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WEEKLY STATESMAN
PCBLISIIED DT
CAllWJ3IiI & WALlClilt.
OH C1MWIU. JOSEPH WA.LKIB
THURSDAY DECEMBER 11, 18T3
For the Democratic Sutosaiau.
THE SHADOW.
A. SOXXtTTOTtNSleOS BIT SALI.IB MOTWOOZ.
A shadow wives upon the low white wsll;
The shadow of haughty bough that hlji
Uplifted wave Itself ttnint tbe ky;
And on iu leaves the bright moonlight doth fall.
Ah haughty boutrh. thou ioet not care to know
That each light ripple of thy leaflet' Cow
Give life and motion to shade below.
So, my liisb Love, frora th proud atat of fame,
Thy prcatness fall upon my ncknown life;
When thou dost jlc-ye, I too am tossed with strife.
And In thy Joy, I shadow forth tbe aame.
Dot tbou wilt ncTCf know me, my hlyh Love!
So far doc thou ahiuemy poor life above,
No breeze would ever Uke to thee my name.
TO A MDV Fill ex d.
BY J. -P. V.
A yi-aniit!''. which I seek no to repress.
Hath fllied my breast thro'out the live-long day;
A dim forVodinif prayerful tenderness,
Co out to meet thee on thy Bowery way!
Never haih absence ecmcd ao mute aa thit
Jo (Med Willi tuncic(i-hadow drawing near;
. "l'lii Imt that blend the hitter cup with bliss,
Jta voice oft whiser not a word of cheer!
Kotil-lck, my fancy weave a thousand snares,
Thnt lie I trust not In my pathway here;
My doubting heart in secret brooia Its cares,
And piuea aloud for one moat fondly dear!
Not that my faith la less In thee than Heaven,
Vet I have thought perhaps too much of thee;
For bond of tardily love munt needs be rlren.
To cloud tliia life, or set the spirit free!
91 r. Jones's Love-Letter,
From tho Mobile Register.
A younjj lmm w hom we hliall call Billy
Jones, could e seen in the postoffici a few
days ago, boasting to a crowd of friend of
tho soul-inspiring letter which ho would
soon receive from his dulcinea. Tiie mail
bag distributed, Mr. Jones hurriedly un
locked his box, and there, before hhn, to
Lis heart's delight, was the long-looked for,
white-winged messenger, bcuring the will
known initials of his punctual correspond
ent,. , Desiring to show f.he productions of
her proline imagination to a couple of las
intimate friends, 1 sat down on tho iron
stairway in the postoliice, and broke the
letter open. Ilia bewildered countenance
plainly showed that something was not
exactly right, and, folding it up, he gave it
to one of his companions to read. That
companion has kindly furnished us with
the following copy:
; f October 0, 1873.
"My Darliiiij Brotlu r I have just written
Billy the spooniest letter ever penned by a
silly girl to a moonstiuck youth. I dislike
to continue corresponding with him while
you so strenuously oppose it, but his non
sensical answers to my foolish letters afford
mc so much amusement that I cannot give
it up at present. I write him pages of the
most familiar quotations frjm Shakspearc,
and ho thinks it all original with me. But,
to view my position more practically, you
must remember that I urn twnty-five years
of age, tvltli nothing to support me, and
cry little prospects, of getting married.
True, Sir. and myself arc engaged
but he is too slow, and I fear he will event
ually sever our association. If I thought
so, and saw no favorable opportunity of do
ing better, I believo I would marry Billy a9
the last resort. You must admit that ho is
a young man of some ability, however lim
ited that may be, and his prospects of mak
ing a living at leu' are pretty good, consid
ering the times; and his childishness after
a few years of contact with this working
day world, I think Billy will be something,
and if not, his submissive disposition and
genuine affection forme are commendable
qualities in hi competition. Now, brother
, give me your consent, to keep
Billy on b:uid lintil 1 uin feitre what course
Mr. will pursue in relation to our
engagement. If .you can sparo fifty cents
please send it to me, so I can have a gem
taken of meforBillv's watch case. Your
loving Bister,
Billy now weut to his box again and re
ceived a postal card bearing tho following
brief and explanatory message:
"Voir Billy I sent you brother's letter
through mistake. Mail it to him in
immediately, and lie will send you yours.
"x our sweet chuck, . ' '
Billy is now in a quandary in relation to
the conrso to be pursued by him in the fu
ture. Desperate Kiicouutcr with Panther.
Crroiiomloneo Mirlunna (Flu,) Courier.
St. .Andhew's Bay, November 7.
While hunting near the coast u few days
since, it was my misfortune to witness a
sickening and heartrending scene, near a
bayou. My companion and self had been
hunting two or three days previous near the
locality, and shot four deer, one of which
ran toward that spot, so badly wounded
that I thought it would fall within two
hundred yards of the place at which it was
shot ; but as we had as many ns we desired
for that day, wo did not trace it. On our
rtturn two days afterward, to hunt near the
samo place, I noticed buzzards flying near
the spot where I suspected that the deer had
gone, and suggested to my companion to go
to it, just to satisfy myself that I was cor
rect in my burunse, and also to show him
how accurately I could shoot; for ho con
tinually taunts me with the number of deer
that carry with them evidences of my poor
marksmanship. On approaching the spot the
stench was so unpleasant that we were rathe
act of retracing our steps, when I noticed a
buzzard hop as if i based, and insisted on go
ing far enough to be satisfied that I was cor
rect. On nearer approach, a most horrible
wenc was before us. About tweuty paces
front a bayou a number of ijiuiense alliga
tors were" keening oil a flock of buzzards
from a partially eaten and decomposing
body of a huiaan being, and near uy the
carcass of a panther. The head and limbs
of tho human being were severed from the
body, and were scattered in an area of fif
teen feet. The head was bruised, scratched,
swollen and eaten so that it could not be
recognized, except that it was a white
man's. Nearly all the rVsh. was eaten off
tho bones, and so recently, too, that the
trace of large teeth were noticeable. The
carcass of the panther was also devoured.
A large, heavy sailoi'a knife, stained with
Mood, was near tin. trunk of the human
being, and there were other evidences of a
desperate struggle for life K-twcen the man
and the panther. As we approached, none
of tho gu:trdh;ns over the dead moved un
til my co'.r. p .".is". on threw a heavy pine knot
into their mhl-t, when the tm.uier retreated
to the water, tho larger moving sulJeuly in
that direction, but ncter r.:-g farther than
the edge, rdl tho time chciy watching
every movement we maie.
When my companion beg-m to collect the
l-or.es of the !;...:: f.r interment, uhile I
i.chl both v.un, the alligators near the edge
I o.".:r.' ferocious, r.nd about -ten rushed
laa.Uy tvwrd us. We stood our pruned,
and :.re 1 f.ur times fatally wounding, if
rot ki'.'.lrg. t nun a'h ;itots. I looked
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of the deceased fnm Ixing hungry fvt'a
month. Thfv-e articlrs and the coiiin re
mained in the hhlew.ilk until bite the next
forenoon, burrounded by paid mourners
who tccnn:d to be carrying on a lively com
petition in the matter ol giving full value
for the money received. At the cemetery,
after the collin had lx.-cu lowen -l, hired
rnourncrs and the two children of the de
ceased walked round the grave once, while
the husband remained standing silently by.
Then vesseb containing fcl were pi;t in
the grave at the bend and foot of the collin,
followed by a small quantity of earth. Net
to be put in were live chit kens and ducks,
and these were ptomptly covered with
earth. The grave having been liiled up,
brandy and whisky were sprinkled uon it
in a liberal manner, while a pig's head, roast
chicken, boiled rice, oranges, nuts, candy,
etc., were laid upon the mound.
