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TnrasDAY
.JULY 1, 1875
TO
ftlHNCKIUF.KS AND I'OBRtV
Tenons writing to tub office in relation
to their papers or business, will please state
the postofhee to which the paper is, or will
ls cent, or the answer must be mailed.
They will also state whether tbey take or
ues.re to take the ukilt or w kekxt.
By bo doing, much delay and trouble will
lie avoided.
VOIt THE rOKIITlTXTIO.NAL cos-
YKMTIOX.
The district convention at Lampasas nom
inated three gentlemen who will be very
acceptable to the people of the district,
Mesers. West,' of Travis, Eansom, of (Jcorge
town, and Cook, judge of the court at Lam
pasas. 3fo resolutions were adopted, though
long strings of these were read. We pre
sume the candidates will soon shadow forth
their policy, and then we can discuss the
merits of the men.
.OVKR.OK
COKK AND
JLIO DEBT, .
THR PIB.
fiovtrnor Coke has published n very
por letter, in which he says:
Borne so-called- Dttnocratie journal, in aid
of the ellortu of the late Republican con
vention nt Hempstead, by the most absurd
misrepresentations of the amount and in
crease of the public debt of Texas, to bring
the present administration into disrepute
with the people, 1 icfcr to a statement of
the public debt made by the Comptroller,
Hon. S. II. Dardcn, on the fourth day of
March, 173, and scut by me to the Senate
on that day, in resjionse to a resolntion
from that body calling for said statement.
The statement, with special message, will
lo found on pages from o57 to 401 of the
Hcnato journul of last session. I respect
fully urge the Importance of making this
statement known in the most pnblie man
ner for information of the people.
I call special attention to these facts,
vi.. : Hint I am paying interest and sink
ing fund on the public debt contracted by
(iovernor Davis, say per annum f 370, 000;
also, frontier defense appropriation faOO,
.000, which does not belong to the cost of
administering the 'government, uud are
iliimi u? 1 1 1 r I I liii'ttf niu-A. (in i . I
. 1 1 u . v . .'in in utlLi j mi -jt .
JW tlic sAle of bonds I huvc paid the
railroad debt, and pay out of the ordinary
revenues the interest and sinking fund on
it. I pay out of the ordinary revenues for
frontier defense, wltile Davis issued war
rants and bonds for it that I have had to
ay.
Borne iime sgo we copied a statement af
fecting this debt and its management from
some Democratic paper and" commented
properly on the facts as given. To this the
Houston organ objects with absolute fcroc-
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howl. Utit seeing, that there might have
lccn an error in the statements given by our
conte'mporary the Victoria Adnoeate, we
Itelieve the Statesman announced some
days ago that a fultond fair statement and
discussion of the financial condition of Texas
would appear in these paces. But it never
irenrred to us that the question of the
Ktatksman's Democracy or Kadicalism was
involved iu the truth or error of this finan
cial statemeut. The Houston organ thiuks
differently. But nu organ Is paid to think,
and we are only amazed that a gentleman
occupying the dignified -position of his Ex
cellency should descend to such assertions
and tricks ofarraiit demagogisui. The
very truest Democrats of Texas have con
demned peculiar feutures of his State policy,
and nono have asserted their Democratic-
infidelity. Not many days ago, one Jcrc
ruiah Colbaitb Wilson, Vice President of
the United States, disapproved the South
ern policy of President Orant, and we have
been expecting Governor Coke's organs to
claim the aforesaid Jeremiah, who is weep
ing himself to death over Grant's follies
and crimes, as a high priest of De
mocracy. . Tho great, m'utake made by
littlo politicians everywhere arises from the
fact that they contemplate themselves
through their inordinate vanity. They ab
solutely deem themselves the party and
their decrees its platform, and their acts
constitute tests of all wisdom and of all
statesmanship. It is very absurd of John
Ireland to do thi. But his head is pecu
liarly shaped and uobody is amasetl by his
egotism, and he means no harm by it ; but
when tba Governor of Texas, to whom we
will do perfect justice, as he shall see, rises
in his boots and absolutely undertakes to
read a newspaper, through a prepaid
organ, put of the Democratic party because
such a newspaper criticised his Excellency's
financial skill or wisdom well, we can't
help thinking that his Excellency descends
from proper dignity and usurps the oflice
of tho commonest demagogue. A hired
organ iusj well resort to the clap trap de
vice of calling names; but when the whole
people of Tex, with a degree of nnaulm
ity perhaps never knowu before, eject
Davis from office and crown Richard Coke
with the highest honors they can bestow ;
when they make him the impersonation of
the intelligence aud dignity aud decency and
wisdom of the proud commonwealth, it is
painful to -cc such a man, in such a place.
resorting to arts as unworthy of him, ofJ
his good frvu.-o and good taste, as of the
people he represents,
THR EW YORK HERALD AMD
THK KESBO A A VOIKR.
