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A. H. BEL0 & CO., Publishers
Wednesday, April 2. 1884.
PEOPLE AND GOVftRNMEAT.
There is something pathetic in the failure of
the original impulse of the Cincinnati mob, to
wrest from the custody of law murderers who
had defied justice by process of law, and then
to hang them straightway without the forms
of law, and in the final miscarriage of force
which, leaving these worthless and pestilent
persons in safety, destroyed so many innocent
lives and so much valuable property. f>ut
mobs simply as mobs, however righteous the
sentiment from which they take their first in-
spiration, always have miscarried and always
will miscarry. It is because they attempt
revolution without organization; because they
war upon order without order, and upon law
without law. In short, it is because neither
violent revolution nor peaceful reform can be
accomplished, except upon some well-chosen
and well-defined basis of law and order.
Judging from utterances of the press,
and from other indications, the general
fcodv of citizens throughout the country, and
especially in the great cities of the West,
such as Chicago and Cincinnati, outside of
the criminal classes and their sympathizers
and abettors, have for years been accumulat-
ing disgust and indignation at the inefficiency
cf government in dealing with crime. We
did not need to be told by Mr. Hurat Halstead,
in a telegraphic elucidation of this Cincinnati
tragedy that " the excited people had a real
grievance to begin with,'' and that 44 the ad-
ministration of criminal law here has been
damnable, and the influence of sheer criminals
in public affairs alarming.*' It has been no
secret that the " jury-fixer " in Cincinnati, as
in Chicago, Philadelphia, New Orleans and
many other cities, has been a power. It has
been no secret that a vicious brood of criminal
lawyers have grown up to prosperity and
swaggering insolence out of a vicious system
of so-called criminal jurisprudence, and that
in common with the jury-fixer, the criminal
classes, and all other moral accomplices,
before or after the fact, with these
classes, they have exercised a potent
influence through a kindred brood of politi-
cians in public affairs for maintaining the sys-
tem to which they owe their peculiar vocation
rnd its profits. A couple of weeks ago, the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, of which Mr.
Halstead is editor, declared: "The alleged ad-
ministration of justice in this city ha£ been
j- andalous, shameless and despicable for years,
and the result is before us. The recent hideous
crimes in this neighborhood, the mob of mur-
derers in the jail, and the array of scoundrels
roundabout, toil of the situation so that it is
••^edie^s to multiply words." Suggestions,
more or less covert, of Judge Lynch, as a
desperate remedy, led step by step to the out-
break of unorganized frenzy which has come
to ?o disastrous and pitir.'ole a close. First,
] erner was burned in efligy; next, the jurors
in his.case were rotten-egged and boycotted;
i.ext, .he crowd attacked the jail: finally came
a bedlam not in destruction and carnage^
1 rf m -ginning to end, all was wrong, except
f/e final restoration of order by
lhe constituted authorities. It wa.
sv o. g lo preach or suggest law-
] '-;i e?s as a redress for the failure of the
Ian- to punish crime, it was wrong for the
constituted authorities, when they saw the
< . men's ;f riotous violence gathering force
and momentum day after day, to remain inac-
tive until they had acquired such volume and
headway that nothing could arrest violence
and avert anarchy but ruthless carnage, fiad
rti9 authorities acted with the promptitude,
decision and vigor called for by the occasion,
Cincinnati would have escaped the calamity
and nisgrace of this memorable riot. But
Mr. Halstead ventures to hope that what has
happened will serve as a lesson to make irre-
sistible an influence that will lead to better
ways. This is altogether problematical. The
event at Cincinnati has filled the hearts of
many citizens, fretting under the grievance of
n failure of criminal justice which seemed to
reveal the law as a protection for the guilty
rather than for the innocent, with
more bitterness than ever toward
the institutions and symbols of the civil
government under which they have experi-
enced the grievance. It is certainly ominous
when in a free country large numbers of citi-
zens, craving the blessings of good govern-
ment, come to look upon the actual govern-
ment under which they live as unresponsive to
their wants and antagonistic to their interests.
It is well enough to hope that they will be dis-
posed and be able to work out at last the
needed reform of government. But history is
not wholly reassuring on this point. Persist-
ent perversion of government to bad pur-
poses, and persistent failure of government for
good purposes, constitute an evil that is bound
to generate popular distemper, and to transform
itself at length into popular convulsion, from
which almost any calamity, political, social or
material, may result. Sooner or later there
must come, wheu the body politic becomes
thoroughly diseased, some such straggle
of nature to throw of the disease.
There is not a blade of grass
growing or a stream of water flowing, that
grows or flows under natural laws more cer-
tain and inexorable than those which evolved
the Cincinnati riot, and which portend, if con-
ditions remain unchanged, still more dreadful
catastrophes hereafter. Such an evolution is
ouly evil transforming itself. In fact evil left
to its own forces, dream of keeping it in one
old and familiar form as people in their sicklj-
conservatisrn may. is always progressive and
cumulative. And fearful and wonderful is its
power of transformation.
CAPTAIN EA DS A.\D HJS WORK.
Can it be possible that the citizens of Galves-
ton will stand idly by, detained by any special
or local interests whatever, and permit to pass
the grandest opportunity ever within reach for
securing deep water here? To compare the
opportunity presented of CaptaiukEuds taking
hold of the work with the miserable and im-
becile policy pursued under the government
plan would be like instituting a comparison
between a needle and a hay stack. It is too
ridiculous to think about. " The bill which
was agreed to at the meeting of the congres-
sional delegation has been sent me by Mr.
Cochran,"* writes Captain Eads from London,
under date of the 17th instant, addressing
Messrs. fteagan and Maxey, " and the modifi-
cations made by him at the request of the dele"
gation are approved by me. All I have to say
further is, while I do not solicit the task,
yet, if the bill be passed as now agreed upon
by the delegation and Mr. Cochran, I will,
immediately after its approval by the presi-
dent, commence the construction of the work,
and I feel sure, so far as its engineering success
is concerned, it will not prove less striking, less
prompt or less satisfactory than that which at-
tended the labors of myself and associates at
the mouth of the Mississippi river." As to
what was done at the mouth of the Mississippi
river, The News thinks proper to produce at
this time an article printed some time ago in
Harper's Weekly, which shows what Captain
Eads did there, and what ho had to contend
with in the way of 4i much opposition " before
he was permitted to undertake the work.
Government engineers are not partial to Eads,
but Eads has managed to get there, and gov-
ernment engineers aro somewhere else. The
following is the article, from Harper's alluded
to:
Attempts bad been made as early as 172G to
deepen the river's mouth, but the history of rhe
attempts of our government date back only to 1S37.
The appropriation then was small, and exhausted
by survey*. No other attempt was made until 18.v»,
■when $75,000 was set aside for the purpose. In
$-330,000 was appropriated, but the parties un-
dertaking it failing to complete the work, the gov-
ernment used what remained of the money to do
Sc. and kept the channels partly clear with dredges
during the years ISVj-CO. During the war nothing
wa* dojee. In 1S6P-9 the g rornment built a pro-
p*tle»-(tr«dge, contite- $3"»O,0OO. It thr«*w the mud
up treta the bottom for the current to carry away.
It am uot suffice, anc? another was built. These
boats were elmost constantly la use for three
ye»r», hut in 1613 a board of United States engi-
neers trave their opinion thar. '• the results obtained
dhJ not Warrant them In estimating that a srreater
dspth than eighteee feet could be maintained by
dredge-boats,''
Dunrjfc that year Captain Eads examined the
mouths of the passes and unheaitatinjgly declared
that "the only way to remove the great o last ruc-
tions wfcfe fey parallel dikes or jetties.*' In 1874 he
made a proposition to Congress to open the mouth
of the Jiississippi and uiainUin a channel twenty-
ejffh t feet deep for ten years betWenti the Soutn-
vi est pasM and the aulf for S10,000,006, not a dollar to
b • piild by the government until a «ieps>h of twenty
I• - 1-a»; het-zi secured. He was then to receive
Sfi 00$,000. and afterward $1,000,000 for each ad-
ditional two- feet, or a total of $5,000,000 when
t . < : vt.r ftj®t had been obtained. The remain-
U ir 5".»-'i'j.v.O to be pafd in annual installments of
t'cJ.00# e«ca, conditional on the preservation of the
ch«ur.«i during the ten years.
ir rhe ftace of much opposition Captain Eads was
fiiiH iv permitted to undertake the work at the
Sou1.:, pass, aua notwithstanding the difficulties
th*! c were greater than at the other passes, the
sishowed was reduced to |5pt50,000, and he was
— -.ired to guarantee a deg£h t^tiere of thirty feet
per year. Tins bill
and became alasv
f<;r twenty years for $190.
wo? signed by the president
March 3, 1875.
June, 1875, saw the jetties b<?gun, and a wonder-
»ul change was. soon apparent. The currents,
Litherto weakened and distracted by losses at vari-
ius points, and powerless |to prevent those persist-
tut fear formations, were now ?•> ,'i.f restrained by
arts and dikes. The augmented volume of water
loving with bow life and p . v into the South
bass. aed guided by the jetties, u ukl do the work.
" The South pass," says an cniiuent engineer, "is
i natural ship canal. There is not a shoal, nor a
Iharp turn, nor a dangerous bank, nor a snag even,
p its whole iergta. It flowed over a bed and be-
t*tea banks foraaed of its own deposits. In cut
•tag ite way tb rough them it bad shaped its chan-
Iel te the exact requirements of the volume and
ensity of its waters," Jfrom the *ad of the pass
to the outer edee or^e bar in the deep water was
1^00 yards. It. was n^ressary to guide the mass of
rushing waters aerossJfhis intervening space by the
jetties. Confined bfuween their parallel wails, it
was thrown full agaiast and over the surface of the
bar. It was a huge, boiling-, scouring, submarine
water jet. Before it the hitherto stubborn barri-
cades of mud and sand were crumbled, carried
away and dispersed In the westerly gulf currents
beyond.