The ceremony lx.-ing concluded, the
Chinese returned home in their carriages,
while some Christian boys, w ho had been
watching the proceedings, gathered up the
fruit, candy, etc., and likewise left for
home.
Anecdote of Public JIou.
bt jnux v. roaytr.
From tho Wafhintfton Sunday C'l.ro:! le.
A professional jokeror humorist is some
times a hopeless invalid, and often dread
fully low-fcpiritcd. "I am very unhappy,
doctor," said a bilious stranger to f cele
brated physician. '"Can you give me a cure
for melancholy?'' 4,Yes," was the reply;
"go and see the inimitable clown, Gri
maldi." "Alas, doctor, was the rejoinder,
"I am Grimaldi."
Do you know that Joseph Jefferson suffers
unspeakably from dyspepsia, and that, pleas
ant as he is on the stage, he is compelled to
observe the utmost care of his health? John
Brougham, a wit himself, and the cause of
wit in others, sufferstcrrbly from the gout.
The grandfather of Joseph Jefferson, after
whom he was called, was very much afflicted
by rheumatism.
The bitter things of Theodore Edward
Hook were often the result of his own irri
tability and ill health, one of which may lie
directly traced to this cause. "Nobody
ever doubted my piety,' was the remark to
him of a talkative Pharisee. "I suppose
not," was the retort, "for nobody who ever
heard you would doubt your magpiety."
With his dazzling wit, his audacious prac
tical jokes, his astounding improvisations,
his faculty of punning, and the facility with
which lie turned out farces and vaudevilles,
he became tho welcome guest in every cir
cle. Appointed to office at a salary of $20,
000 a year, he was a defaulter for 100, 000,
but escaped to resume his position as a diner-out,
a comic writer and joker, and
finally died, broken in health and fortune,
aged fifty-three; to use his own words,
"done up in mind, purse, and body."
His contemporary humorist, Thomas
Hood, died at forty-seven, after a career of
varied success. Beset by pecuniary troubles,
though he wrote much that was suc
cessful, he composed some of bis finest
pieces, among them the renownei? ' Song of
tho fthirt," on a sick-bed, from which he
never rose.
Dr. Samuel Johnson was another notable
instance. Afflicted from his birth with a
malignant scrofula which permanently dis
figured his face, and. injured both his sigh,
and hearing, a prodigious worker and pro
ducer of books and pamphlets, a profound,
and witty talker, wise, shrewd, catiric and
dogmatic, many of his choicest triumphs
were the result of haul labor in the midst of
the most exquisite- tortures of body and
mind.
Perhaps no life and work better illustrate
my general idea than that of Pkobcrt Burton,
the learned British writer, born 1376 and
died 1039-40. lie was a confirmed hypochon
driac, and his famous "Anatomy of Melan
choly," from which many modern authors
have borrowed w ithout giving any credit,
was a treasure of profound learning, w itty
illustrations, and quaint observations.
Charles Lamb was perhaps the best speci
men of the class I am trying to describe
and died aged fifty-nine, lie was, to use
his own picture of another, "a compound
of the Jew, the gentleman and the angel."
He was the associate of Wordsworth, Ilood,
De Quincy, Talfourd, Leigh Hunt, Southcy,
etc. He was amiable, fantastic, witty,
subtle in his style, and will live in literary
history as one of its most delightful charac
ters. There was insanity fu his family, and
at twenty he was himself six weeks in a
mad-house. His sister Mary was frequently
insane, and killed her own mother in one
of her paroxysms. I always thought Joseph
C. Xcal, so well beloved in Philadelphia
for his quiet mauner and easy humor,
who preceded mc in the l-nnylca-ninn,
and died July 1818, aged only
forty-one, greatly resembled Lamb in the
graceful beauty of his writings and the
feebleness of his frame. One of Lamb's in
firmities was that he stammered. lie was
sent by his physician to an English water
ing place to recover his strength, and was
put into the hands of two stout bathers. As
they got him into the water, he said: "My
doctor orders that I am to be dipped."
"Yes, your honor," was the reply, and
down he went. As the little man rose in
terror he exclaimed: "I mean that I am to
be dipped 1" "Yes, your honor," and in
they aoused him again. As he came up he
recovered his speech and lost his temper,
and shouted: "Damn it, my doctor said I
was only to be dip-ped onre."'
Thomas Dc Quincy, the English "opium
eater," died in IS.j'J, aged seventy-four, a
great age for one whose life was wasted and
great intellect destroyed by his slavish sur
render to an appetite he could not control.
He was not so much a humorist asa dreamer,
but some of his visions were gorgeous, and
much that he wrote took a high rank in
standard literature and secured him a large
circle of admirers.
I might extend the list, but I think w hat
I have written will serve the purpose. The
comic men of our day soon wear out. Thcro
are few such perennial spirits as Sidney
Smith and Francis Jeffreys, few such spark
ling and cxhaustlcss fountains of fun and
satire as Theodore Cook. American humor
of this generation is typified by the school
of Artemus Ward (another melancholy man,
who died very young, in the zenith of his
fame"!, Bret Ha rte, Mark Tw ain, Petroleum
V. Nasby, and the Man of tho Danbury
Xrirn. Vnique as they are, they find it ditli
cult to b always original. The demand
for their wares is greater than the supply.
Of this fraternity Mark Twain and Petro
leum Xasby are the steadiest and most en
during, but yet the bitter (Mr. Locke)
varies his lectures and letters with other
work, and is far more a journalist than a
joker. He, nt least, cannot be added to the
saturnine and dyspeptic catalogue. Life to
him is a broad aiulwtcmpting field; and
though his letters from the Confederate X
Koads may be out of fashion, he finds many
other themes for his rare talent, and in
working the mine of fact he w ill, I predict,
bo as successful as he has been in exploring
the regions of fancy.
A u it eat part of Europe lives in constant
peril of a deluge. The rise lately of the
Neva, and the inundation of St. Petersburg,
wis only one type of what might happen at
any time to the w hole of Holland, and docs
occur every year in portions of France and
Italy. In "Holland, a leak may be sprung at
any moment in the great ocean dykes of
sand wattled with the roots of trees and
grass. 'A spring tide driven by northwest
winds bn more than once brought on
serious danger, and some thnos in the datk
ness of the hi-ht, in spite of tho vigihmec
which constantly guards these larricrs, j.:i
attack all along the luu by the w ind anil
waves may send tho ce
rt'.trintr over tho rieho-t fare
and fair cities, and !ri
houses The great rivers t
a boiling and
' v. the world,
alr-g C'.n-.ntry-
an- a!moi as
dangerous as
r.in-fallP.dt!-
the iKi-sn. Every year the
melting snows from Sw;:.
er.ar.u vuniia'.iy t-. e.ic jh tiow n
upon the Cats of lloliand. Here tho slug
gish uiss s-lowlydrag' iw If Wtwcen co-;ly
tmbaskttuTits t- the sea. At ll.ttwxk, the
Ehiue is positively lifted out of Holland by
powerful maclunerv. In Frar.ee t'.oolsare
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Tiie Domain ol Death-Tbe Terrible
Two .Month of I.Ue In Mirvtejtort.
A L' r.:i -man w ho has spent the p.i.-t two
months in Shrtvejtort thus relates his yellow
lever exponents to a rejortcr of the New
York 11- r.ihl: The percentage of deaths at
the mot violent j riod of the pestilence
was ! out iA every H0. Sixty it cent,
was alxmt the average, but there w ere never
less than forty deaths to every hundred per
sons attacked. The symptoms begin with
a violent pain in tUc heal and shoulders.
