __
B. Bayles, an engineer on the Hon-
duras Railroad, says there ftre six
hundred laborers at work on the road
and the number is constantly in-
creasing.
Mtft B-lISiBOAD PBMVBCTS.
Let the people look to the vest
Legislature. It will be the most im^
portant body thatrhas aesembled in
Texas for years. Let fools, drones
and -knaves not have a place in it.
/
A-correspondent of the Galveston
Civilian mentions a case yf yailotv
fever in Brenham. He says the pa-
tient died of black vomit. Doabtless
that correspondent was mistaken.
Among the graduates at the late
commencement of Princeton .College,
we notice the name of Mr; William
Hutchison, son of Rev. Dr. Hutchison,
of our city. Mr. Hutchison retuwusd
to bis home on Friday last.
The colored voters of Texas have
it in t&eir power£o obtain the respect
of the white people of Texas by the
course they can persue in the 'coming
election. How ? By voting with the
white
Texas has it in her power to make
the most harmtadous reconstruction
. of any «£ the Southern States. We only
.need to-work all together to do itu He
will be an enemy to his country who
fails to do it.
After dne consideration the Galyes
tonians have determined, in order to
improve their bar, to adopt the
seouring process, by employing a pro-
peller, and attaching a drag, which
they now have in process of conetrac
.tion, and tfeey hope to be ready to
-commence the work within fifteen or
twenty days.
The Badicals oi Texas find thorns
*31 aleng their pathway, and 'not the
least tormenting one, is the great re-
joicingof the New York; Tribune at
the triumph of Conservatism in Vir-
ginia. \ Come away from that sinking
ship, G Radicate and save yourselves
while you can ! Come over and help
as! 0 : .. -V ' '
la "Virginia the Walker, party, or
the Conservatives, lead by the Bepub
licana, elected to the Legislature 128
white and 3 colored members, while
the Wells, or Radieal party, elected
41 white and 15 colored members.
In. the House, the Conservatives have
a majority of £7 votes, in th^ Senate
19 v'otes^and on joint ballot 75 votes.
r Virginia has done well, but Texas
' will do better.
Walker; the newly elected Gover-
nor of Virginia, is a native of New
York, a lawyer by profession, and for
many years a citizen and successful
lawyer in that great city, Chicago. In
1865, he settied in Norfolk, Va., and
entered into commercial pursuits
Though he had been a life-long Dem-
ocrat, he had been identified with the
Bepublicau party. He is President
of the Exchange National Bank, and
will soon be the Governor of the Old
Dominion* \
With Houston as one of the termini*
we have, first, the railroad to Galves-
ton, which is kept in capital order for
business.
Running in a westerly direction,
we have the Brazoria Railroad, now
running to 'Columbia and graded to
Wharton; and connected with this,
the road to Columbus on the west
bank of tbe Colorado, and there is a
fair prospect that a road will be ex-
tended westward to San Antonio,
where it will connect with some road
to the Pacific. The main trunk is
already graded' some fifteen miles up
the Colorado river toward LaGrange.
The Texas Central is now running
to Hearae, and in a few days will be
running to Calvert, 138-miles'in the
interior from Houston. A branch ot
this road crosses the Brazos and runs
to Brenham, and hands are at work
extending it to Austin. Work has
been commenced upon aaother-branch
runnieg to Waco. ' The main trunk
will be rapidly pushed northward to-
wards Red River.
Extending eastward from our city,
a road has once been in running order
to the Texas line at Grange, and the
iron is still there of an excellent qual-
ity. dt was expected this would con-
nect us with New Orleans through
the Opelousas road. The Picayune
of the 16ib, and Times of the 17th,
say Mr. Charles Morgan is deter
mined to push tha road through to
the Texas line at all hazards. The
same papers say the -Chattanooga
company will push their road right
through to the Texas line at the same
point. This last road will leave the
Mississippi at Donaldsonville, and
run-due west to Houston.
Starting from the Mississippi river
towards Texas, another road leaves
the river nearly opposite Wicksburg,
and will soon be completed toShreve
port. A road, is now running from
Shreveport to Marshall, Texas, and
this road will soon be in operation to
Earpville on the Sabine river. In a
.comparatively short time, we may
ihope, this road will form a connec-
tion-with the Texas Central.