The fltncM of tte nrgro for office Of citi-"-reaship
and his conspicuous want of pro
gressiveneM, as illustrated in his civic con--.
duct mow and when first liberated, are de
fined in a letter from Charles Nordhoff, the
famous correpoodeut of the Xew York
JrraU lie writes fr-m Alabama, and pre
dicts that:
'The negro vote in the next election will
fall off hesvilr, not throush intimidation.
but partly because the baser white men who
have lived off tho negro vole are discour
aged, and will not take so much pains to
'orcanie the black voters and sumulatu
them bv iufla-nmatory addressc and the ex
hibitioii of United States troops; partly be-
caus in manv counties the Macks nave
been for some time disgusted with tucir
Republican loadrs, lw bava - promised
luAov thiu such as the Xainou 'forty
arcs and a mule' w hich have not come to
l-; and partly because the new law which
rro utres a voter to tow m tha precinct in
which ha lives, and no longer allows him
t vote everywhere m the county, make
the election day a coinpsratively tame affair.
Formerlj-, all the negroes of the county
used to march into the county town to vote,
where they saw each other and made a grand
holiday. iJo doubt, tH, i,tbe Democrats
will do their best to p-nnaJe thoe negroes'
who would vole the liepublican ticket to
abstain from the polls, and there are legiti
mate, ways ,to do this. In Ixiuisiana, col
ored laborers on the railroads, who lose a
day's par if they go off to"Yote, often est In
1074 am not vote at alb
'He argues further that the check which
all this will set to the negroe's ambition to
noia otnee will ie an undoubted advantage
to him and to the community. In the last
Legislature there were three colored mem
bers who could neither read nor write. Ia
some counties the majority of the supervis
ors are illiterate blacks. Matter are not
nearly so bad in this respect in Alabama as
in Mississippi; but, of course, a lawmaker
or a tax-levyer, who is illiterate, is not fit
for his responsibilities. Some of the Re
publicans complained to him of a law
adopted by the last Legislature obliging
officeholders to procure the pro-ier bonds
men in the counties in which they serve;
and it was said, that in Dallas county, for
instance, there are not more than a dozen
Republicans who own prooerty and can be
come bondsmen.'''
In the whole South Mr. Norduoff did not
find the negro vote more aiekedly or thor
oughly manipulated than it was in Ala
bama. It was -systematically" compacted.
A "bolter'' was not 'merely denounced, but
held to be no better than a criminal. In
the black counties there were colored dema
gogues who had a clientage of voters whom
they controlled, and such fellows would go
about in the beginning of a canvass and
coax a man to run for oflice, in order that
they might wll him tlte vote they could
carry. These facts pertain as well to the
negro in Texas as in Alabama. That they
are simple,' unquestioned facts, none deny,
and yet timid politicians fear to act upon
the plain facts and discharge a plain duty
to whites aud blacks, requiring that both
races bo protected, in municipalities,
against the utter unfitness of the negro for
tho duties of a voter. The negro as a
voter, in towns and counties, is his own
worst enemy. He renders progress and im
provement and the acquisition of property
by tho poor ntterly impossible. r
EH EE TUVICUT AND FREEDOM OP
KX PH ESS I ON IS TEXAS. .
Tho .FVtr Co'intlnM a frch, vigorous pa
per, giving a very perfect picture of its
dwelling pluee, and of the taste and intel
ligence of Its readers. But does the Four
Co'inliet think for itself ? Or does it tamely
eoffer others to do its political or other
thinking ? If it hive this proper individu
ality aud a .hefld ot its own, can it follow
in the beaten path whTro the pig tracks of
thought are tdl in a row ? All fed at tlte
ttwmcrib may trot along in that single line
of march; but that hapless porker that
must root-hog-oi--lie and define for himself
his own pathway through the canebrakes
and fence cracks of this maternal world is
not apt to grunt when a master calls or
strike a trot because the whole herd gallops
away. But the facts are too patent to be
illustrated by so rough and just a metaphor.
Admit all that the Four Counties says of
Governor Coke, and he is at last only hu
man, and iu administering the affairs of a
great commonwealth like Texas must needs
commit veniul errors. If he were wise as
Webster, prophetic as Calhouo, and in
spired like Prentiss, he would find other
Calhouns aud other Websters, truthful
and great and just as himself, to con
demn in ' some, and approve in ' other
instances his acts and messages. Therefore
the absurdity of the conduct of the Four
Counties, which must even amaze Governor
Coke, when it denounces the Statesman
because it differs now. and then from his
Excellency. And if we thus diverge from
him in reference to questions of State pol
icy would he not despise us if we failed to
utter the conviction, and would not the
world know that he, who for such a differ
ence, about such matters, ascribed Radical
tendencies to the newspaper, either spoke
falsely or knew he was addressing fools?