Heavy aches and numbness then attacked
the bones in the limbs. The fever then set
in and the pulse rose to 120 to 1 10 per min
ute. The crUis of the disease arrived in
about three days w hen the fever left the
patient; then, if the kidneys could le kept
right, the case was a hopeful one. All of
the deaths occurred either front black
vomit, which is the complete putrefaction
of the stomach, or from the entire seques
tration of the urinary organs. There was
hardlv a case of the disease where the
catheta Iid not have to be resorted to. The
period of the disease was in each case ow
ing to the constitution of the patient the
strongest did not surv ive a week.
The treatment was simply a hot mustard
bath, w ith castor oil as a cathartic. Calo
mel, the old specific in this disease, was en
tirely discarded. Fear killed a great many.
Recovery in the lest cases was a matter of
coolness constitution and good luck. The
shortness of the supply of nurses prompted
the organization of the Howard Association
in Shreveport, Mr. L. R. Simmons being
elected president. The president of the
association in New Orleans, Mr. E. F.
Schmidt, came at once to Shreveport with
nurses and physicians. The deaths among
the nurses did not exceed live. The great
est mortality ninong any one sect was in the
ranks of the Catholic clergy. They were
very faithful iu their ministrations cn the
sick and dyyig. The Protestant ministers
were equally fearless of death, and just as
indefatigable in the discharge of their sa
cred duty. The telegraph operators were
the next heaviest sufferers in proportion to
numbers four out of six .'ailing victims to
the terrible disease.
There was no such thing as funeral ser
vices at the churches or at the graves.
Every place of ba!noss was closed except
the drug stores ;.ud liquor saloons. The
churches were closed. The formalities of
burial were very few. The deaths were re
ported to the Howard Association, which
at oace detailed workmen to dig graves.
The coffin was taken to the sidewalk in
front of the house. The corpse was brought
from the house, put into the box, and after
being closed up, the casket was placed in a
wagon, and driven in a gallop to the ceme
tery. There it was deposited beside the
undug or only partially completed grave.
The grave-digger was left alone with the
corpse and his own thoughts. Ho got the
box into the grave as best he could. The
cemetery, and especially the Potter's field,
looks like a battle field with its newly made
graves. I
There were no hearses to convey the
bodies with some show of decorum to their
last resting places. No mourners follow ed
the corpse to the grave. Those who would
have wished to goto the funeral of a friend
were required attliebeds of a dying wife or
child. The sick monopolized the attention
of the living; the dead were regarded as
beyond all the help of love or affection.
High and low, rich and poor, were buried
alike. Whole families were swept out of
existence not a member left. There are
120 little orphans who have lost both father
nnd mother. They will be raised by the
State of Louisiana.
The fever virtually terminated on the
twenty-sixth of October, when aheavy frost
chilled the atmosphere, and by stiffening up
the ground stopped the formation of the
malaria. Regarding myself I can only say
that I never had the fuver, and prior to go
ing to Shreveport as a volunteer, I had
never seen a case of the disease.
Spa nUIi Outrages on Freemason.
From the Brooklyn Argus.
Another horrible chapter in the stoiy of
Spanish crime is made public. It relates to
the horrible indignities heaped upon Free
masons and their families by the monsters
who have misruled Cuba in the name apd by
the authority of the Spanish government.
It seems that about four years ago the Span
ish authorities arrested the members of the
Grand Lodge of Santiago dc Cuba. The
brethren were denied a trial, and the day
following their arrest were conveyed to a
lonely neighborhood outside the city and
put to death. This was but the beginning
of a series of horrible outrages that have
continued almost without intermission for
the past four years. Every man found to be
a Freemason has been shot or banished to
Spanish penitentiaries in Africa. The rec
ord of persecutions to which the Free
masons have been subjected is now fitly cli
maxed. On the night of the seventh of
November, after the volunteers had con
cluded the slaughter of the crew of the
Yirginius, their thirst for blood was such
that they attacked the wives of murdered
Freemasons, abusing the defenseless females
and putting four of them to death.. The
story seems too horrible to be credited, but
unfortunately it is true.
We are not surprised to know that the
Freemasons of this section are aroused to
indignation by the intelligence of tho out
rages above chronicled. Right Worshipful
EUwood E. Thome, Deputy Grand Master
of this State, has already united with a large
number of prominent officers and brethren
in a petition to the Master, Warden, and
brcthern of the different lodges in this juris
diction. The petition briefly recites the
crimes above mentioned, and concludes in
these words: "In the, name of humanity,
and in obedience to our sense of justice, we
ask vou to forward the enclosed document.
signed b- your oil! ers and under the seal of
till- lodge, to the Most Worshipful Grand
Master of Masons of this State, Christopher
G. Fox, requesting him to call an emergent
session of the Grand Lodge, to take sucn
action thereon as they in their wisdom may
see fit.
Prominent Freemasons of Brooklyn, w ith
whom a reporter conversed, state that the
recent indignities are of such a revolting
nature that the fraternity would be talsc to
iu fundamental professions if it neglected
to express its sense of these Spanish bar
barities, or failed to take action looking to
the protection of persecuted brethren and
their families. It is believed that Grand
Master Fox will call the emergent session
tu-omntlv. Tiie whole civilized world will
sanction the efforts of the Freemasons of
this country to bring to justice the fiends
whoso inhuman atrocities are eiironieicei
above.
A Capitalist") Seclusion.
One of the marvels of metropolitan life is
a case now on trial in tho Surrogate Court
in New York. It is the history of an im
porter, who, duringtwenty-fiveycarscarned
two millions and an honorable reputation,
and moved day by day among his business
acquaintances as a wealthy bachcior, ana
vet night after night west to his home in an
obscure quarter of the city to meet a lady
w ho claimed and was acknowledged to be
his wife, and a few neighbors who knew
him under ati assumed urine, and never
dreamed that he was a millionaire. George
Hardin was lim iii the early part of this
century near Belfast, Ireland, and came to
this country in bis twenty-first year. He
establi-hed'htmself in business in this city
as an importer of Irish linens and si.nse
uirr.tlv became the airent of a lh.lf.t-t
!'o"e " Doir. r business alternately in W.
iiam. Pine, Broad and Liberty streets he
Y.-,.H-rl-d and grew rich.. . Those who had
business dealing with him knew nothing cf
bis orivate life: his chosen comrades in
ci.d life had no knowledge of Ir.s business
relations. He was reticent, retiring, frugal,
almost penurious : h;s business acquaintances
suj-po-e-.l that he was a rich old bachelor,
and few of them knew where he lived. He
finally retired from the importing buncss
:ui.l ir. rea-ed bis fortune by buying com
mni..l paper and snaking investments m
-.fo secum:c. ltts circle ol acqutuntii.cfs
was verv largo, and he was v.t.l known by
Irish n shk-r.ts, and ytt tor ce:.r;y
tv. !.t-hve year rc uvea a- a :
under an a.-suiiKvl r..;u:e.'iu :.u
in ;i. Ninth ward.
aie 1 ia.:n
re 5trvLt
Iu 1 i a gt :;'.hi'.i.ui fitly v. uts el l, -i; I a
hid vtwvutv w.-.rs ve-irg.r, leased a plain
two-story he.u i.i Corn lla ' street. Hi
1 ir. II : Vuud his r.t'ghbcrs kv.ew tluni as
Mr. I Mr;. WV.ker. A v u:: - r:: u
. d Si- .rks vl:h l.i-i wife at. 1 tv. !
tefie.lthe5ecr.r;.i throf the h.