North of Texas, Little Ro"k bids
fa:r to become an important Railroad
center. A road is in progress of con
stsaction from Memphis to Little
Rock, by Gen. Fremont and some
French capatilists,
Ftorn Little Rock workmen are en-
gaged building a road to Fort Smith.
This will foraa a tangent to what is
called tiie Lawrence and Galveston
Road.
Between Little Bock and Fulton
runs the line of two very important
roads, tbe Memphis and El Paso, and
the International, projected from
Cairo to little Bock, Fulton, Laredo
and San Bias.
Fulton on Bed River will also be an
important railroad center. It will be
on the line q£ the Texas Central and
Mr. Joy's KansasBoad, with a branch
to Ironton and St. Louis, and on the
line of the Memphis and El Paso ; and
also the International Boad running
from Cairo longitudinally towards
the Pacific coast-at Mazatlan.
Most of these roads are in tbe hands
of lite and energetie men who are
determined to push them through. A
brighter day is dawning upon Texas
than she has ever yet seen.
There are two points that our Hous-
ton capitalists ought carefully to
watch. The early construction of a
road eastward to connect our city with
New Orleans and a close connection
with tbe Colorado Boad, and its early
extension to San Antonio, the great
commercial emporium of Western
Texas.
people and talked to them face to face
upon their duty, and the consequence
was that the Constitution was re-
jected by the colored vote because it
disfranchised the white men.
In South Carolina, her most tal-
ented men canvassed the State in
favor of conservative action, and
henee her liberal suffrage clause,
which disfranchises none.
In Tennessee, the colored voters
have come over to the Conservatives
by many thousands, and all because
there was free talk between Che white
and black upon the subject.
• If the Badicals should elect a single
officer in the State, it will be our own
fault, for if proper efforts be made,
they cannot elect a single Justice of
the peace. Our leaving the negroes
to themselves in politics, was
simply to yield the field to the Rad-
icals, in the last election. It has
made tbe<colored people believe that
we are too proud to reason with
them, and hence they have listened to
white men whose aim has not been
the good of the State.
It is only necessary to appeal to the
reason of the colored race to convince
them that harmony between both
races is absolutely essential to tbe
happiness and prosperity of both and
that they-san only be successful and
prosperous in life by living and acting
in accord with the mass of the white
people.
Then let every white and black
man in favor of conservative action
work with untiring activity, and ap-
peal kindly to that part of the colored
race, who have bfeen misled and de
ceived by white' Badicals to come
over and kelp us redeem Texas from
all danger of Badical rule forever.
Commence working at once. Make
no delay about it, and let there be no
flagging in action. Work on till the
election is over. And during the elee
tion, let all Conservatives give up
business for the time, and devote
themselves 'to. the redemption and
salvation of Texas. Close up your
stores, shops and offices, leave your
.farms, go to the polls and remember-
ing what a curse it would be to your
country, for the Radicals even to carry
a respectable minority of votes. Work
tc give them - ueh a defeat as no party
ever had before.
sLet every man do his whole duty.
Fbqh the Bio Gbandk.—Wehave
Brownsville papers to the 16th.
The Bio Grande has been up, but
not excessively high.
' Business in Brpwnsville is dull and
some of its citizens are leaving.
Tbe' Brownsvillians complain that
Commodore Morgan only gives them
a semi-monthly mail.
The State of Tamaulipas has been
visited with one of its diurnal revolu-
tions, in which Canales was pro
claimed Governor.
The town of Galena has been pil
l&ged by bandits.
suffering among both whites and
blacks. Thfi latter had worked hard
and had finer prospects for crops than
any previous year since they were
freed, ^
One family of Germans near town
were three days on- the top of their
house without food, when a boat was
sent to their relief.
From the Goliad Guard :
Not safclsfhd at reaching the high-
est high water mark shown to the
oldest inhabitant, it is still rising this
evening—Friday, Ckh inst—in conse-
quence of which nearly every farm in
tue valley of the Sau Antonio will be
ruined. Cotton, com, castor bean,
etc., will suffer alike. Alas ! for hu-
man calculations Ote week ago
corn, delivered in the fall, could have
been bought for 35 cents per bushel ;
now an engagement could not be
made at any reasonable rate.
Deplorable accounts re^cl os every
hoar of the destruction of cnps upon
the valley of the San Anto ;io river
by the overflow. The water must be
higher by five feet than ever known
before.