During one of its annual overflows the river
had burst its banks at a place twenty-three miles
above the passes, called the Jump. A lak® of
mud and water had oeen left by the recedingfiede.
Countless wilrows had taken root, and when the
jetties were begun a growth of these trees was
found practically inexhaustible. Hundreds of
boat-loads, cut iuto long slender wands, but with
their topmost leaves intact, were floated down to
the works. Ways like those for launching small
ships were built on the low banks. On these
were •onstructed huge skeletons of wood, one
hundred feet long, forty feet wide, and two feet
thick. The willows were woven, pressed, and
bound down into these until they formed a com-
pact mass. They were then launched, taken in
tow by steamers, floated over the lines laid out
for them, loaded with stones, and sunk to the bot-
tom of the gulf across the bar. Here again fortune
favored the workers, for although most of these
stones had to be brought down from the Ohio river,
a small portion—21,000 tons—was brought in by
ships as ballast. Miles of these mattresses were
thus laid on the ocean's bed transfixed by stout
piles, and weighted with stones, until the alternate
layers formed a broad, firm foundation reaching
to the surface At the sea ends sixteen of these
tiers were required. A wall of concrete was then
put on. topped with blocks, some of which weighed
seventy-two tons—the largest of the kind in the
world.
Against these Immense barriers the river's floods
and ocean's fury fretted and lashed in vain. An-
other surprise here awaited the builders; for the
same billows that broke on the outer slope with
sufficient force to tear away the heaviest boulders,
left behind them an ever-ir.creasing depost of sand,
which, building up a natural slope, eventually
proved the best protection possible. Some of this
sanL falling over into the river aide and threaten-
ing the channel, parallel lines of piles interwoven
with willows were put down as barriers, and the
deposits filling up the apaoes between these and
the jetties, completely imbedded portions of the
works with a protection of nature's own furnishing.
On the 12th day of May, 1870, the steamer Hudson,
of the Cromwell line, appeared off the bar, and
coming in through the new channel, breasted the
jetty current and glided up to Fort Eads. The suc-
cess of the work was thus assured. Since then the
channel has been ever deepening and widening till
nothing now oars the free passage to the largest of
ocean ships and steamers. A dredge steamer, the
G. W. R. Bayley, a marvel of power and ingenuity,
stands ready to clear up any sudden or unforeseeu
shoal.ngs, but so far the necessity for her use sel-
dom arises, and for months at a time she lies idly
at her moorings, the speeding current on which she
floats doing all the work.
GIVE MP. TILDEN A PEST1
The Democrats are in danger, according to
the Brooklyn Eagle's idea, of getting into an
unpleasant fix by nominating Tilden without
knowing whether he is able to go to Washing-
ton, or stand the strain of a canvass. Well,
the party can keep out of such a fix by letting
Mr. Tilden alone. It is In a bad way if it has
no other raw presidential material than one
old man. But besides this view, there is an-
other. Perhaps it does not appeal very strong-
ly to the average politician, whose wallowing,
servile, boot-licking instincts and in-
clinations to be a wind-vane even more than
a windbag f Dr office only, are painfully or
ludicrously conspicuous—painfully to the party
devotee who is yet earnest in support of a prin-
ciple—ludicrously to the cool, dispassionate on-
looker. The idea which ought to occur at once
to the politicians, and would occur if they were
not forgetful of self-respect, is that if Mr.
Tilden will not take the people into his con-
fidence and state the fact clearly in
case he is willing or desirous to be
a caudidate, he is not treating the
people and his party handsomely. No
past supporter and admirer of Mr. Tilden will
willingly adopt any auch hypothesis. They
will prefer to believe that he is not a candi-
date. and know that he is physically too
weak. He is reported to have said so. The
truth of the statement is not authorita-
tively challenged. It leaves him out without
reproach, but the reproach begins where the
party is represented as hanging upon Mr. Til-
den and he as indifferent to his followers' anx-
iety. It is not a case of ordinary political astute
reticence, for Tilden, well and strong, would
easily obtain tho nomination, and the time is
approaching for a decision, so that it would be
disrespectful for him to remain silent if he had
anything to say except to decline. The party
should respect itself andjgive Mr. Tilden the
repose which he seems to crave.
STATE PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
The Gonzales Inquirer says there was not a word
of truth in the dispatch stating after the late lynch-
ing in that place a prominent citizen, after the
hanging was over, set up the drinks to the crowd,
numbering between 300 and 500 men.
The Gainesville Independent says:
There should be some distinguishing signs put
along all wire fences, so that travelers at night
could tell when tney approach one of these life-de-
stroyers, and any man building one of them, and
failing to put up boards, should be prosecuted if
there is a lav/ reaching the case, and if there Is not
there should"be. As. Mr. G. G. Agerton was com-
ing into Gainesville from Bloomfield last
night he met with a very serious acci-
dent. It seems that since the last time he had
made the trio a wire fence had been put across the
road. When the sharp barbs of the wire touched
the horse, the animal sprang forward and then
suddenly stopped and reared up, throwing Mr.
Agerton out of the buggy under the horse's heels,
tie was thrown against the wire-fence and severe-
ly cut about the head and neck. There are wound3
on the top of his head, on his face, and a very
ugly gash across his throat. His escape was cer-
tainly a very narrow one, as the point that made
the wound in the throat was reaching pretty
closely for his juglar.
The Houston Eagle, of Sunday, has a vision on
the Lord's day, like St. John, and writes the re-
velation as follows:
I saw the stately steamers (drawing twelve'feet of
water) that had just plowed the mighty ocean's
waves from a foreign country, land at our wharves.
I saw barks, brigs and steamers, with the flag of
every country floating at their masts, comprising a
mighty fleet of commerce, calmly resting on Buf-
falo's placid stream. 1 saw the tall chimneys of a
hundred manufactories belching forth their smoke
of enterprise, and giving employment to
thousands of laborers. The shrill whistle
of locomotives from every corner of
the city, announcing their departure or
coming, made known that Houston was the great
railroad center of tho South. Grand structures
reared their heads aloft, and streets were thronged
with the busy crowd bent on commercial pursuits.
The Cotton exchange, stately in appearance, told
of Houston's success as the cotton market of
Texas. The rattle of vehicles as they passed along
told that Houston's muddy streets were paved at
last. The electric light, as it flashed forth in its
brilliancy, and seemed to look with pitying rays
uoon the dingy gas lamp, marked Houston's pro-
gress I awoke, and it was but a dream.
It may be prophetic. Many men are living who
have already seen as great changes in the Baycu
city.
The Victoria Advocate says:
All is not lovely in the Republican camp in this
district. This comes, we suspect, from the fact
that nearly every one of tho whites of the party in
Texas is a firm believer in what has been denomi-
nated *'practical politics," or, as a recent San An-
tonio correspondent of The News puts it, they are
mainly •'Republicans for revenue only." Colonel
Ochiltree seems to have fallen into discredit with
one of the many factions who have grown weary
waiting for their turn at the public crib, and there
i- visible a disposition te leave him the job of here
after paddling his own inpependent canoe. He
holds his position by a majority of about 8000
votes, but a meager proportion of which were cast
by Democrats. The belief is gaming ground in
Republican circles that the independent dodge is
really not needed to carry the district, and that
Colonel Tom's congressional seat rightfully belongs
to a thick-and-thin Republican.
The Loekhart Register prints the charge of Judgo
Moore to the grand jury of Caldwell county on the
late lynching and assassination cases. The judge
said:
Your jail has been forced open at midnight by
masked men, a priso ner confined therein, charged
with the murder of Mr. Ussery, taken out and snot
to death. If you call cool, deliberate, secret assas-
sination murder, what will all good met) say of the
depth of that infamy which, impelled by personal
rage, seizes a prisoner in irons, allows him no trial,
calls no witnesses, ascertains no facts, and, the
facts of his defense being in serious dispute,
kills him? This great tragedy is quickly
followed by the horrible death of an innocent and
unoffending man, Mr. Rodgers. His brains crushed
out, bars of iron fastened to him and sunk in the
river. Such deeds can not remain a secret. Is
there any connection between the two great crimes?
Gentlemen, if your whole time should be given to
finding out one of these murderers, and the trea-
sury of your county emptied by the expense, do
not hesitate to meet this issue. I commit the in-
vestigation of the crime of this mob to your keep-
ing—the power and authority of this State is at
your command."
The merit of many other things said lies, as
Shakespeare says of a jest, as much in the ear of
the bearer as the tongue of the speaker. Many a
good thing said fails to be appreciated on account
of the lack of perception and taste in those who
hear it, and doubtless many good things said by
the papers are overlooked or unappreciated by
their contemporaries—sometimes from haste and
sometimes from a dull state of miud. State Press
is not exempt from this infirmity, yet the Gates-
ville Advance excuses the shortcoming, as follows;
a contemporary of The News complains that
that paper does not give ir taffy like it does the
other newspapers. Our discontented brother
should originate an idea or say something. The
world is a cold, unsentimental judge that takes
things as It finds them. If^an editor has a paper
which is not. praised he should blame his own im-
becility. Merit always finds recognition and appre-
ciation.