I-r
a year, and afterwr-l lept upt!i- acquaint-!
ar.ee. Mrs. Dunn, lh ir.g across the street, j
and a few others ' 'cas.hinu'ly visited them. .;
but they sehl jui made or rcc ived ch'U. Li
the directory bis name w as reco. .led a ' J
"George Wulk-r." lie purtha-cd the;
house, and liol theic with his t oi.ip.i;.: :i j
nitil bis dct,h. );i the morning of March j
7, 172, Geo. Walker. few acqtiuir.tar.i es j
saw with a;:i:.z'.:nc-:it ti e announcement that ,
George Ib.rdin had died at No. ti'. Con.eha I
street, and .s.iou after the fiun-rul they heard
with incrca.-I woudctMcr.t that their oil
friend, Mrs. Walker, who had lived so sim
ply and plainly among them for to many
years, had applied for letters of administra
tion on the c.-tate of George Hardin, which
consi.-ted mainly of jn-tsonal property worth
2,00O,O00. The administrators in surh
cases arc forced to give bombs for double
the value of the personal estate; but as this
was out of the question, the Surrogate
placed the securities in the hands of the
United States Trust Company, and then
granted the letters of aihnini.-tration. At
this juncture six nephews of Mr. Hardin,
residing in Belfast, interposed a claim that
the lady was Mrs. Walker, and not Mrs.
Hardin his mistress, and not his w ife.- As
Mr. Hardin had left no will, one-half of his
estate belonged to this lady, if she was his
wife. There have been several sessions of
the Surrogate's Court in this case, and addi
tional testimony will be offered to-day.
The contestants, through Burrill, Davis "&
'But rill, arc attempting to show that it was
not a legal marriage; the lady, through
Robert If. CorUtt and the Hon. John K.
Porter, maintains that it was.
The .fllnmanazemeut of Cotton.
The following cotton statistics are com
piled from the ""ew York Journal f Cvm
iiurre and other reliable sources, showing
the number of bales grown each year for
tight years, and the value of the staple on
the first of February:
Kirst September, lSW. (i);iic;0 2,1."!.013
Firrt September, ls;7 1,'.p.")1.!1S
Fir September, 1SI1S 2,-:ln..i:t
Kirst September, ISi.li a.iixi,.Vii
Kina Septeti) br, HTO a.i'io.h-.'S
Y'Tl September, 171 t.:j.V.',.il7
Kiret September, 1S7-2. 8.t7 1..T1
First September, ls7'S :v.iji,.V-S
Total Sl.STCU'H
First February, 1HM (price)., i 4." c
Firet February, isi" .72 c
First February, WH l'c
Fimt February, isiw Sx'c
First February, 1S70 24 c
Fimt February, 1H71 lt -.c
First February, 1N72 fci'jc
Firet February, 173 ; 1:m,c
Average 85 41-100
Tho average annual value of this crop is
two hundred and ninety million dollars.
These figures show that this Southern staple
has sold for two thousand three hundred
and twenty million dollars in the last eight
vcars, since the war. This is a larger sum
by $200, 000, 000 than our present national
debt. How much of this capital extracted
from our plantations, asks the Nashville
Union, can be found in the possession of
those who raise over 23,000,000 bales of
cotton? This is a question for Southern
farmers to answer. Our impression is that
by miscalculation and sr.d mismanagement,
only a fraction, and in too many cases, a
small fraction, of this money remains with
the producers. They nnd " their families
have had a living out of their productive
industry; but it is by no means certain that
they have saved enough over and above
consumption and all indebtedness, to make
every co'.ton field as rich in fertilizing mat
ter for a crop in 1874, as it was ten years
ago. If not, then their labor and mismana
gement have wasted or otherwise consumed
a part of the earth's natural fruitfulncss in
this decade, with scant means, and in some
cases no means left to make proper restitu
tion to the depleted soil. A system of
planting and farming which results so in
juriously to the land and its owner has serious
defects, and calls for prompt and lasting
reform. Too often the crop is pledged for
provisions, working stock, or corn and fer
tilizers to make a crop, before the seed is
planted. In all cases of this kind the
planter can hardlv be said to bo his own
master or master of the situation. He
stands in a false position by being in debt at
all, and is liable to be morally, if not
legally compelled to sacrifice his com
pensation for land and other capital in
vested, that his factor or other
creditor may reap double interest , or
more on his investment. In all planting!
and farming operations, these silent part
ners holding all common property for their
security are like the still sow that gets more
than her share of Cue corn or swill fed to alb
Beware of all temptations to run or walk
into debt. It is the great curse of the age
in which we live. Rightly managed, there
is a great deal of money in cotton In
making haste to get rich, men lose a part of
their best judgment, and in this weakened
state of sound common sense, they misman
age in a thousand ways their whole financial
and industrial svstem. It is a common er
ror to draw on a man who has currency, pro
visions, or fertilizers to sell, when the
checks should be on the cheaper and more
profitable storehouse of nature. Her agri
cultural resources have yet to be fully ex
plored in the best cotton climates and soil3
of the South. The first cost of raising ma
nure, even on a poor field, is generally less
than to buy it in market, haul it home, and
apply it to the land. A bale of cotton, if
rightly studied, is as much a manufactured
article as a bolt of cotton cloth, yet farmers
do not. look at this great staple, or any other
crop, in this true light. Hence their mis
management. This will continue lo their
serious injury, until they sec h-fiire-hiul
what nature requires to form a paying crop,
and how the raw material consumed for
that purpose, may be had at the least possi
ble cost. Cotton may be manufactured out
of carbon and the elements of water, which
together make 98 1-2 percent, of the staple,
much cheaper than is now done, and it can
go to consumers burdened with smaller
commissions. The whole transaction should
be earnestly studied as an art and science.
Our climate is incomparable, and so far as
our soil is defective, it can be easily inv
proved by wise co-operation. Fanners may
yet be in a condition to bundle their cotton
and other staples, and happily be quite in
dependent of all banks and speculators; but
they must creep before they walk, and
walk lefore they run. r hrnlm.
Pii.viuiEftrcs arc raging in every direction.
Yesterday the northern and eastern sky was
covered with a pall of smoke, through
which could occasionally be seen the flames
as they leaped over and through the tall
grass at race horse speed. At one time it
was feared the fire would sweep down the
vallev and through the citv, but the wind
changing a little to the west, the flames
were driven southeast across the hid of
Chisholm creek, a couple of miles north of
town. e have not heard of the amount
of damage done so far, but from the breadth
of territory burned over it must be very
great. We are informed that the fire
started from the K. P. road on Monday,
and that the whole country between here
and there is burned over. Although the
wind has fallen, there is every reason to le-
lieve that the country lw-tween here nnd the
Walnut will be burned over, and manv a
settler will have his entire crop destroyed.
Willi iU ic-fY'.i.
Alexander H. StErutrxs, Yice Prcsi
dent of tbe Southern Confederacy, whose
disabilities were removed last year, takes
his seat as a Representative iu Congress
from the Eighth er C rawionlsviue (Georgia)
district, r.cxt Monday. His reappearance
on tho sbige in which he figured so long
will le an event. He sat in the Roue
eighteen years, from 184:to 1PG1, a leader
from first to last; was a chief in the rebel
lion from lt)l to 1S'", and was impris
oned in Fort Warren and released by An
drew Johnson in !v0"j; ati-1, after taking an
active tvtrt in mccceoins tvutties, cones
back pardoned bv his government t his oh:
place, and welcomed by all his lato tu mie.
He was sixty-one r n ruary II, I!1.;', and is
perhaps the fi eldest specimen of attenuut-d
hcmar.itv ever win ir.si.le the National
Capitol. Thr
A Boston dispatch of November ll .:ys:
Reports from the manufacturing sections of
NewIIrghtu l are more cheering this morn-
ir.tr. There ;s tews oi
tin: resum it;-
o:
b:i ircss i:i severs! places, and the ruat.ir g
of m.intifjitories n increased tiin?. The
exaggerated t h lruit-.-r of the many state-Uier-ts
that Jiave to-; cured i daily i-.-ouiir.g
mere rppartut.