The water is over nearly au the
prairie between the town ano ^rhe
ferry. / ^
CITY ITEMS- >
We had quite a heavy shower
of rain yesterday evening, which
cooled the air and washed our streets
clean and nice, and from appearances
this will be repeated until further
notice.
Prof. Stanley has kindly fur-
let axil WORK.
Yellow Fever Kcp*rt ii BrMham.
, While in Brenham on tbe 16th iost
I,was informed that a man in the out-
skirts of tbe town was dying of yellow
feter. Host no time in making in-
quiry into the matter, and therefore
soon discovered that the OQly ground
for the report was the fact that a sick
ipan in the suburbs had thrown up
some discolored matter, which alarm-
ists lost no time in declaring to be
black vomit. I do not believe the
ease.in question was yellow fever, nor
does any one in Breiiham think so.
W. F. Clarke.
The Huntiville Presbytery of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church;
will meet, at Anderson, Grimes conn
ty, on Friday night before the 4th
Sabbath, in September next,
wlm A. J. McGowm, S. C.
We had the pleasure of meetiDg
our old Fayette county friend, A.
Kleinert, at our office, on his re-
turn from a visit to Europe. He
comes back improved in health, and
content to spend his lite in Texas.
He informed us that he was ii vari
ous places in Virginia, while the elec-
tion was progressing, and that by
common consent,' shops, stores and
offices were closed, and work every
where expended, and that the white
voters were out, frbely mingling with
the colored, and talking with them
upon the political situation, and ho
doubt, to this is attributable in a
great measure, the triumph of Con-
servatism by such a large majority io
that State.
It is an example that may well be
followed in Texas. We have too long
let bad white men seek the ears bf the
oolored race without proper efforts to
counteract the poison they have sown.
The very fact, that these men have
been unceasing in their efforts to miB*
lead the negroes, and that we have
done nothing comparatively to unde*
ceive them, are the patent causes of
tbe influence which Radicals have ex-
ercised among them.
In Mississippi, it will be remem-
bered, that the very best men of tbe
| State went out among the colored
A LIVE REWSPAJPER.
If ribaldry, low and ■vulgar jest,
misrepresentation, meanness, scurril
ity and villificatieu, can.alone consti
tute sa live newspaper, then we shall
never publish one.
If it be necessary to make a live
paper to put into it matter which
would bring the blush of shame to
the cheek of virtue, modesty or de-
cency, (hen we shall never publish
one.
If it be life in a newspaper to at-
tempt to misrepresent an adversary
or opponent, to distort his language
aod give it a meaning never -intend
ed, then we shall never publish one.
If it be life in a newspaper to pub-
lish the indecent details of the cor-
ruptions of our race, such details as
should make any father refuse to let
his children read the paper, then we
shall never publish one.
If low and mean personalities make
life in a newspaper, then ours will
never have such life.
Bnt if decency of tone, a respectful
treatment of opponents, and a sacred
regard of public morality, give life to
a newspaper, then ours shall have
life.
If the advocacy of the great mate-
rial interests of our State and country
give life to a newspaper, then ours
shall have life.
If a liberal expenditure of money,
if a careful examination of a large
number of exchanges, and the selec-
tion of matters of interest from them,
will give life to a newspaper, then
ours shall be lively.
If an able corps ot correspondents
will give life to a newspaper, then
ours shall have life.
If all our energies, all our means
con pled with a determination never
to write and publish anything which
ice should fear to see in the records of
Heaven, will give life to a newspaper,
then ours shall be lively.
Notes tf the Flood.
The Lavaca and Navidad rivers
have been very high in Jackson coun-
ty, overflowing the plantations in the
low lands.
The Cotton Factory at Prairie Lea
was entirely swept away.
A correspondent of the Galveston
News, writing from Victoria, says:
The Pontoon Bridge at Kemper
was carried away.
Mr Murphea, on Price's creek, iost
on his place, besides his entire crop,
a luge number of valuable horses.
and an entire family of negroes, who
lived in the river bottom, are report-
ed lOBt.
nished us with the following facts in
relation to the weather which we take
pleasure in laying befor e oar readers :
On Saturday at 1 o'clock, the ther-
mometer stood at 86.'* Sunday and
Monday at same hour, 91.