The attention o? the Fort Worth Gazette and
Dallas Times is called to the following, from an in-
terview of a reporter of the Little Rock Gazette
with Minnie Hauk:
The reporter questioned her regarding her tour
through Texas, which State seemed to have left a
very good impression upon her. Texas, she says,
has a bad reputation in tho capitals of the East,
and I was warned by many friends not to un-
dertake the trip. Now, I can only say chat I was
more than agreeably surprised. Galveston, San
Antonio, Houston, Austin, Waco, etc., are
all cities with much culture and mu-
sical taste—more so than the northern
part of the State. Everything seemed to be quiet
and peaceable as New York or Pennsylvania, and I
can hardly recollect anything unpleasant. The
only trouble I had was in some of the hotels. One
of them, at Corsicana, charged for me and my maid
$?0 for two days board. A hotel in Dallas insisted
upon having my bill paid twice over.
I am in the hands of my friends, is what a can-
didate for the penitentiary sai l.
[Pittsburgh Gazette.
" He must have been in the hands of a Texas jury,"
adds the Gatesville Advance. The loss of confidence
in juries led to the terrible mob in Cincinnati, and
the lesson should not be lost on other communities.
The Goliad Guard learns from Mr. Robert Gray
that the late rains were very heavy in Wilson and
Karnes counties. Roads and ravines were so badly
washed out as to greatly impede travel.
One of the colored commissioners of Fort Bend
county has resigned, or words to that effect are
printed in the Richmond Nation, to wit.
the State of Tex Co of fort Bend,
oct. 201883.
Ms honable Godgell 1 Somrvill thisi is to c^rtifi that
I am the Officer.of Conner VII!e Tex precinct No 8
that I Desire to Desined my office for one cause
that is ary wife is Dead and I want to go to school
12 Mon#,h and I saw the High Shirfif and he toold
me te write out a pertishtion and Send it te the
Cormishonary Cort So that I will appoint Paul
Stearns for the Offlc and Send him Down Second
Monday in Next Month to go Be fore the Cormish-
tionnery Cort it is agreeatiel with the Bornsmen for
him tetake the Oflio and Put him under the same
Borns the Bornsmons here. By signs there bornd .
( Henry (X) Towns,
- Major (X) Frier,
(Steward (X) Camel.fi
Mc Slack Partle.
The prize fight folly has reached Richmond, on
the Brazos. The Nation reports a battle between
two colored champions, named Dick Lacy and Jeff
Calder. Some white men put up a prize of 00
cents, and after the ebony athletes had tried fist
and skull for a full naif hour, Jeff seized a club,
and Lacy shouted " that do settle it," and yielded
the prize. He should have cried foul and claimed
the stakes. Richmond should adhere to the Mar-
quis of Queensbury's rules of the ring.
A large majority of the Democratic papers of
the State are in favor of the abrogation of the
two-thirds rule, and in favor of the renomination
of Governor Ireland.
The Corsicana Journal says Justice Waltcn la«t
week issued fifty warrants for the arrest of per-
sons for gambling. A vigorous campaign against
vice and crime seems to be in progress in all parts
of the State.
The McKInney Enquirer says:
The man who collared Dennis Kearney on the sand
lots of San Francisco and struck him with a quirt
is in McKinney. He is a hard-working blacksmith,
and led the faction of workingmen who opposed
Dennis.
The Fort Worth Gazette having said that W. J.
Austin, of Denton, had been in the city, and is a
candidate for floater from the counties of Collin
and Denton, adds:
The present floater. Hon. H. A, Finch, of McKIn-
ney, will run for the office of representative in Col-
lin county. Collin concedes the floater to Denton
county this term.
The McKinney Enquirer remarks; " We must go
away from home to learn the news." The statement
of tne Gazette may have been unfounded, but
when politicians make little arrangements for the
distribution of offices they are not apt to tell the lo-
cal papers of them. The adage about going abroad
to learn the news has some foundation in fact.-
When people are abroad they sometimes speak
more freely of home matters than they do at home
The Texas Farmers Alliance is the name of a
new paper started at Decatur, Wise county. It an-
nounces that its columns will be devoted more par-
ticularly to the interests of the farmers, mechanics
and laborers of Texas, and in the same connection
the interests of the like classes. Among the ob-
jects of the Alliance one is declared to be to create
a better understanding for sustaining our civil offi-
cers in maintaining law and order. The initial
number gives much space to agricultural and in-
dustrial topics, and is otherwise well filled with in-
teresting and useful matter. It is a well printed
eight-page paper, and appears to be the organ of
the association called the State Farmers alliance.
The Fort Worth Gazette takes a little tilt at that
irrepressible character, the professional juror, and
says:
Presiding officers of legal tribunals, whether in-
ferior or district courts, have it in their power to
contribute to the good work of suppressing the
professional juror. They can instruct sheriffs and
constables to refrain from summoning any but
men of known good and stable chatacter as talis-
men, or on special venires. Not one sheriff out of
ten will venture to disregard such instructions.
The San Antonio Times says:
Professional jurors are the great obstacle to the
enforcement of the laws; they would not be accept-
ed in case they were to manifest any disposition to
enforce the laws, hence they acquit murderers.
Professional jurors are peculiar to cities, and by
some hocus-pocus generally smuggle themselves
into the jury-box at every term of a court.
The Gainesville Register remarks:
The best and ablest men of the country have sel-
dom been presidents.
This remark applies best to the last quarter of a
century. Most of the early presidents were real
statesmen. The first six had represented the United
States in foreign courts and established fine Euro-
pean reputations, as had the seventh, eighth and
thirteenth. On the whole our presidents have been
abler men than the heads of foreign nations.
Somebody ought to ask Mrs. Hayes's husband
what he thinks of Tilden as a presidential candi-
date.
The Democrats should lay an embargo on Wat-
terson's bazoo.
If Randall and his protectionist Democrats
can boss the majority, the people should make an
effort to entrust a moral, courageous party with
power next time.
The whisky men could have paid the government
4% per cent, interest for indulgence. How much
will they lose then by negotiating with the banks? It
has been remarked on various occasions that the
United States government is not a bank.
Free trade Is a question of justice, which is
always larger than the special interests of any
man or set of men.
It is alleged that the high tariff gives the Ameri-
can farmer a home market and higher price for
some of his grain. Suppose it did so, who would
pay the higher price? Answer: The American
laborer, whom the protectionists claim to protect.
The average politician appears to hold as an ar-
ticle of faith that he and not the Supreme Court
can really decide what powers have been dele-
gated to Congress, and while he argues the coun-
try may remain in some respects without govern,
ment, and corporations may work their will with-
out restraint, superior to the powers that granted
their charters-
Wonder if }Ir. Hewitt thinks himself raw ma-
terial for anything?
The Texas old ticket doesn't seem to be very
unanimous.
New England Democracy is about as effective as
Southern Republicanism.
With New England divided between Edm unds
and Blaine, the Yankees will not have much influ-
ence in the National convention.
Looks as if Ben Butler were coming to life again
He has contracted to address a public meeting in
New York in a few nights in aid of a soldiers' home
for ex-Confederates. Still, Ben will never be presi-
dent.
A lie of any kind is bad, but a stupid lie is crim-
inal.
Banks display a notice, received from Secretary
Folger, stating that because of the refusal or neg-
lect of Congress to make an appropriation for con-
tinuing the printing of one and two dollar green-
backs in place of wornout notes, he can not meet
requisitions for them. Is not Congress taking a pe-
culiar method to force silver into circulation? To
refuse an appropriation is an oblique method,
A correspondent who wants information on the
tariff question and mentions speeches by con-
gressmen should apply direcf. to the speech-mak-
ers. He can obtain through any bookseller a num-
ber of works that will carry him further into the
theories of free trade and protection than a speech.
F. Bastiats's Essays on Political Economy, publish-
ed by the Western News company, is a good book
on the free-trade side. Perhaps the Cnicago Inter
Ocean would direct the inquirer to what they con-
sider authority on the protectionist side.
Most men and all women would be moral if law
and society would allow them to be so. They sim-
ply have not learned the art of living together or
social science; and such a science can not be built
on good intentions only.
The two leading banks of Mexico City, the Na-
tional and the Mercantile, have agreed to consoli-
date after long negotiations.
De Lesseps carried his point with the Suez canal
shareholders. After an exciting discussion the
convention concluded between him and the Eng-
lish ship-owners regarding the future arrange-
ments of the present canal and the formation of a
new one was adoptod by 843 votes to 761.
M. Shapira, the scriptural manuscript forger, has
shot himself through the head with a revolver in a
hotel at Rotterdam. For a few days he had not
left his room, the door of which was kept locked.
The police forced the lock and found the bloody
corpse lying upon the bed.
A Cincinnati juror has been fined $50 for offer-
ing to procure a verdict for one of the parties to a
suit for a small consideration.
Marion Martin's silence Is no longer deafening.
You can hear him talk with no uncertain sound in
The News this morning.
" Gibbs and Gooch have now something to
chew on.
Fourteen reporters! Ye gods! but the Enquirer
crowd must have weakened since Louis O'Shaugh-
nessy bossed the gang.
Marion Martin has nothing to conceal from the
people. He speaks out like a little m an, making
no effort to mince matters.
One of the quaintest turf characters died last
week at Sheepshead Bay. On his fifty-eighth
birth-day Captain John Kay breathed his last after
a short illness. He was born in Kentucky, served
in the Mexican war under General Scott, and lur-
ing the civil war commanded a company of artil-
lery in the Confederate service. He was identified
with the turf for over forty years, both as owner
and trainer. He had many peculiarities which
stood out very strongly in the harum-scarum life of
the turf. He never chewed nor smoked tobacco,
and never permitted it among his stable lads. He
abhorred profanity, and enforced politeness of
language and manners in his employes as much as
he did attention to the horses in their care.
Mr. Hewitt is right after all about whisky being
raw material. It is extensively consumed in the
vote manufacturing industry.