M. tt i.i-ek-tit.W
J. i
are
l-.irg taken by the C'.iiu-:(-.'.
to forax aM se;.'th.s,
td th:.t there will 1 e grtat
th- :-t tb.N wir.i' r in" th:t
It is 1 Vi.t
... g amor.::
I the SerrrI Sertlee Iu League Tilth (he
Couiiterfriierf
A N York p q-T says counterfeit fifty
t ent notes, ten dollar notes and fifty dollar
notes have been in circulation for yeats and
:.ie so met ly executed as to ! almost I
y-ud kt i ti.i!i. It says:
They re silt i; e.yict imitations of the gen
uhie that th-; ii i.-t.tnt treasurer in New
York was umd.'c to decide whether they
wi re e winter fett or not, and forwarded
theiii to the Treasury Department, where it
required a whole day's examination by two
c.xjKTts to point out a few minor defects,
which of course were corrected by the
counterfeiters as soon as thev were made
public. All the efforts of the secret ser
vice division t crtpiurt; the plates on which
the counterfeit li ites were printed or to
cause- the arrest of ;i single professional
co tntcrfeiter have signally failed.
But ju-t now a cry is raised, and the Ad
ministration newspapers simultaneously
publish a glow ing account of raids on coun
terfeiters in North Carolina and Tennessee.
This is only a ruse to deceive the public
and create the impression that the govern
ment officers are breaking up, root and
branch, all counterfeiting. A more trans
parent fraud was never attempted on the
public That there has been some counter
feit money "shoved" in the mountains of
Tennessee and North Carolina is quite
probable, but it is miserably executed, poor
lithographed stuff. The principal business
in this locality has been the counterfeiting
of internal revenue stamps for tobacco and
distilled spirits. Nearly all of this has been
done by photography. Not a single plate
w ill be captured in all these raids, and if
there is a single conviction of the sixty al
leged counterfeiters arrested, it w ill be by
suborned testimony.
Something like "00,000 are annually ex
pended in the secret service, and of course
thete must be a great noise made occasion
ally m the newspapers about its' efficiency.
During the present administration, this
branch 'of public service has been prosti
tuted to political uses, and the only work it
has ever done has been outside of its legiti
mate functions. When the most noted and
accomplished counterfeiters in the world
daily lounge in the streets within sight al
most of the headquarters of the secret ser
vice division in New York, and are unmo
lested, the public should cease to regard as
of any importance the periodical newspaper
accounts of raids on counterfeiters made in
obscure out-of-the-way places where an ac
complished ami dangerous rascal is never
seen.
Suicide and Ml'c Insurance.
Life insurance policies usually contain a
clause providing that if the insured shall
die by his own hand, the policy shall be
come void. An important case upon this
subject has just been concluded in the
United States Circuit Court of Iowa. Chas.
L. llogan, whose life was insured by a New
York company, killed himself in 1871, and
thecouipaiiy declined to pay, on the ground
that llogan had died by his own hand,
within the meaning of the exception stated
in the policy. Ilogan's administrator con
sequently brought suit, admitting the sui
cide, but declaring that the act had been
committed while llogan was "temporarily
insane." Upon the insunijty issue the trial
took place before a jury, there being first
excluded from the jury box, however, all
jurors who had "the preconceived opinion
that a man was conclusively insane merely
because he committed suicide." Upon the
side of the administrator evidence was pro
duced to show that llogan had in the latter
part ot his life, changed from an affection
ate husband and father to one who was irri
table and morose; that he complained of
pains in the head ; treated his wife and
children harshly, but afterwards denied all
remembrance of such conduct; and that,
in the opinion of several physicians, who
testified as experts, he was really insane.
Upon the side of the insurance company,
this charge in his conduct was admitted,
but they declared that it was produced by
a clmerent cause than insanity. Ihey
showed that his family relations were un
pleasant; that he got into severe pecuniary
embarrassment; was a defaulter to the ex
press company by which he was employed,
ind had embezzled a $.)00 money package,
which the company was engaged just before
his death in tracing out. Exposure being
imminent,' he tried to borrow the money ne
cessary to make good his deficit, and finally
the superintendent of the expness company
unexpectedly appeared in Ilogan's office to
investigate his accounts, and on the same
day llogan shot himself. The jury, after
an hour's deliberation, gave a verdict for
the insurance company, and declared, in a
special finding, that llogan voluntarily took
Ins ow n life. A motion subsequently made
for a new trial was overruled. This case
has an important bearing upon life insurance
in connection with suicide.
A Clilld-Krldeof ITIlMsotiri.
While Ave were in the court house in Linn
last week, listening to the testimony in the
case of the State vs. Lade, for abandoning
his wife and children, a little girl was in
troduced as a witness. In manner (and
general appearance she was simply a child,
and we icadily thought ought, on account of
her youth, have been spared the ordeal to
winch Witnesses in a court of justice are
generally subjected. The first question
asked by the attorney was:
."Are you a married lady?"
uur astonishment can be better imag
ined than described, when she promptly re
plied:
"Yes, sir."
"How long have you been married?" ask
ed the lawyer.
"About two years.''
"And how old are you now?"
"I will be thirteen in December."
, In reply to other questions she stated
that, she and her husband had not lived to
gcthcr since their marriage, and that she
was induced to marry through the threats
of her father -who had some mercenary ob
ject in view.
After the adjournment of the court we
sought an interview with the young lady
and her mother in order to ascertain, the par
ticulars of this extraordinary marriage,
The maiden name of this child-bride was
Christina Lade. She was born in this
country December o, 1SG0, and was married
to Michael Frankewich (aged IS)), January
1, IS. 2. being at the time of her marriage
only a few days over eleven years of age,
She stated to us that her father, by threats
of punishment in case of refusal, compelled
her to consent to this untimely union, bid
ding her under severe enalties to tell the
justice that she was over fourteen years old
Cti'iitotK Ixiiil-r.
lie Tradition Orialu or the
Canon.
Orand
Ot the vast collection of Inditn myths
and legends laboriously gathered by tie
intrepid, one-armed row'cwr, Major Pow
ell, lew are more interesting than that
which describes, in ti c mythology of the
Utes, the origin of the Grand Canon of the
Colorado a marvel worthy to rank with the
Seven Wonders. It tells how, in the olden
time, the wife of the great war chief of the
Utes died, and the chief was inconsolable,
and called upon bis Tawotz to take pity on
him and lead him to bis wife. And the
god lotoicd upon linn and saw that be was
unhappy, and, taking bis huge magic ball
in his hand, be- rolled it before him on the
ground, and w here it rolled it cut far down
into the earth and opened the Grand Canon
tiKjiisands of feet deep. And through it
the god led the heavy hearted chief of the
Utts and showed him his wife in Iks happy
buating grounds, and, lending bun bark.
lie por.reu a nug.ity river inrocgn mc
canon and fihuvg their trail, that no one
j might 1.- able to follow after them, and the
nver oas continued to run ever since. ji.
'. .vrfrf, ih "0'7 o'lJ yet:'' j'tfDi-ren,Jrr.
Li.rru.vNTiAsis. Joscim Perry, of Brook
lyn, died on the fifteenth inst.. of a disease
known to nt' Ik:,! men as ele'h.intiflsi
The sv:tsro'.:n , the malady are a swelling
of the skin of the: Sg, which becomes
thickened until it a-sn:uestte immense pro
port i rs t f i.i t' ; h.i!;ta leg. Mr. Perry
was u t.ii he. 1 two e.r and ten mouths
At f'.r-t hj did r. t know w hut w as the
l:..