The rain on Monday evening at 6
o'clock, reduced this to 79 Q Prof.
Stanley has promised to give us any
changes of note from time to time;
for which we feel much obliged.
Our city is full of bad smells
We meet them everywhere, and it be-
comes one and all to abate them. Oar
authorities should see to it that all
premises and streets are kept clean.
Let every housekeeper go and par-
chase some copperas or carbolic acid
and scatter it aboat their premises
freely. One bottle of the latter will
be sufficient for a family. If the
former be used, let it be done very
ireely. Neglect to attend to this
important matter may cause serious
sickness, and no eitizen should even
sleep upon it.
Horse Stolen —Nathan McLen*
don, a freedman, living near Judge
Lawrence's residence in this city, had
a very fine horse stolen from bis
stable Sunday night.
Prsentation.—The citizens, yes-
terday, presented Marshal Davis with
a gold badge as an evidence of their
appresiatlon of the active and impar-
tial manner in which he discharges
his duty as an officer.
The Weather.—The apparently
higher temperature of Monday, to
which we alluded, although it did not
in reality exist, may be accounted for,
we think, by the fact that an almost
uninterrupted action of solar heat on
the sidewalks, &c., of our city, occa-
sioned a more than usual amount of
upward-refleeted heat, thereby caus
ing a corresponding effusion of per
spiration, which, in locations unacted
upon by an existing and cooling
breeze) precluded the comfortable re
suits of evaporation.
To-day it may be apprehended that
the rain fall of last evening (under
similar circumstances as to solar ac
tion and the consequent increase of
evaporated moisture from the earth)
may render such a cause and its ef-
fects more apparent
Houston Cotton Press Company.
An adjourned meeting, July 20th,
1869, of stockholders (annual meet
ing) met at the office of Col. W. J.
Hutchins at 10 o'clock a. m. Present,
H. B. Percy, President; W. J. Hutch
ins, T. W. House, C. S Longoope, S.
L. Allen, A. J. Burke, and Henry
Sampson, Secrtary pro tem. Same
stock represented by members and
proxies as before. A resolution was
adopted that an election for officers
be now held, when the following
named gentlemen were unanimously
elected, Directors for the following
year, (majority of stock, fitfy four
shares represented): A. J. Burke, W.
J Hatching,T. W. House, R S. Willis
and H- R Percy. T. W. House was
elected Presidec t, H. R. Percy Vice
Presiden, and A. J. Burke Secretary.
Meeting adjourned.
Henry Sampson,
Secretary pro tem
Recorder's Court—J. G. Tracy
presiding.—The attendance at this
Court yesterday was not as large as
we have seen, but from the well
known character of one of the ac-
cused, we felt fully compensated for
our trouble. Miss Cora Lee, of
that peculiar rich ebony color, and
that highly aromatic flavor so much
sought after by certain philanthro-
pists and office seekers these days,
made her Becond appearance before
of an aggravated assault and battery
on her person. (It will be remem-
bered that Cora was seut to the Cala-
boose Monday in default of payment
of fine and costs, which she refused to
pay. It seems, however, that several
of her friends of the opposite sex,
rival suiters perhaps, formed a
joint purse and paid her out).
Smarting uBder the disgrace and
burning' for revenge, Cora immediate
ly repaired to the shanty occupied by
Margaret and took summary ven-
geance by giving Margaret an awful
beating and chokiDg, and breaking
her goods and chatties consisting of
a pitcher which cost twenty-five cents
and two saucers which cost a dime.
For this belligerant spirit and actua
hostilities Margaret cried for help
Officer Tallant proceeded to then and
there take Cora into custody, and
hence her appearance before this
court. Cora was .impudent, dis'
courteous and impertinent, and his
Honor fined Cora $70 and cost. She
said she wished it was $500, which
amount not being paid, Cora was sent
to keep Mr. Patrick Fox company at
the Davis House.
Mr. Schiminne swore out a writ
against the driver of dray No. 71, for
emptying a load ot dead animals near
his premises in this city.
Nothing farther appearing, tne
court adjourned until 9 o'clock this
morning.
by telegraph.