Either reform the tariff thoroughly or gag the
organs. They keep on showing the pernicious
effects of the high tariff. The consequence must be
contempt for the politicians who will not take a
pronounced, square, manly stand against the pro-
tective system. _
Mr. Schurz does himself honor both in the fact
and in the terms in which he declines to receive a
gift of $100,000. While able to work he can not ac-
cept such a sum without giving a proper equiva-
lent. Well thought and well said.
The London Times has felt called upon to de-
nounce a recent encroachment ot landlordism. In a
prominent paragraph on the pleasure re-
sorts of the Thames, it exclaims against the
conduct of the riparian owners in warning peo-
ple off the river banks, inclosing landing places,
withdrawing ferries, and, by pressing their real or
assumed legal rights to the utmost, confining the
use of the river to its bare navigation as a means of
passage. Acts of this kind, it adds, are not only
hurtful but dangerous, and no time should be lost
in establishing the inalienable right of the public
to the river banks. When the Times talks in this
way riparian proprietors have cause to feel uneasj*
MARION MARTIN
SQimHELTT 1ST 2E3 FIELD FOB
GOVERNOR.
His Opinion of Men and Measures—
The Farmers and the Politi-
cians—The Hailroads
and the State.
Governor Ireland and His Adminis-
tration Sharply Criticised—
A Plain Platform of
Principles.
[Special Correspondence of fiie News.1
Kerens, Tex., March 31.—There 1is a very nice
tract of country between Galveston and Kerens.
In Europe such a distance would traverse the
bounds of a kingdom, and numerous principalities
in Germany could be welded in the same space.
Kerens is not much heard of. It is one of the few
towns in Texas in which it is impossible to buy a
drink, or beg it, for that matter. It is situated on
the Texas and St. Louis narrow gauge, fourteen
miles east of Corsicana, is a hamlet of railroad
creation, has about 300 inhabitants, is composed
exclusively of frame buildings, and enjoys the dis-
tinction of being what is commonly termed a
local option town. In other words, the inhabitants
of Kerens by vote decided that no liquor or other
ixtoxicating drinks should be sold in the settle-
ment, and consequently cold water is more prized
than In the average Texas town. There is a goo
deal of cattle grazed in the vicinity, and wheu the
cowboys get thirsty and don't feel like using water
for inward irrigation, they play freeze-out to deter-
mine who shall ride to Corsicana for the exhilarat-
ing juice. In this way the town is some times en-
livened, but generally speaking, it is very quiet.
Marion Martin, lieutenant-governor of Texas, has
a splendid farm comprising several thousand acres
in the environs of Kerens. His farm-house is about
three miles from town, nestled in a clump of full-
grown trees and surrounded by several hundred
acres of carefully cultivated plantation, many
green plains and. grassy meadows, watered by
liviug streams and rippling springs. Mr. Martin's
home is at Corsicana, but this being the planting
season, when a News commissioner visited hira,*.he
was found superintending work at the farm at
Kerens. It would not be too extravagant to say
that Marion Martin has one of the finest, if not the
finest farms in Texas. It is composed of wood-
land, meadow, pasture and plantation, is
skirted by the Texas and St. Louis railroad
and runs right into the edge of the town. But Mr.
Mariin takes more pride in his stock than he dees
in his elegantly cultivated and finely situated farm.
The best breeds of horses and stock in America
are quietlv grazing in his pasture fields, while
horses which have matured and are considered a
little extra—extra by their owner—are carefully
groomed and tended in his capacious stables.
Among these pampered animals The News com-
missioner found Governor Martin. He was looking
well and hearty; his face, was well browned from
exposure to the weather and his laugh was as
hearty, his voice as joyous and step as buoyant as
though he were but thirty instead of fifty-four years
old.
Marion Martin is an ideal farmer. He has been a
farmer all his life, and understands everything
pertaining to the cultivation of land and the raising
of stock. He was born in Kentucky fifty-four
year ago, and has lived in Texas for thirty years.
He first settled in Jefferson, but moved to Corsi-
cana a year afterward and has resided in that vi-
cinity since. He never had any profession but
farming, and he has grown wealthy in the pursuit
of that industry. In 1859 he was elected to the
Texas state senate, and has served in that body
with few intervals since. He strenously opposed
secession with such men as Balllnger and Throck-
morton, but when the die was cast he accepted
the situation and loyally supported the
Confederacy to the end. He was a mem-
ber of the constitutional convention, and took
a prominent part in the deliberations of that body.
He was the only man not a professional lawyer on
the judiciary committee in the convention that
framed the constitution. With such meu as Judge
Ballinger, John H. Reagan, George Flournoy and
others of like character, he beJd his own and was
ever considered a man of wisdom, force and fore-
sight. He was elected president pro tempore of
the Senate in the Sixteenth Legislature, and in the
fall of 1882 was elected lieutenant governor, run-
ning 30.000 votes ahead of the head of the ticket.
Mr. Martin is more distinguished for hard practical
common sense, keen reasoning powers, strict
honesty and calm conservatism than for aflv
glowing or sparkling off-hand genius. He has al-
ways performed his duty well, and was never found
wanting when duty called him.
441 am better pleased with my work as a member
of the constitutional convention than with any-
thing else I performed in a public capacity," said he
to a News commissioner. " though I have nothing
to take back for my course in other matters, I
have always endeavored to work for tho best inter-
ests of all the people of every section of the State.
As you know, I am an agriculturist, but 1 did not
allow my own business to interfere with my capa-
city for doing justice to every other industry in the
commonwealth. In fact, every industry and every
business in the State4 are kin to each
other. There is no reason why the
farmer should combat the stockman,
and there is no cause for either the farmer or
stockman combating the manufacturer. The pro-
fessional man is useful, and neither farmer, stock-
man nor manufacturer oan get along very well
without him, while without the merchant and
trader, all the othy industries would be more or
leas at sea. The farmer has generally been de-
picted as narrow-miaded and prejudiced against
every person but himself. Thii is also an error.
The farmers of Texas art as thoroughly progres-
sive and broad gauged a class of Citizens as can be
found in the State. You will seldom hear farmers
talking of grinding ihonopolies, powerful and cor-
rupt corporations and rot of that character. It is
the young lawyer, who manages to get on a
clean paper collar, and wishes to air his
eloquence in public, that gives vent to such
mattfer. and by the way, these young
fellows, when they get into the legislature
and other political positions are the men the lob-
byists handle to carry ouc their schemes. The
farmers are true to themselves, and in order to be
so must be true to the other industries in the State
also. It would be suicidal for a farmer to object to
the building of railroads, when it is as clear as day-
light that they lighten his labors and enhance the
value of his property."
41 Are you a railroad man, governor?"aske dTns
News man.
*4 In the sense that I am anxious to encourage
railroad companies to extend their lines I am. We
have room for several railroads yet and I would
like to see a railroad everywhere it is necessary. I
asi also iu favor of protecting railroads in all their
rights, liberties and interests. They have as much
right as any corporation of any kind doing
business by permission of the State. They help
us to pay our taxes; they enhance the
value of our land; they create towns
along their lines; they create markets for our pro-
ducts; they spread civilization and encourage pro-
gress: they induce immigration; in a hundred ways
they are beneficial to the people, and consequently
to the State. Why should we make war on thern
then? Of course if they strive for that which is
not legitimately theirs the people must oppose
them to that extent. If they endeavor to send
their agents, attorneys or managers to our legisla-
tive bodies with the intention of controlling legis-
lation, they must be opposed. The people must be
the absolute judges, but the people must be fair.
The railroads should be made pay an honest,
legitimate tax, but they should not be singled out
for any species of tyranny or oppression. To this
extent I am a railroad man, but when a railroad
agent or attorney strives to influence
my vote or action for a questionable
purpose or motive, I am against the railroad to
that extent. Farmers generally are in faver of
railroads, in favor of giving them all rights and
liberties due to them, but beyond that they will not
go."
*** **♦ ***
44 Governor, you have doubtless received letters
asking if you would be a candidate for re-election?
" Yes, 1 have had many inquiries to that extent
since the adjournment of the extra session, but I
am placed in such a peculiar position that T am
afraid my answers did not give satisfaction to my
friends. My farmer friends, especially, have been
anxious to learn my exact status since The News
began talking of Messrs. Gibbs and Gooch in con-
nection with the position I now occupy.
But the fact of the matter is I am
at sea myself—hardly know my own
status in politics. The agriculturists of the
State, whom I in a manner represent, will not hear
of my retiring, and in consequence I am placed in
an embarrassing position. As my conversation
with you will probably be read by more than a
hundred thousand citizens of Texas before many
days, I am anxious that you should state my po-
sition correctly. Now, in the first place, I do not
like to oppose Governor Ireland. It would look
very ujuch as if a lieutenant was trying to step
over his captain; but I do not indorse Governor
Ireland's administration and can not recommend
his policy. Now, if Judge Ireland was nominated
for governor, and I nominated for lieutenant-gov-
ernor, I would be expected to make a canvass of
the State. How do you suppose 1 could advocate
the election of a ticket when I could not indorse
the policy of the head of it? For this reason I had
about made up my mind to retire altogether, but
my friends, especially the agriculturists, have been
so persistent in demanding that I should remain in
public life, that I have about leconsidered my re-
»olve."
44 Is it your inteption then to run again?'*
14 Well, I have never declined any public position
that my fellow-citizens have called me to, and I
have been in public life for more than twenty-five
years: but if I am called upon to run for lieuten-
ant-governor on the ticket with Governor Ireland,
I am afraid, in order to preserve my own consist-
ency, that I must decline. Judge Ireland's policy
and mine can not agree."
'4 What actions of ~
cially object to?"