! i-:
. tiottet d a pectdiar r'.Kihr.ess of
his rV.t kg. and ft It it pain
ly. I!e h ut ver. ailovved it t j
'. sih,g a physician, until at
rir.gj w ere so ir.tersctl.it he
tU- :..n "5
. TU-
.iii saw
No
:- .-,v i
course f the disease. Tho only known
treatments merely tend to al'eviitt; the pain,
and lengthen in reality the lingering attack.
In a few months the skin l.came thickened
and black, and hked exactly like the bide
of an elephant. The patient was cnaMetl to
walk with a little diilicuUy for the first year
of his attack, but after that the iinib'had
swelled to such proportions as to prevent
locomotion of any kind, and he had to stay
a prisoner in his house. Altera year's in
tense suffering, Mr. Perry died from sheer
exhaustion the usual manner in such cases.
Tle ?Iortli or the V.r.
The Stokes trial has developed some cu
rious conduct at the bar. Judge Davis
who presided at the trial, did himself much
honor by bis charge to the jury, and he w as
manifestly convinced of Hie prisoner's guilt.
But Mr. Trennune, the prisoner's counsel, is
brought uuder the lash for his extraordi
nary language subsequent to the virtual ac
quittal. He is thus reported :
"A great tictory," said a gentlemen to
Mr. Tremaine.
"A great, great victory," answered Mr.
Tremaine, with emphasis.
A great victory for Mr. Tremaine, under
the peculiar circumstances, meant a disas
trous overthrow of justice. The Baltimore
Gtuctte has an appropriate comment upon
this distortion ot the statute law and out
rage against equity.
"Tothc mere technical lawyer, caring noth
ing but for his client, seeing, according to
Lord Brougham's axiom, nothing but his
client, right or wrong, it w as a 'great, great
victory.'
"So in civil ma'ters David Dudley Field
upheld Gould and Fisk in all their rascali
ties and justified himself to his conscience.
New York City has changed its judges and
obtained, after much trouble and a hard
fight, very good substitutes; if she could
change some of her lawyers, it would be
the better for.Iicr; if she could also w ipe out
some of her juries, it would be the best of
all."
A part of Mr. Treniaine's "great victory"
has appeared in the appropriate sequel. We
now learn by telegraph that the jury were
tampered w ith by officers of the law, and
that these men who were sw orn to do justice
were permitted to roam the streets of New
lork without restriction.
Such victories as that of "Mr. Tremaine
corrupt the very foundations of society, and
like the triumphs of Pyrrhus over the Ro
mans a few more such end the legal fra
ternity who countenance them will be mor
ally undone. Augunta Conttitutionlh?.'
A Qcebkc paper states that the settlers on
the Island of Anticosti arc represented in a
starving condition, and the Canadian gov
ernment lias dispatched a steamer with pro
visions. The hardships of the ocean iron-clads.
Miscellaneous.
A
SSIGNMENT OF THF, DOCKET
or Tim
Supreme Court of Texas
DECEMBER TEJtM. 1873.
Two wevk are asi-itinod for hearin" causes from the.
F'ret, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth DUtrietf, com
mencing on Monday, December 1, 1H7.1.
Three wvukit are axiincd for hearing cattsca from the
Sixth and Seventh DUlricts, cominenciag oa Monday,
December 15, 1873.
a wo week are assigned for hearing Cannes from the
Eiirhth, Ninth and Tenth District, coinmcneiiii! on
Monday, Junuary 12, 1874.
a nrec weeks are assigned for hearing canscs from
the Twenty-first. Twenty-eihth and Twenty-ninth Dis
tricts, commencing on Monday, Junuary $, 1874.
Three weeks are assigned for heHrin"; catiws from
tho Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Thirtieth Districts,
commencing on Monday, February 10, 1874.
Two weeks arc assiened for hearing causes from the
Eleventh and Twelfth Districts, commencing on Mon-
unv. .niucu jii, jot-t.
Three weeks ar assigned for hearing causes from
the Thirteenth, Fi -tcenth and Thirty-fifth Districts,
commencing on Mor. v, March 80, 1874.
lhree weeks are ass ued for hearing causes from
the Twenty-second anu Twenty-Huvcnth Districts.
commencing on Monday, April SO, 1874.
Two weeks re assigned for hearing causes from the
Thirty-first, Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Districts,
commencing on Monday, May 11, 1874.
Two weeks arc assigued for hearing causes from the
Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Twentieth Dis
trlots, commencing on Monday, May 25, 1874.
Two weeks are assigned for hearing causes from the
Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, Twenty
sixth and Thirty-second Districts, commencing on
Monday, June 8, 1874.
ay oraer or tne C ourr.
oclOSm W. P. DE NOKMANDEE, Clerk.
QARRY TIIE NEWS!
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, having
completed anil opened for business their Kotfh Eastern
Extension (Missouri Division) from Sedalia to Hanni
bal, are now running their Elegant Equipped Trains
through to Hannibal without charge.
Passengers for points in Northern Missouri, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Upper Mississippi region,
Northern and Central Illinois, Chicago, Michigan and
the Great Northeast, will find this tho Shortest, Cheap
est and Quickest Eonte. Tlirough Cars xc'Ul contlnne
to run through to St. Louis without change, via Se
dalia as heretofore.
For full information as to time, and a correct map of
thla line and its connections, address, '
JAMES D.BROWN, ; TUOS. DORWIN,
Gen'l Ticket Agent, Gen'l Pass. Agent,
Sedalia, Mo. - St. Louis, Mo.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Hallway,
With Its connections. Is the Shortest, Quickest and
Only Direct Route from all Points iu Texas, the In
dian Nation and Southern Kansas, to St. Louis, Ilunnl-
nai, cnicago ana an prominent tasteni 1'oints. Kures
ns low and time quicker than any other road in the
market. All claims for loss, damage or overcharge
promptly settled. Merchants ordering goods from the
East will save tirrfe and money by consigning care M.,
ft. & l. Kunwav.
D. A. FREER,
Gen'l Eastern Agent, S4 Broadway, N. Y.
D. K. WILLIAMS,
Agent, 48 Clark street, Chicago.
GEO. W. LII.LEY,
Contracting Agent, 404 Walnut street, St. Louis, Mo.
W. GAGE,
Arnt, Hannibal. Mo.
J. W. IiLRCH,
Contracting Agent. Dallas, Texas,
W. P. ROBINSON.
janH wly Gen'l Freight Agent, Sedalla, Mo.
QEORGE F. GAGE & CO.,
Manufacturers aud Dealers la .
Saddles, llarnevs,
Saddlery, Hardware.
Collars, M hips and Leather
Un1-dAw1 Pecan ati-cot Anst'jt Texas.
QREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES.
Carriages,
Buggies,
Harness,
Jersey Wagons,
Children's Carriages, '
Itoircv Umbrellas.
And Vol el pedes or every pattern and
prlee.
Work inaik to ordt-r and warranted.
D. M. HOLUNGSWORTn,
Successor to R. Iarh Denman & Co.,
54 and 5i BaronneSt., New Orleans, La.
oc-30 wfim
yyEED & VAUGIIAX, "
MANUFACTURERS OF
SADDLES AND HARNESS.
WE ARE NOW OPENING TP TIIE LAIlfiEST
and b-t iiortrd ctork of dd!i- t;.1 Ii.nnicM
er on the mrW.-t. Ai-o bridi-. bink-ts. ha.irr
an,lbip in nai- vari-iii-s. Every rliviji'inn of
Texas sV.uictrcc. att.-ctitm paid to the ri;-'in
(f at nek tJJ-. to oriirr, atif' iim jr!'!.:--d.