We find in an exchange the follow-
ing statement of the negro Turner's
connection with the passing of coun-
terfeit money :
About the 10th of June, Marian
Harris, a mulatto woman, from Han-
cock county, passed several hundred
dollars' worth of bills on the First
National Bank of Jersey City. They
bad been stolen from the Treasury at
Washington, while unsigned. The
signatures were then forged. After
her arrest the woman made the fol-
lowing statement, which we copy from
the Augusta Chronicle :
She stated that some time since she
went North with a lady from Macon,
whom she left soon after her arrival
in Philadelphia. She said that she
formerly knew H. M. Turner intimate-
ly when they both lived in Hancock
county, and meeting him North, the
intimacy was resumed. She traveled
a good deal between Washington and
Philadelphia and often saw Turner in
the former city. On a day between
the first and fifth of June, Turner
gave to her in Washington between
$1600 to $1700 of this spurious cur
reocy, which she had been passing,
instructed her how to get rid of it,
and made her promise to divide with
him the good money she received.
She then returned to Philadelphia,
and from that time to the tenth was
in constant correspondence with
Turner on tbe subject. On tbe tenth
of the month she. started to Georgia.
She passed a hundred dollars of the
money in Wilmington, where she
stopped several days, a hundred dol-
lars at anotner place, . and finally
one hundred and fifty dollars in this
city, as stated above.
Associated Press Dispatches.
DEFERRED DISPATCHES
Washington, Jnly 20.—A full re-
port of the Texas vs. White & Childft
case, including arguments by the
counsel, is published to day in Pas-
chal's twent? fifth volume of TexaB
Reports. The case corer* two hundred *
of the seven hundred pages ot. tb|>
new volume. The volume also OfVQ-■
tains the Ceaser O-riffiu case. Griffin
had been discbargtdby Judge Under-
wood, of Virginia, because the judge
presiding at the trial was disqualified
by the fourteenth amendment. The
proceedings resulted in a reversal
of UnderWood's order, and recommitt-
ment of Griffin.
San FranOisco, July 20.—Arrange-
ments have been made tocarry fruit
from San Francisco to New York, at
five cents per pound, and emigrants to
San Francisco at $50 from New York
and $38 from Chicago.
A number of leading citizens have
organized a society to protect the
Chinese from abuse by lawless white
men and boys. ; -
A train broke through the trestle
at Promontory Point. Tbe engineer,
one fireman and one passenger were
killed.
Havana, July 20.—The Spanish
Bank issues notes for the second gov~
eminent loan. Sugar and exchange
dull but stady.
London, July 26.—The Harvard
University Crew, to row againBt the
Oxford, arrived in excellent condition,
and went immediately into training.
The Times urges the Lords to ac
cept the present bill rather than
exchange it for terms inevitably worse
for their Irish friends.
Madrid, July *20—Gen. Lersundl
rejects the overtures from the parti-
zaDS oi Isabella.
The threatening attitude of the
Carlists excites much uneasiness.
Hanana, July 20.—De Rodas, in
view ot the prompt action of the
United States in suppressing fillibns-
ters, withdraws the recent order to
search neutral vessels in waters near
Cuba.
Under tbe head of National Dead
Heads and Bummers, the San Fran*
cisco Daily Herald has the following:
The Congressional Committee of
Ways and Means yesterday met the
representatives of several Chinese
companies with whom \hey had a
private interview, during the course
of which the Chinese representative,
Fung Tang, made a speech expressive
of their pleasure at meeting them.
The address advocated the abolition
of the law by which they are not al-
lowed to testify in'out courts, and
the tax which Chinese miners are
obliged to pay, and the tax ot five
dollars which Chinese are obliged to
pay when coming into the State. He
denied that they had slaves, or that
slavery existed among their people.
They simply assisted their country-
men to come here, and then made
them contribute from their earnings
to pay back the money advanced. He
6aid: "China can furnish you good,
faithful, industrious men to cultivate
rice and cotton in your Southern
States, if you wish to employ them ;
or to raise the silk in California, if
you will make laws to protect and
make.tbem feel safe, and insure them
equal justice with other nations, ac-
cording to their treaty with your Gov
ernment." He concluded by wel
coming them on behalf of all the
Chinese to California.
N£W YORK MARKETS.
New York, July 20.—62's 23$; 64's
21-j; 65's 21f; new 20J; Louisianas
69 to 70; Levees 67 asked; beef steak
dy, new plain mes 8 to 16 ; extras 12
to 18.