44 Well, take his course in the penitentiary mat-
ter, for instance. He supported the lease system
with all his power, and when it was beaten iu the
legislature he sent a message asking for $500,00j
to run the penal institutions. Now this was so
utterly absurd that it is hard to describe it.
If Governor Ireland was honest in asking for
$500,000, he showed a lamentable lack of know-
ledge of something that his position should com-
mand him to understand; and it he asked for that
amount in order to bulldoze or scare tne legisla-
ture his action was worse than reprehensible.
Whatever phase can be put on the mataer it shows
a lack of statesmanship on the part of Judge Ire-
land. Then, again, when the fence-cutting troubles
commenced he was by no means equal to the situa-
tion. His own individual action or rarher non-
action exhibited a want of determination inexcusa-
ble in the chief magistrate of the State, while the
periodical harangues of his adiutant-general did
more to foster and encourage fence-cutting than
anything else. Again, take his message to the
legislature in extra session. He recommended a
clear and specific line of policy, and two days
later went across the street to the court-house
to address a convention of cattlem'en and
repudiated the lioe of policy he had recommended
in his message. These are seme of the reasons why
I can not indorse Governor Ireland, and you will
readily see why I can not consistently take the sec-
ond place on a ticket whicn he heads."
44 Would you accept a nomination for the lieuten-
ant-governorship if another candidate than John
Ireland was selected for tke head of the ticket ? "
'• I do not think it is proper or patriotic for any
citizen to decline office to which he is called by pub-
lic suffrage."
44 But suppose you should be nominated on the
ticket with Ireland ; would you then consider it
proper to accept, or decline ? "
41 Wfceti a man r*c«ivtts a nomination frora his
party, he is expected to support the ticket heartily—
in fact, to snake a canvass for it, and this I could
not consistently and honestly do for Governor Ire-
land. I do not think he has made a wise executive,
aud consequently as a good citizen I can not sup-
port him."
44 Would you accept a nomination for governor?"
44 Cert»inly,if it came from the Democratic party,
but this does not indicate tbat I am a candidate
for governor accordiuf to the common accepta-
tion of the word candidate. I would be a hypo-
crite if I said I would not like to be governor. There
is not a man in Texas that would not like to fill
that office, and I am no exception. I have also
received plenty of encouragement to become a
candidate. Mv friends all over the State have l>een
writing to me, requesting that I should make a
race, but so far I have done nothing in that direc-
tion. When the representatives of the Democracy
meet at Houston oa the 10th of An gust, if they
think proper to nominate me, I will
accept tne ccminMion, make a vigorous canvass
and endeavor to nil the office to the best of my
ability. But I am not buttonholing my friends to
boom me for the position, nor am I doing any-
thing etee in the way ef trying to get the pefcple to
send delegates in my faver. But as I said before,
I am too wuch ef a patriot to decline to serve when
called upon. In tols Connection, too, I might state
that I have a full-grown idea that it is time some-
body other than a lawyer should be elected gev-
ercor. Texas has been governed by lawyers from
the first to the present time. Lawyers grab at
everything. We send them to Congress, we elect
them to state offices, both xiOdfeet of the legislature
are full of them. We elect them Judges, district
attoroixfe aud AtarJy erarettteft «l&t» Row tho
What actions of Governor Ireland do you espe-
farmlng interests of Texas are more prominent
than any other business, iudustry or profession of
the State, and the farmers are beginning to think
that it is high time one oC their class was chosen
governor. So far as the proposition goes that I
would make a c invars If nominated and serve if
elected, you can state that I am a candidate for
governor."
**» *** V
44 What do you think of the school law enacted
by the Eighteenth Legislature?"
Well, I am in favor of good schools and plenty
of them. The present system is far from perfect,
but It might have been worse. I am not a believer,
however, in extravagant taxation for the support
of negro schools, especially as the negroes are
making very little eff jrt, and have very little de-
sire. to become factors in the tax list."
44 What-do you think of the land law of the
Eighteenth Legislature?"
"On the whole, that enacted at the special
sesvion w as about the best that could be done under
the circumstances. When the legislatum con-
vened lsst January the State was in a terrible con-
dition Lawlessness and anarchy prevailed, and
something had to be done. The Terrell bill was
impracticable, though undoubtedly possessed of
so'iie excellent features. It was in fact several
bills in one. and Ifatried to straddle th° fence until
it became obnoxious to all classes^ Its herd-law
features were destroj*ed by the clause per-
mitting twenty-five head of stock to run
loose. As a matter of principle twentv-five herul
were just as much out of place as 1000 or 10.000
The farmer would hav« to fence against twenty-
five head just as much as against a larg -r number,
therefore its herd-law features were destroyed. As
an educator, however, the Terrell bill was valuable.
It opened the eyes of the people to the real state of
affairs and taught the stockmen whatthev may ex-
pect one of these days. We will arrive at a herd law
ere many years more It is the only real, rational and
just proposition. Crops can not move around and
destroy cattle, while cattle can move around and
destroy crops. Now it is only natural and just mat
what is dangerous should be herded or fenced,
while it is an injustice to force wnar is not danger-
ous to be inclosed and <rt.*rded. The people are
beginning to look at it In inis light, and depend
up n it a herd law is not far ahead of us."
" What do you think the fiscal policy of the
Dresent administration?"
*4 Well, I think the revenue bill passed by the
legislature on the whole just. The advice of the
comptroller should largely prevail in this matter.
He is well posted on the need of revenue and the
amount required, and his suggestions should be
listened to with attention. I am for rigid economy
in the administration of government, but I am not
parsimonious. There is such a thiug as false
economy, and too much economy or unwise econo-
my becomes false. Extravagance should not be
permitted und^r any consideration. Government
should be conducted on business principles, but no
department of government should be permitted to
suffer for want of adequate funds to run it.
*** *** ***
44 What is your notion of the two-thirds rule?"
441 think it should lie abolished. It is undemo-
cratic, tyrannical, unjust, and opens the door for
trickery and corruption. It destroys the first prin-
ciple of Democracy, which is that the majority
should rule. Now under the two-thirds rule a con-
temptible minoritv can rule, govern, boss, nomi-
nate, dictate, or anything el-*e that you can cou-
ceive of. Dark horse, eh? Dark horse is a hum-
bug. There never was a dark horse. The horse is
always blanketed, cinched and carefully groomed,
ready to be placed on the track when
the minority has exhausted the patience
of the majority. I tell you, sir, the two-
thirds rule has done more to put incompetent
men in office in Texas than any other force. It
simply destroys the will of the people, and gives an
inconsequential click of trading politicians a
chance the execute their schemes. It is very easy
for corrupt and trading politicians to get control of
a third of a convention. Deals will be made you
know. Support my man for Congress, for senator,
for judge or for sheriff and I will support your man
for governor, for attorney-general, for treasurer or
for comptroller. Thus deals are made and
the honest men of the convention who
have a sincere desire to follow out the wish of their
constituents and place in nomination specified citi-
zens, found themselves shackled, while the political
mercenaries, f^w In number though they be control
tne body. This is how this thing works, and until
it be wiped out and the majority rule prevails we
will never have a real genuine convention honestly
representing thorough Democratic sentiment. I am
glad the executive Committee submitted the ques-
tions to the people, for I am confident the people
will instruct their representatives to abolish the old
system and adopt the majority rule."
*** *** %*
44 What are your sentiments and that of farmers
generally on the free-grass questi>n?"
44 Oh, every farmer in Texas is opposed to free
grass. It is a relic of barbarism, eucourages com-
munism and should be wiped out of the customs
of the State at the earliest possible moment. Why,
man. on the face of it, it is absurd and unnatural.
It creates an aristocracy with all the benefits of
protection, as prosection is understood in political
economy at the present day. A man has really no
right to own cattle unWs he has land to e»d
them on. This is philosophy as a first principle.
Look at it from the standpoint of the State. The
State is guardian of these school lands for
the children of Texas, and it beuboves the State to
make as much out of them as possible. Now. if
they can earn money for the school fund, would it
not*be criminal for the State to allow these men to
occupy them without cost? I think so. It is un-
just to tax the farmer, the merchant, the manu-
facturer and other industries for the benefit of
education, and allow the 'free-grass baron,' as
he has been aptly termed, go free. The farmer
has been too much taxed; he has been taxed for
everything, and is forced to stand the brunt of
everything. This Is unjust, and I am in favor of
making the stockman pay for the grass his
cattle eats. I am strongly in sympathy with
the land board in the present contest with the stock-
men. It Is clearly a business proposition. If the
State thinks the grass is worth eight cents an acre,
the board has the right to demand it; and if the
stockmen think they can not afford to pay that
amount, let them move off and seek more favora-
ble terms elsewhere. But no sane man believes that
the cattlemen will move off, and no one not blinded
by prejudice thinks that eight cents an acre is too
much for the public laud."
*** ***
41 What is your opinion with reference to the poli-
cy of delegating the powers of the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial departments of government to
Austin boards?"
" It is bad policy and should not be tolerated. I
expect you are aiming at the action of the land
board, however, and in this instance, while regret-
ting the nece.ssisy of forcing the board to act,
still I think it acted wise and well. It is bad policy
on the part of the legislature to leave the law in
such a chaotic conditiou that boards hardly know
where their power begins and their duty ends.
This should be closely defined by the law-making
power, and strenuous rules laid down. We have
altogether too much government, too many boards,
and too many bureaus. The less government
we have, the smaller will the tax-rate be,
and the happier and more contented will the peo-
ple be. But it 6eems that the legislator is never
really happy unless he is trying to create a beard
or invent a new bureau. This disposition should be
discouraged because it lends to expensive and
manifold government. What business, for in-
stance, have we of a state engineer? What can he
do that the railroad companies are not willing to
do? Is it not to the interest of railroads to do their
best for the accommodation of the people? and
even as it is what power has the state en
gineer? Absolutely nothiug. He can make a
report and that is all? Do you suppose
tha this services have prevented any wrecks onTexas
railroads during the past year? Do you suppose
that he has been very beneficial to the people in any
way? I think not. It is to the interest of railroads
to watch their own bridges and keep their own
tracks in repair, and they have better men to look
after these things than Texas can secure with the
salary at present paid her official."