Coamry m-rriiarti wrxiid well to ciii before
pun fcatn7. f.ir e kw-peoostantly n tand a eor:j-:-te
and rm-rr.l ttirtm;i,t of rvery t:.ini t-i jv'.i -z to
osr i:D. l.irs done well aul firomMly.
work at low price. C;pu:e Brttu.J . An-t:n,
Texas. au .'s '.'a
TAMES BIIOWN,
vnnzLTzmGiiT,
IlolsdMrr 4., Opposite .milers Malic.
Wa .- asj-1 at Vied f wr.d (.r2 n-j'?'-!
QmDLRIVm EIIATTON.
KoU !Arc C;-po!te ."l;:rs StaLle.
I! - ? -.J 41 cf r .-.v'r'-.r .r.,i w :U
t'r. i'T- :---;(.,. r s-. a. A i r--i.-f i. :H !.y f., we mat
t .1 :;.,: te s-.-l ;"-:,'t. kOwL
Miscellaneous.
NEW JEWELRY STORE,
l utir Attune Ut,l, li.n-rc-- Atoiif,
.1. AV. C. LOVi; A-ii,
lias a well tvlcetctl frtock of fine Jomrlry, watiU-.. etc.,
uliich re offered t rva-nbl pricr. These j;iou,
which hve becu jmrrhasfd from fiit Uauds, enabK-
him to compete ith ny other cMOblii-hmi-nt. 1U hi;;
come tt-rc to ty, repectfully policits a Uan: ef jmbl
lie patroussre. Watche recused, diamond rrot, and
jewelry made to order. Everything guaranteed a rep
resented. noS7 dJtwlm
K
ELLY'S FOUNDRY,
. A. KELLY, Proprietor,
JEFFERSON, TEXAS.
XAsrrACTvnttt or
COOKING AND HEATING STOVES.
CAST TURNING TLOWS,
Shovels and Scoutcrs, Wash Kettles, Country llol.
low Ware, Dog Irons, etc, etc Inducement offered
to tho trade. Send for price list. novST d A w ly
J"
S. P. McKINXEY.
1 w rontiuao merchandisiuff at Palm's old stand,
and will keep pa hand
Dry Goods,
Groceries,
Liquors, Etc.,
Which 1 will sell for cash, cotton, hidea or wool, at
prices as low as they can he sold for without loss.
Small profits, prompt payment and fair dealing are the
rules br which I iutena to bo governed in my business.
I shall be happy to meet my old friends and aeo.uain
tanees at all times, and still more happy to establish
business relations with them.
I refer all new comers to any one who has known mo
for years, as to my reputation for living up to my
promises.
4 AO. I . r. i .
Austin, May 31, 1873. roariaW-ly
J HAVE NOW IN STOKE,
And to arrive, the hrgest and bsst assorted stock of
Stoves,
Tinware,
Hardware.
House Furnishing Goods and Building Material ever
before placed on this market, and offer great induce
er great inuuc
S. B. BRUSH,
ments for cash,
juncg d&wly
B
HAD KEY,
CONGHESS AVENUE,
xaHurACTCRER or
C0PFEK, TIN AND SHEET IRON WAKE
Also A cent for tho celebrated II earth Side Cooking
Stove, the best In the market.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Tin Wars Rumps,
Stoveii, etc.
All Jo Work attended to wrh neatness and dis
patch. Rootling d Guttering done to orier.
noviuwir
4 L'STIN COLLEGIATE FEMALE IN-
2 STITUTE.
It. J. sraiTII. A. IT!., Principal. ..
The twcntT-secona year commences the first day of
September, 1K73, closes eleventh of June, 1X74.
Hoard can be bad in tne ramuy or tne principal at
$100, coin, per seision.
For circulars or particulars, address tne principal.
anl4 wly
w
ACO UNIVERSITY,
"Employed dally last year twelve professors nd
teachers and martricuiated two nunurea ana nini'ty
flvc students, and can accommodate four hundred
next session.
Full term o)Kns the first Monday in Septemher.lRTS.
For catalogue or particulars, address the president.
au2'. w3m RUFUS C. BL'RLESUX, I. 1).
OST.
Hoceial Act. Rountv Warrant No. . for HI-JO acres.
issued to tho heirs of Charles 8. Hard wick bv the Com
missioner of the General Land Oftlre on the seventh of
February, A. I). lSori. If not beard of in ninety days
application will be made to obtain aduplicntp.
nu2Sw!hv Agents for Owners. '
F
OR SALE.
MY FARM. FIVE MILES FROM ACSTIN. ON
tho Lockhart road. Fine three-story building, twelve
rooms; good spring and cistern; 500 acres of land iu
the tract, 800 in cultivation; tenant houses and all nec
essary out-houses and convenience belonging to
first clnss farm. For terms, apply on the pr"Mse, or
to T. E. Sneed, Austin.
martwtr . u. b.-vjikij, b.
L
OST.
Hi adright certificate No. 82, issued to James M.
Crawford by the Board of Land Commissioners of
Washington county, for S10 acres.
if not heard from within ninety days, application
will be made for a duplicate.
T. L. WREN,
novll wOt Agent for owner.
JOST WARRANTS.
Treasury warrants Nos. ttlS and 4000, issud to II.
C. Pedigo for tm 68 each.
J. E. IIOLLINGSWORTU.
sell w3m flashier Savings Rank. -
LOST.
lleadright Certillcate No. 6.W for one-third of
a league, issued to (Jeo. Clark July 12, lis!, by tho
Land Commissioners of Brazoria county. Also
herdright certificate No. 514, for oue-third league, is
sued to Reuben Ross June H. 1K1S, br tho Land Com
missioners of Harnsbnri county. If not heard from
in the time prescribed by law, application will be ui.'e
for duplicate. L ll. juh.s & iu.,
Agent for Owner.
Austin, Texas, December 4, 1873. de w5t
B.
C. WELLS.
WATCHMAKER & JEWELER,
Congress Avenne, Austin, Texas.
Dealer in fine jewelry,
Diamonds, Chains, Bracelets,
Fine American Watches, Keth Thomaa' clocks, and of-
nce calenders, silver and silver plated warn.
Spectacle of all kinds, clocks, fancy goods, ew.
Special attention ziven to repairing fine watches.
All work warranted. Goods warranted. mardwtf
LARGE
STOCK OF ROSENDALE
JIalr. unci
PIjUGTEIII PilHIG
Constantlj cn Hand, at Low Trices.
JuncS di wly 8. B. BRUSH.
B. OWEN'S
T. W.
QWENS & ENGLISH,
. (Successor to Sork-y & Owens,
COTTON PAOTOUD
AID
GENERAL COMMLSSIOX KER CHANTS,
122 and 124 Strand, Galveston, Texas,
Manufacture ApenU for all kind of
MILL and PLANTATION 3IACIIINERY
cosT.jrn.T o haid,
A Vull Mck r Ames, WaUrtown as
I Ilea Portable and Ktatlenary
Me am Knslnes.
f hf:in7. Pullers ard fiira R-nT, all k'"-U.
Srcara I-nrnp ar.d I'ortilj.e CircoUr Saw ;::.
Sfiiniie i.iat.
-1 ru !" torn ei. l "htat jlZ'.t.
fmm'i-!! i!i Sf'srsi.-r
C "I.KM (N s t x',i,S A',1 WHEAT MILLM.
hLAl'f.M ANii yOl.i.
!!' i. I .' S, Mane.' efc.
"1-Jliie" Colt'm ICi.Um Giq Feeder.
W'-yr U.-yr Ev--.rs'.fi,
i.r. r.ii avii i h.v I iT 1 N V' -
I. M. tiZATH.
Q L E B U 11 N E.
v. a. kiatii.
it r.T. 1 1 n ati i d cno
RILVL ESTATE, COLLECTINfj AGMNT.i
ti ur vi;vo i : ,
CLr!.u:iNr. jc-;: c.-t;n ty, teias
ornwlyr v& I t.-:l.vra I -if VS.'j'.t L.