FOREIGN MARKETS.
Havre, July 20.—Cotton closed
heavy on the spot and afloat.
Indian Depredations.—We have
a letter from Mr. Matthiee, who re-
cently left here for Fort J)avis by the
El Paso stage, dated Fort Concho tbe
30th of June, that reports have reach-
ed that point to the effect that fonr
days before a train belonging to
Messrs. Adams & Wicks was attack*
ed near Howard's Springs, and
captured by the Indians. One
teamster was killed, "aod 150 mules
taken; the teamsters were compelled
to abandon the train. The station
keeper at Pecos Station reports tbe
Indians to have numbered two hund**
red. No other particulars given. Mr. -
Matthies states that the stage was de-
tained at the Concho by high water
and unprecedented rains; alsoy-that
reports of Indian depredations come
in from all quarters.—San Antonio-
Exprest. *
The Los Angeles News furnishes
the following items':
Chinese.—Fifty thousand Chinee^
are to be shipped to Illinois, to work
in factories to be erected near Chicago.
Tbe i.mall pox has disappeared from
the city.
Grasshoppers are Seriously injuring
crops and orchards in the southern
part of the city.
Crops.—From every part of the
county we hear favorable reports of
the grain crops. Several steam thrash-
ers are now engaged in different parts
of the county, threshing wheat and
barley, and the harvest gives promise
of being larger than ever before
known in-the county.
Mr. Sam. Weisiger lost five head of
^The^xtentTf8the damage is incal.IHirsHonor on a charge m^de against
culable, and must result in much |her by Margaret Dickson, also colored,
The Texas Election.—Washing*
ton, July 12. — Governor Pease, of
Texas, who is here fully indorsed by
General Reynolds, commanding that
State, had a final interview with the
President this afternoon, and urged
that an early day be fixed for the elec
tion there, as it would be detrimen
tal to the agricultural interests of tbe
State to have the same delayed. The
President replied that it was his de-
sire to fix an early day for the elec-
tion, bat was overruled by the Cabi-
net on Friday last. Governor Pease
represents the State to be in a-pros
pernus condition, and ready far a fair
election. He says Hamilton will re
ceive nine-tenths of the guflernatorial
votes, and estimates the Davis votes
at less than ten thousand. The State
delegations here have given up all
hopes of an early election,.but will
probably have an interview with Sec-
retary Boutwell to morrow upon this
subject.
Ex Governor Horatio Seymour has
lately reoovered property amounting
in value to $1,000,000 in a law suit,
Mr. Grant, in foar months, has had
two Secretaries of State, two of War,
two of the Treasury, and two of the
Navy.
Judge Fayle ha-, two juries—the
one white, the other colored. The
latter numbers some distinguished
names. The Father of his country is
.there, His Accidency Andrew John-
son is a member, also the distin-
guished orator Henry Clay. But alas f
the entire twelve-are unable to read,
or write. Collectively they could BOfc
yesterday mnster book learning
enongh to write the verdict they
found, or sign a name. In view of
these facts we recommend that juries
be permitted to employ a clerk to
write the verdict and <(steady the
pen" while they make their marks*—
Flake's Bulletin.
On the 6th inst. Gen. W. G. Webh*
of the Houston Telegraph, had been
the popular editor of that paper tor
twelve months. Under his supervis-
ion the Telegraph has htaken a high
stand and is daily growing in favor
with the people of our State. W
wish the General continued success
in his enterprise, and that his wise
and prudent counsel in these trying
times may be felt by our peopfe.—
Waco Examiner.
From tbe proceedings of the Gal-
veston City Council on the 19th, we
copy the following:
The Harbor Master reported a refu-
sal of the Houston Direot Navigatioa
Company to pay harbor dftep on brig
Alice Starrett. Referred to Commit-
tee on Wharves.
The Newbnryport Herqld thinks
the Cabinet must be an unhealthy
place, so many become ill there. It
is making the whole country fSalBBu
A New York paper laments the
completion of the Pacific Railway,
because it has facilitated the importer
tion of fire crackers.
Vermont is afflicted with the
ton mania. One young lady has sa
lected a string of 1970 different kfei
within seven weeks.
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Chew, J. C. The Houston Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 1869, newspaper, July 22, 1869; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth234921/m1/5/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.