*** *** ***
44 Do you think the forty summer normal schools,
four weeks a year, could be abolished without a
severe strain upon progressive Christianity and en-
lightened civilization? "
441 think they could; but unlike a good many of
our surplus institutions, they are harmless. It may
be beneficial to a certain extent to get the school
teachers together once a year and allow them to
compare notes, but the expense is more than the
tax-payes should be forced or even requested to
stand. It is a kind of school-teachers picnic, very
pleasant in its way, but from an economical stand-
point perfectly outrageous. I would be in favor of
dispensing with them."
4* If the military school at Bryan was transformed
into a civil institution of learning, would the race
of American warriors become extinct? *'
44 Hardly ever. I think such a thing as you sug-
gest would be highly gratifying to the entire peo-
ple of the State, especially that portion that pay
taxes. If the soheme was conducted as 4»purely
agricultural and mechanical school, as its name
would indicate, there would be some cause for its
existence. As It is, there is none. If bo3'« were
taught to plow and plant, to make a plow, to run
an engine or make an engine, it would be both
beneficial and useful; but at present it seems to
be an institution for the cultivation of dudes."
»** *** *♦'
"Wbat do you think of the idea of dividing Texas
into two or more States?"
441 am opposed to any such proposition all the
time. Texas can be governed as wisely and well
as she is as if she was carved into a dozen frag
ments. I don't believe there is any serious idea of
dividing the State in any quarter. If there is it
should be sat down upon without ceremony. The
stockmen are acting like a lot of overgrown babies.
Ttiey had a fat thing for such a long time that they
bate to give it up, and I don't blame them, but I
would most assuredly blame the people if they
permitted them to enjoy special privileges any
longer. The fact Is we have too much farmers, too
much 'business,' too much stockman, too much
ni?ger in Texas politics. There is no need of lug-
ging these things into our political affairs. Gov-
ernment should be conducted for the best interests
of all the people; the burdens should
be equitably, judiciously and reasonably distri
buted so that no industry would be exempt and
none over-burdened. I was opposed to Governor
Ireland's position in attempting to force the rail-
roads to provide special cars for negroes. It made
an issue of the negro and gave him undue promi-
nence. No one suggests to a merchant or wonld
try to force him to provide a separate counter at
which negroes should be served, and no one feels
insulted to discover a negro purchasing in a store.
It wodld be the same way on railroads if the mat-
ter was not agitated. The matter would settle it-
self in time. But the division of Texas must be
discouraged; let every patriot set his face against
it."
V *** V
44 "Who do you think the Democrats should nomi
nate for president?"
441 an; in favor of Thurman, and I think Texas
will send a delegation instructed to support him to
the National convection. He is by all means the
strongest man in the Democratic party. He would
be acceptable to ail elements, and would unite
every faction. His name alone at the head of the
ticket would be a tower of strength. His record is
without a stain. . He has been on the right side of
every question and never wandered from
the domain of the people. I think
perhaps it might be wise to nominate
Cleveland, of Now York, for vice-president. If cot,
either a Californi'an or a Southern man should be
selected. I have heard that Northern Democrats
had encouraged John Hancock, of this State, to
run for vice-president. If such is the case, Texas
should send a delegation in favor of him to the
National convention by all means. But the pro-
position to nominate a Southern man sbould come
from the North. It would not be expedient to sug-
gest it. at this end of the line."
44 What of a Democratic platform ?"
44 If the Democrats don't come out squarely for a
tariff for revenue only they deserve to be beaten.
There Is reaily no difference between the parties if
the Democrats ignore this question. If partie3 are
run for the spoils alone, 1 can see no reason why
they should be continued. Free trade is an old-
time [Democratic principle, and if it is abandoned
at this late day in order to please a paltry minority
the party deserves defeat. I believe in principles,
not men. I ana an old-fashioned Democrat, ana
don't cbarg® easily, notwithstanding the fact that
ray Democracy has been sometimes questioned."
44 What do you think of the Democracy of The
News?"
" Oh, (laughing.) The News Democracy is good
enough for me. though like my own, some people
who don't really know what Democracy is ques-
tion it. A newspaper that has not courage enough'
to criticise the act* of public men is of no benefit
to the people. Some people can not distinguish be
tween servile partisanship either in politicians aud
n&v. spapers, and high-toned, lofty independence. I
have been a reader of The News for twenrv five
years, and seldom had a chance to disagree with it.
I think my Democracy is pretty sound when 1 keep
in line with The News."
Ladies approve of your smoking44 Little Joker.'
Philadelphia Press: The Pike's Peak railway,
the completion of which within the next eighteen
months is practically assured, will be. in niauy
respects, the most notable piece of track in the
world. It will mount 2000 feet further heavenward
than the famous Lima and Orova railway, in Peru,
which is now in operation to a point 12,220 feec
above the sea, the hlgnest that the rails have as
yet attained. The obstacles that are being rq#t and
overcome in its construction are among the most
formidable yet presented to engineering skill. The
entire thirty miles of its length will be a succession
of complicated curves and grades, with no piece of
straight track longer than 800 feet. The maximum
grade will be 316 feet to the mile.
Rheumatism comes from inactive kidneys. Hop
fiittoui A6Y6I X&Us to cure it* Try it*
SCIENTIFIC MISCEIiLAKTY.
[Prepared for The News.l
Of 3361 samples of wine examined at the Paris
Municipal labratory in one year, more than half
were found to be bad, while 202 were positively
dangerous. Of 1037 samples of milk and cream,
542 proved to be bad; and of 71 samples Of fruit
preserves no less than twenty.flve were pronounced
dangerous. Of ninety-two samples of water sixty-
two were condemned as dangerous.
Dr. Emin Bey has made some measurements of
the Akkas, the small people discovered in Africa
and first described by Schweinfurth, and finds that
when full grown their heights range from four to
four and a half feet The skin of the Akkas varies
in color from a clear yellow to a glistening red, and
their bodies are entirely covered with a thick, stiff
and filthy growth of hair. They live in numerous
distinct tribes, have no fixed abodes, and are a huut.
ins: people, skilled in the use of the bow and arrow.
*A disease parasite has been found in the com-
mon onion by Mons. Joannes Chatin. It h.is been
examined by Mons. Pasteur, who finds it to be
similar to the parasite of mildew in wheat. Plants
which are attacked should be pulled up and
burned.
A committee has been appointed by the Royal
society of London to collect the varioas accounts
of the Krakatoa volcanic eruption and attendant
phenomena. This committee may be able to prove
or disprove the theory that the red sunrises and
sunsets have been caused by volcanic dust.
According to Joshlin, fishes have been caught at
depths where they must have sustained a pressure
of eighty tons to each square foot of their bodies.
Elevation of the Northern Lights—Dr. Sophus
Tromholt thinks that the long-mooted question of
the height above the earth at which the aurora
borealis appears will soon cease to be one of tne
unsolved problems of nature. It is evident that
aurora?, like clouds, float through a certain thick-
ness of the atmosphere, and only approximate es-
timates can be made of their usual altitude. Dr.
Trumholt has calculated the heights of the lower
edges of eighteeu auroras from measure ments of
their position made at two stations of Northern Eu-
rope about sixty-six miles apart. His results range
from forty-seven to a little over 100 miles, the
average being seventy miles. He admits the possi-
bility that anroraa may some times very clos
approach the earth's surface, but states that he has
never seeu any portion of one below the clouds,
although he has long watched for such an appear-
ance. 9
An observatory provided with instruments for
studying earthquake phenomena has been estab-
lished in a Japanese coal mine by Professor Milue,
of Tokio. As the mine runs under the sea, the in-
fluence of the tides in depressing the ground will be
included among the observations, as will also the
conditions attending escapes of fire-damp.
Mr. W. Spring has found that the permanent
compression of solids by a pressura of 20,<«0 at-
mospheres is slight, and some substances even re-
tain their original volume after having been sub-
jected to that tremendous pressure.
A French scientist, M. Duchatre. has shown that
moonlight as well as sunlight may have an Influ-
ence upon plant growth. Seedlings of lentils,
vetches, etc., which had been kept in a dark place,
at once began to bend towar.ls the moon when ex-
posed to/its light, and continued to move with it.
Geological Discoveries in the Holy Land—A
geological exploration of the Holy Land has just
been completed by an English party under Pro-
fessor Hull. The ancient margins of the gulfs of
Suez and Akaba were traced to a height of 200 feet
above their present level, showing that much of
the couutry was once submerged, and has been
gradually rising. This rise of laud must have
caused the separation of the Red sea from the
Mediterranean, and Professor Hull believes that
those two bodies of water were connected at the
time of the .exodus. He thinks he has also dis-
covered that the Dead sea, whose remareable de-
pression gives especial interest to the geolc gy of
Palestine, formerly stood at an elevation of 1400
feet above its present level, or at 150 feet above the
level of the Mediterranean. The survey is said to
have furnished materials for the construction of a
much more satisfactory survey of the Holy Land
than has hitherto been possible.
The spectrum of the Pons-Brooks comet has been
examined by Mons. Trepild, of Algiers, wno finds it
to be practically identical with the spectrum of an
alcohol flame.
A Land of Ice—Baron Nordenskjold convinced
himself last summer that he was wrong in suppos-
ing that the interior of Greenland was low lend.