Medical.
yIVELY FOli T11K LADli;
Wc wcr aki-d :e oth. r ;.ir hy it , l311.U-il
Ei'Ulifh l-em.iu li;ttir ,t-l,lv. our n.i-r .
and In. that hae -ix.uai i id, it. . .f in errat
taiucin this tKi'iiHHrt eotia:y A -.xxl .livi hiti !:i .
iujfilit usilex fr'm town m1 tu our (trust.".! t!t
Kugtit.li Female Uittfrswa tv l--t fejnleu.-dU :
ho ever sued. trK', f i ! 'i.-.7.
Knl;h Female i'.-:ii ! hi.-lilv rve.nunn-u.lci t,v
thr r.ttV.ica) preffi'i-ion at thi I'U.f ami I-ulTi;llliu)'
country. Aok iW-x.Si'i.l t .'-i, ', . "
I ofli-n prvjKTitw Kn.''.ih Ft-iuKic I'.iHcrs a mv prac
tice, ami always with atifat,-v r.!.i!!.
F.. DALE, M. D..
t'arrolltun. Mir,
This medicine contain Irtxi ami lv. rfn'. 'A-tal!d
! Ctrrine Toou . tut ninth ut-etUd I y nil sL-kiy tvma.i.
s-oH tiv dniiT'iMs.
DR. J. 1 miOVOOOLE.
l.'siiviile, Ky.
Wiimaii' Medical Advtsrr, ci.ly So cen'.s. Ailtlrcf
a alive.
trSu!d in Austin. Tcx. Whoiea! and Retail by
Alexander & Son, and In u. II. Thumi soti.
t03 d4m
A NT.W TEXAS RUJILDy"
PUTEG HAT'S
A- m A n o o a a
DIARRHEA SPECIFIC.
WARRANTED FREE OF
IVn rooties ami Mineral.
A certain cur lor Diarrhra, Chroule Diarrhea, lvs
entery, (Bloody Flux.) Chronic Di ntery, c li.O.'ra,
Cholera Morbus, Cholera Infantum, (Summer Vm
plaiutj Cholic and Loooie.s of the Bowels,
necoromeidcd by
Dr. C. E.Warren of IIiton, Dr. It. N. Y. M.iin. lr. J.
M. Main, Col. John S. Ford. K. loni;hortv, K. lie-v,
fa. M. Kenedy and Rev. 1-allurP. V. PariMil, of
llniTisville, Tex.o.
For sale by R. F. Ce(r?e. Gslteslon. Texas, lull ,t
I.yims.and K. J. Hart & tK)., New iri.ans, and l- ;l
drurii-l. ' t
l'rrpared bv
J. L. M'TEC.NAT.
Druiit and Apil:irnrv.
juiu'll dJtn lf llrownsvilio. Tcx..s.
TOADIES, OLD AND YOUNG !
English Female Pit ti t,
F.utfllsh Feinslo Hitters,
Knrltsh Fcinslo liitters,
English Femalu Hitler,
The Wonder of the n;e.
The Wonder of the
The Woiult-r of the ase.
The Wetider of the age.
Cures all Females
Cures all Females
Cures all Females
Cures all Females
of Chronic lYnuh' Aflertloiis.
Cf linxiic Ki'iuulo Alfeetlue
. f !.h mi Ki iiuilo AtTi'tiimi.
i '. ':: ,:,c Female AlTtx-llon.
flood for old ami yi.ni:-.',
Gooil for old and otiii.-,
(Jood for old and yonne,
(iood for old and j oiiu,
(iives color ami strength,
(ilves color and streutli,
tiives color and stit'iifih
Ciives color kimI trelit:l It
Imparts beauty, strength and vivacity.
Imparts beauty, strength anit vivacity.
Impart beauty, strength and vivacity.
Impart beauty, strength and lvneity.
Any nfillcted female who desires relief shntihl not
fail topriK nn tho English temslo Hit tern and hetureit.
For sale by druggists and merchants.
Address
DIC J. P. BUOMGOOI.E.4
I'roji'r, l.uuisville, Ky.
Wotiian'a Medical Adviser, a neat little book enn
talnlng causes, svmptoms and tremnient of all or;!i
narv allec'lons tifllietinir the fem.-tlo sex, can be had by
enclosing K cents. Addnss a" above.
ttT"UoA iu Austin, Tetis, Wholesale and Rtital! by
Aluxander &, Son, aim li- n. II. Tluimpson.
ocm e.w nn
FRELIGH'S REMEDY
t t
NERVOUS HEAD ACHE, &c.4r
An internal remedy, which eradicate the causa
tt these diseases from tlia sytcm.
Carefully prerod fruia tho pre cripUoit of an
emincut pbysiuiau by '
HIND & MURPHY,-?,
. . Wholesalo Druggists,
Xo. 81 Barclay St., XcwXorU '
. . m '
Forulby A. toLDMANN, Agent.
Aiiothecaiy and Chtmist.
Congress Avenue, Gibson's Curacr, opposite Raymond
iiouse. Bcp- wly
Insurance.
TT7IDOW AND ORPHAN FUND
r21
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LIFE .NGUnAHCE CO.
Principal Of3ce at NaahTlIle, Tennessee.
OFFICER! i
E. D. FARNSWORTII, President.
C. B. HALL, Vice President.
T. L. MARSHALL, ISocreiary,
WM. C11IDSEY, Oeneml Agent.
ELIZUIt WRIGHT, Actuary.
This comnanY issues rx.lirlca nn .'1 i...
plans. All its policies are tinn-forfciiuble afier two
annual premium are pKid. Policy holder participate
In tlll tirffttM , f hn ('..mf.unw
DIVIDENDS DECLARED ANNUALLY.
No restrictions on travel or residence.
No extra charge on Femala Risks.
All it losses paid prompt?.
Security eqal to any Company.
It. A. IIIAM'OIID,
!.( A." i t. Austin, Texas.
fWAellre Agents Waited. Apilr to Stale
Agent." wly
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LACAMA
GOLD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
or
HO I! ILK, A LA II .t MA.
C. E. TIIAMFS. ..
THOMAS HKNUY, Hr,.
T. N. FoWLKIt
D. P. FA CK I. Lit,
'.ur.iiv.s7.
Xll -i'l:l.-lli!iT.
SjCi'ISKTASr.
A t-AKT.
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C. T.. Tlu;rit-s,
W. tnir.
Irny I'.rew.-r.
luo. C. hntnlM-rlaiii
Hon. Jj'nb Metier,
Joliu licn,
Hon. A bruit Mtiriii k
(". G. . '. hiir.' ,
Hon. .1 M. TLoiupson,
n. s: iv,
A. I'r k ti-r,
'. E. 1 n-uLZ,
P. V. Lnser,
A. V. liu-h,
Jno. II. tianter,
Thorns llrnry, Sr.,
A. O. Mci snts,
Thorra V. Mi.W,
Jno II. MarsUulI,
T. W. felms,
L. Ton art,
i. M. I'arkcr,
P. JI. Y-x.T.
George Ijullee,
A. J. OtIiopie.
TIedleal V. x a miner
W. IL Abiutfiu, M. D., Geo. A. Kr-tr h-!in, V It
Attortie i
M'-sti. Boylti and Ov r;i.
GEN. A. T. HAWTHORNE, Ge:r.t A.j.t.
Ttxas. OIT.rt at MArrljI, Z'tX'.
CAPITAL 8TOCK ;
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All policies pjsli In .1 merlin t..-l4
of ft.
Ar.ive. mrf--''. arrt mut-.U-A In every ;t..V. d
J)ROCLAMATI'-'
Uy the tiMritr ofllie Mr of Tcu.
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