«ee from snow and ice a part of the year. The
vicw that the country is one of glaciers is con-
firmed by Mr. Edward Whymper, who has just
given some particulars of his own observations.
He found the height of the interior in the latitude
of Umenak (about 70 deg. 30 min. N.) to considera-
bly exceed 10,0C0 feet. From various mountains on
the eastern side of Davis straits he has had
views of the whole of Greenland's interior,
between about G8 deg. 30 min. and 71 deg. 15 min.,
and has seen no break or depression within those
limits of latitude, while the country is everywhere
so deep in snow and ice that no rock or crag is
visible.
Fables>
the crane and fox.
Once upon a time Goosiana was the scene of a
universal mad disquietude on the part of the in-
habitants thereof, because of the success of a cer-
tain red Fox in gettingaway with eggs and goslings.
The leading ganders laid their heads together to
devise ways and means for entrapping the marau-
der; but no one among the representative ganders
would accept the nomination of champion of the
popular cause, to do battie with the rantankerous
For, for had he not very recently placed nors da
combat one of the mightiest of their land, for
whose sad rate all Goosiana yet mourned? At this
critical juncture a young Crane, who fondly im-
agined he bore a striking resemblance to Juno's
dudest peacock, announced his readiness to tackle
the redoubtable red. Fox. Whereupon the old
ganders cackled. 44 Barkis is willin'! Barkis is
willin'l" and, sotto voce, 44 Let the presumptuous
Crane tackle him; he may succeed in disabling him
so that one of us can complete the job; if other-
wise, we save ourselves at the nominal worth of
the Crane; for the red Fox is a hard citizen, and no
mistaking the fact."
The young Crane entered the lists fully confident
of succes, and was met by Reynard with the con-
temotions ejaculation, 4-Is this the best they can
do?" and forthwith went for the Crane. There was a
whoop, flutter and a buzz; feathers like suowflakes
fell all over Goosiana, bearing rhe mute tidings of
disaster. There was but one round,though that was
sufficiently animated for a half dozen, when the
crane piped forth oa the November air " Habet."
44 Poor little fellow," said a matron goose, 44 his
own muzzer wouldn't know 'iin," and there was
sorrow in Goosiana. The poor Crane presented a
pitiful aspect in the extreme, being stove in. picked
clean, and bungeu up fearfully. 4* Served him
right," said an old gander, with congressional aspi-
rations, 44 cause any of us could have get away with
the fox; but now—?"
Moral—'Tit not to win the fight to simply dare.
And cranes 'gainst foxes pitted should" be ware.
the ass and ox.
"Brothers," said the Ass, entering the longhorn
caucus, 44 I'm just as much opposed to the heelfly
as any of vou are, and the reason that I don't
hump my back and hist my tail and bellow when
the pests bore through the epidermis is because
the armor of my heel is simply invulnerable. But
I'm with you, boys, in this thing, whatever the
plowmules may say to the contrary notwithstand-
ing; and though my heels are tough my heart is as
soft as the heads of th6 hard-money cranks, so that.
your suffering pains me more than yourselves.
Just re-elect me to the corn and oats, and I'll
scratch for you with great assiduity all through
the flytime. Just try me on!"
"The doctrine of vicarious atonement," said a
big forty-dollar beef, "always was like a coil of
barbed wire to my understanding; but this scratch-
ing by proxy seems as thin as the hollow horn; so,
Mr. Burro, vale!"
The wise oft are foolish when in quest of tools,
They feign themselves more ignorance than fools!
colonel free green grass and baron von
nippershatchet.
441 have survived the changes of time, and
laughed at the work of the centuries, and uow in
the throes of dissolution the acutest pain which
pierces my soul is the reflection that I was slaugh-
tered in the house of my friends."
44 Barbed wire did it," shrieked the baron. 44 Ho!
men-at-arms! don the snake-wreathed sombreros
and seize the trusty nippers! War to the enemies
of the colonel must now be the slogan throughout
the Panhandle."
Too late, too late, they made the moonlit twist.
For progress rose above the morning mist.
And as her march resounded o'er the heath,
The Texas vet-ran closed his eyes in death.
Weep, weep, Fort Worth, with all thy might and
main.
Smith, Slaughter, Fleming, and all thy train-
But tears as big as goose eggs—shed in vain,
Can't call the colonel back to life again!
Moral—When you learn to let good enough
alone, you have climbed high euough the tree of
practical philosophy—the upper' branches are
brittle I _
Bad Blood
Is inclined to come to the surface in the spring
because of the elfort made by good old Mother
Nature to throw it off. If nature does not
have help at this time, the poison may go back
to the system and produce all manner of ills;
but by the aid of Swif t's Specific the bad blood
is all driven out through the pores of the skiu,
and permanently relieves the trouble. This
remedy is a purely vegetable aud harmless
preparation, but so ]>o\ferful an antidote to
blood poison that it fiuds aud roots it all out.
Do not be deceived by mercury and potash
mixtures, which drive iu the poison, only to
come out again in a worse form.
I have cured permanently blood taint in the
third generation by the use of Swift's Specific,
after I had most signally failed with mercury
and potash.
F. A. Toomer, M. D., Perry, Ga.
Treatise on Blood and iSkin Diseases mailed
free.
Tiie Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta,
Ga. 2
Last year the Bee line conductors turned in $200,-
000 ii! cash beside the tickets collected. An official
savs the company pays iw conductors *-*ell (an
ar«rsge of uer month) and is confident that no
pilfering of car fares is being done. The Big Four
pars $.*0, and the meagerness of pay is alleged as
a temptation for a conductor to increase his in-
come by crooked means.
FOR JE*sJ±3LlNT-
Rheumatism,Neuralgia, Sciatica,
Lumbago, Backache, Headache. Toothache.
Bore Throat, Swell!ngs, Sprains, Braises,
Burns. Scalds, Frost Bites,
ASD ALL Oi 1IER BODILY PA13B A.1B ACHES.
6*ldbj DruggiiU and DMliri*r»rr where. Fifty Caui belt!*.
Directions In 11 Ltngeacee.
v TIIE CHARLES A. VOfcELER CO.
flwin te A. .■sUMaecs.*<L,e.S.i«
Notion Department.
~^TE BEQ LEAVE TO INFORM THE INTERIOR MERCHANTS OF A FEW STUBBORN FACTS:
Firstly. We import direct our Laces, Embroideries, Ribbons, Cutlery, Hosiery and Handkerchief!,
enabling us to meet any and all competition.
Secondly. We buy our Buck, Dog Skin and Sheep Gloves and Gauntlets direct from the manufac-
turers in Gioversvilie. Our Domestic Hosiery and Underwear are all bought direct from the milUl.
Thirdly. We manufacture our ow n Jeau and Moleskin Pants, Cheviot and Hickory Shirts, conse.
quently can guarantee workmanship, full sizes and prices. Our different departments are replenished
by every steamer, which enables us to keep our stock complete at all seasons. We are also sole agent«
for the Patent Ribbon Holder; one of the most complete improvements erer invented, doing away witb
keeping ri» boos Hi show-cases, and still keepiuer them tree from dust and showing all the colors.
SEND FOR PRICE-LIST.
F, J. WILLIS BRO,
J. S. BROWN & CO.,
GALVESTON, TEXAS,
Have in Stock the following seasonable Goods, which
they offer in lots to suit purchasers: Hoes, Axes, Collars,
Iiames, Chains, Steel Plow Shapes, Heel Bolts, Grass
Rods, Grain Cradles, Plain Wire, Galvanized Wire, Barbed
Wire, Iron Fence Posts, Powder, Shot, Caps, Bar Lead,
Cartridges, Guns, Pistols, Fish Lines, Fish Hooks, Scales,
Saddlery and Saddlery Hardware, Milburn Wagons.
FARMERS OjSI THE GrTJLF1 COAST
In order to meet the wishes of parties who do not
want to sell
COTTON 11ST THE SEED.
We are now building another ginhouse, and next
season shall be prepared to n
SOOO ±sa,les Cotton,
whicn we expect to receive, having shinned nearly
that number this season.
COTTOIST GINNED FOR THE SEED-
BAGGING AND TIES FUKMSHED FREE.
GALVESTON OIL COUPANT. J. P. JAQUS3- Secretary
THE PHCENTX IRON CO.,
410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA,
Manufacturers of Wroii^ht Iron
Beams, Beet Beams, Channels, Angle and Tee Bars,
WROUGHT IRON HOOF TRUSSES, GIRDERS AND JOISTS,
And all kinda of Iron Framiug used in the construcuou of Fire-Proof Buildings, Patent Wrought Iron
Columns and built up shapes for Iron Bridge*.
MILLIKEN SMITH Sole New York Agents. 95 Liberty St.N. Y.
Letter from Wakpomueka-
[To The News.l
Wahpemueka Ixstitute, Chickasaw Nation,
March 28.—Twenty-five miles west from Atoka, at
Wahpemueka, is located a school, established by
the government in 1853 for the education of the
female Chickasaw Indians. It continued specially
for the use of females up to within some ten rears
since, when it became a mixed school. The build-
ins is an immense rock structure, 150x70, and three
and-a-half stories in height, containing: some forty
rooms. There are forty-five pupils, most of whom
are of mixed blood, hut others are full-blooded, and
can not speak English. The school is well supplied
with globes, charts, maps, etc., and an excellent
library. Ttie children are very apt to learn and
easy to govern. Algebra, history and other
brauches are tauzht. There is also a musical de-
partment. The location is high, healthy, and
beautiful. There are three other institutes in the
nation.
Toe Galveston News is always a welcome visi-
tor and ft comes with regularity. The depart-
ments of the paper are highly appreciated, and the
State news in particular. M. L. Brodie.
Among the high, low, rich and poor, on the
farm, iu the stable, ou the turf, in the house-
hold, St. Jacobs Oil has no equal for bodily
pains and aches.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
N ° T 1 c E.
MR.H. DREIER
IS AUTHORIZED TO
SIGN OUR FIRIVI NAZVZZS
BY PROCURATION.
kauitman & rukge.
Galveston, April 1, 18*4.
Notice.—Citizons Loan Company—
SECOND SERIES—The Shareholders of the Citi-
zens Loan Company and others desiring to sub-
scribe are notified that the subscription list for the
Second Series of Stock (of which 1100 shares have
been subscribed) will be open at the Secretary's
office until May 1, 1884.
ALB. WEIS, President.
W. F. Beers, Secretary.
AUCTION SALES.
SPECIAL TRADE SALE.
Clothing aud Shoes.
ON THUEDAY, APRIL 3. COMMENCING AT
10 a. m., at our salesroom. Strand: Men's. Boys'
ana Youths' Clothing, Overalls. Jumpers, Colored
and Linen Bosom Shirts and Furnishing Goods, Etc.
Men's, Boys' and Youths' Calf, Buff ani Wax
Leather Boots. Congress Gaiters. Low-Cut Strap
Ties, Prince Alberts, 3-Bntton Oxford Ties. Bro-
gans, Plow Shoes. Ladies', Misses' and Children's
Goat. Grain. Cur and French Kid, Serge Kid, For
Button and Lace Shoes, Velvet Embroidered Slip-
pers, Newport, Oxford aud Vassar Ties, Button,
Newport and Opera Slippers, BusJcins, Congress,
Etc. Men's Fancy Velvet Slippers.
Also, a line of Straw Goods-all Fresh. Season-
able Goods direct from manufacturers aud suited
to city and country retail trade.
LYNCH &. P3E2NIiA1Srr>.
The Emperor Loui? Napoleon aznoked
only the finest cigars the world could pro-
duce. Prof. Horsford says the Emperor's
cigars were made specially for him m Ha-
vana from leaf tobacco grown in the Golden
Beit of North Carolina, this being-the finest
leaf grown. BlaekwelTe Bull Durham
Sniokiuif Tobaooo is made from the same
leaf :u»ed in the Emperor's cigars, is abso-
lutely pure ar.d is unquestionably the beet
tobacco ever offered.
Thackeray's cifted daughter. Anne, in
her sketch of Alfred Tennyson, in Emrper^
Monthly, tella of her visit to the gr?at poet.
She found him smoking Biackweil'g Bun
Durham Tobecco. sont him by Eon. James
Buasell Lowell. American Mir.iater to the
Court of St. James.
In these days of adulteration, it is a com-
fort to amokera to knoxc that the Bull Dur-
ham brand is absolutely pure, and made
from the beet tobacco the world produce#.
Blackwell's Bull Durham Smoking To-
baooo is the le*t and purest made. All
dealers have it. None genuine without
the trade-mark of the Bull
SOIL, SAND,
SHELL,
TOH FILLING, DELIVERED.
T^yE ARE DELIYEEING. FOR FILLING,
Best Black Brazoria Connty Soil,
free of coco, at prices to compete with sand.
McRAE, A Mi ELL & CO.,
Twenty-second and Avenue A.
3000 ACKES LAND.
ONE TRACT OF 3000 ACRES FINE PASTURE
Land near Highland Station, Galvtston county,
for sale by
THOS. 60GGAN & BRO.,
J"iano *nd Music Dealers. GALVESTON.
MITTIiS. MATTING.
PLAIN, CHECK AND FANCY,
At reduced figures, wheiesale or retail,
GEO. B. DOBSON & CO.,
Corner Strand aud 20th Sts.
SHIRTS
made to order and sent C. O. D. to any
address. Rules for self-measurement.
C. 22. CLANCEY, Dallas, Tex.
6 FOR S9
BALLINGER, M0TT & TERRY,
10
Jf
125 Postoffi.ce Street,
GALVESTON TEX.
Tex,
Gi KEEXHOUSE PLANTS,
rKo»s, largest collection
of Flowers in the State. Plant
Catalogue, 100 pares. 160 en-
pravines of new, rare and beau-
tiful planta, mailed on receipt
of «c- in stamps. PLEASANT
VALLET NURSERY, Austin,
WH. RAT) a M proprietor.
NOTICES.
The recent marked tendency of the
popular taste for gin results as much from the
fact that it is susceptible of bein? an admirable
adjunct of mixed or faocy beverages, as that it ii
an almost infallible specific for all kiduey affeo-
uon-, the increase of which is as remarkable as it
is alarming.
WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIC SCHNAPPS
is the best form in which to take it, as it is diuretic*
tonic, a palatable stimulant and an agreeable ex*
hilarant.
Persons should look for the W. A. 8. label.
N otice.
All orders on complaints, to
receive orompt attention, should be left ac
lhe office of the Company, in the Brick Bull ling, on
Illarket Street* Between 24th and 45th
Streets,
Between the hours of 8 and 12 o'clock a. m.
AI G. Bl 'FTLA R. Secretary.
BUSINESS CHANGES.
N
THE COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EX
isting between the undersigned is this day dis-
solved by mutual consent, Mr. Chas. Weeren re-
tiring, and E. J. Bieriug assuming all the liabilities
and collecting all the outstandings of the late firm,
and continuing the business on his own account.
E. J. BIERING.
CHAS. WEEREN.
Galveston, April 1. 18S4.
Referring to the above. I desire to atate that the
business will be conducted under the old firm
name of
E. J. BIERING & CO.,
and, while thanking my old customers, as well as
soliciting the patronage of those who may not have
heretofore favored me with their orders, I promise
that tne same painstaking care exercised in the
past to please my patrons will be continued in the
future; that good goods, low Drices, and prompt
attention to orders will be the rule; and I trust by
so doing to meflt your patronage and approval.
Respectfully,
E. J. BIERING.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
partnership heretefore subsisting between us,
the undersigned. Hector a-Vaughan and George
Lingnam, at Galveston. Tex., as shfp brokers and
commission merchants, under the style or firm of
H. a. VaUGHaN <£ CO., is this day dissolved by
mutual consent.
Dated this 29th day of March, 1884.
H. A. VAUGHAN,
GEORGE LING HAM.
Geo. Ling ham. W. A. McVitie.
GEO. LINGHAM & CO.,
Successors to H. a. Yaughan Ac Co.,
SHIP BROKERS AND COMSSION MERCHANTS
GALVESTON, TEX.
We the undersigned have this day entered into
partnerehip under the firm name of Geo. Linghani
& Co., and continue the business of ship broken
and commission merchants, hitherto carried oa by
H. A. Yaughan & Co., at Galveston, Texas.
GEO. LINGHAM,
March 29, lb84. W. A. McVlTlE.
D. M. Yaughan. H. A. YAUGHAJ%
YAUGHAN BROTHERS & CO.,
Ship Brokers & Commission Merchants
MARINE INSURANCE BROKERS,
4 York Buildings, Sale St., Liverpool.
Cable address: Ourselves.
PROPOSALS.
Notice Contractors
Sealed proposals will be received
from the 2d day of April. 13S4, to the :28th day
of April. 18S4. at 12 o'clock, for the erection and
the 2d day of April. 1SS4, to the 2rith dajr
completion of a Stone Courthouse for Clay county.
Texas. All proposals to be filed in the County
Clerk's office on or before the
28th Day of .April, 188£>
The Commissioners Court reserves the right to
reject any and all bids. Plans and specification!
will be on file in the County Clerk's office of said
county on and after the 1st day of April, 1884.
J. F. CRAIG, County Judge,
Henrietta, Clay County, Tex.
Houston County School Land for Sale.
Chocxett, Texas. March 10. 1884.
SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED FOR SALE
of Houston county
Four Leagues of School Lands
up to 12 o'clock M., MAY 12, 1884; also, bids for the
timber without the land. Said four leagues of
land is situated in Trinity and Polk counties, near
Moscow, on the Bremond and Trinity and Sabine
railroads, and are superior long leaf pine lands,
with abundance ot water.
The right to reject any and all bids is reserved.
W. B. WALL, County Judge,
Houston County.
C. f j.ee.
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£>. VL £323.
joshca mlllzb.
II
C. B. LEE & CO.,
IRi i BRASS
AND
MA.CBLXHSTISTS
makufactveebs of
STEM ENGINES, SAW MILLS,
Boilers, Hill and 6ia Gearin?, Shad
i*g. Pullejs. Bras* and Iron
Pomps. Etc.
»3T-Particu'.«j aUemion glT«nio orders for Iroa
F rente and Ca.tiigs tor Buildings.
All kinds ot job Work soiulMd. HiialMciioa
guaranteed.
Corner Winnie and TUirt.r-^econd kts.
(Near Railroad Depo',)
GALVESTON. TEXAS.
A.W.& D.T.SMITH,
U.aerai State Agents for '
DANIEL PRATT'S
IKPKOTED
REVOLVING HEAD COTTON GINS,
Feeders and Condeosers,
SMITH'S
HULLS SEED SEPARATOR GINS.
COTTON PRESSES AND STEAM ENGINES.
A FuH Stock on hand.
S«nd for revised price list.
No. 90 Strand, GALVESTON, Tex.
FARO. _ KENO.
WILL & I'INTK,
769 MARKET ST., San Francisce, f^i
Manufacturers and Dealers in Sporting Goods of
Every Description. Monte and American Playing
ards a Specialty. Send for Price T in
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The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 2, 1884, newspaper, April 2, 1884; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth463209/m1/2/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.