The Four Covntit is too sensible and too
honest to ascribe to Radical tendencies dif
ferences of opinion affecting questions of
State policy, and it is only wrong to the ex
tent that it condemns free thinking and
freedom of expression even in reference to
the exponent and leader of a local party.
GRANT AND WILSON AND BOXNER.
Iu view of the receut peculiar letter of
President Grant, who talks and thinks of
the oflice he fills simply as an agency for
money-getting, and absolutely tells the
country that he made tlie great sacrifice for
the first term when he surrendered a life
office of vast revenues and accepted the
presidency in view of this extraordinary
letter is not this last of Vice President Wil
son very remarkable? Having been charged
with electioneeriag for the Republican
nomination for the Presidency, Mr. Wil
son, with Grant's absurd and disgraceful
letter before him, says : .
'To all this I reply that I indulged with
thousands of my countrymen tha idea that
the presidency is a lofty nnd responsible
position ; that to be elected to that high
oflico aud clothed with its vast powers.
formed by forty millions, is an honor bv the
side of which uncounted wealth must weigh
as nothing."
Republican leaders who knew not Grant's
greed for gold, knew not what they did
hen they doubled the attractiveness of the
Presidential offico by doubling its emolu
ments. Bonner's LcJjerx as devoted as
Bonner's and Graut's "one horse'' friendship
may be, is not mistaken, when it concurs
with Mr. Wilsonj and pronounces. Grant's
letter disgraceful.
rr is i run cask.
Admit that John Ireland was not a candi
date and did not desire to have a scat in the
convention, when the Statesma and other
.apcra have constantly spoken of him as a
probable memlcr of that body, and he never
once said " nay " admitting all this, and
admitting that the I.uling convention was a
proer representative body, as we do ad'
mit by accepting its action, is it not a con
damnation of Ireland, w hen his name, just
as Burleson's did, came up and was voted
down ! We care nothiuir about the matter,
He is properly condemned, whether a can
didate or not, and we think the convention
did right to administer the soothing syrap
afterwards by resolving that it approved
Ireland's official action. Let the Judge
swallow that and go to sleep and rest awhile
frcra his labors, no has figured enough
for a man of his genius, and if the press
doesn't let him alone he will yet knock the
aoaea of aspiran'S for lofty places out of
joint. Wa onlT. objeci-iudgft-Jjeland
when he doe wrong or acts unwisely. .
Wiaso.it AT l.ri.Ic.
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It was very proper of the Luling conven
tioa, ia order to beget harmony and soothe
Hon. John Ireland and bis frksda, after
his woful defeat, the coamitioB having
tnadti eight or tea balloting", to pue a gea
era! xc solution approving Ireland's decrees
as Democratic chairman. This cost aota-
ing but breath. It could do no ham. and
became a convention called la pursuance of
Ireland's orders, and then it was a proper
salve to Ireland" wounded vanity. After
kiliiDijhim oJf the support of. his friends
was still wanted. ,4 The convention acted as'
wisely in Using soft solder to heal the ern
ble gash as in inflicting it when IrcUnd was
knocked on the head.
,T o. JiiXD&iW leading Baptist of Texas,
presided over by Rev. Dr. Boyce, of South
Carolina,' were in session during the past
week in Bremond their purpose, to select
a site for a richly endowed university.
They propose to locate it within a city that
may donate tl."0,0O0 to be invested in
buildings and land. This, to use a perti
nent vulgarism, "lets Austin onr," and yet
there is no such place in the South for snch
an' institution. If onr ity fathers and rail
ways would bring hither these good men
of the Bremond convention the university
of the Baptists would have here its abiding
placr. They need only sec Austin.
AD now comes the Bastrop Adetrtimr of
the twenty-sixth instant, and says the Hon.
John Ireland positively refused the use of
his name as a candidate for the constitu
tional convention. If the distinguished
gentleman had published this fact a month
ago instead of after his friends had exhaus ted
every effort to nominate him igno
rautlyof course (?) in the Luling conven
tion, the apology and laudation after the
defeat wonld not be so ill-timed and
absurd.
- GovtRSOR Btocxdaxe was serenaded last
week in a city of Virginia and pronounced
an eloquent speech which tells of the hon
ors won by Virginians in Texan wars and
legislation. The speech delighted the staid
old gentlemen of Virginia, even as it did a
vast number of royatering collegians.
Wk are always for men of our trade, be
cause, when worthy of it, they are worthy
of any office. E. W. Baylor, or we arc
greatly mistaken in the man, should serve
Dallas in the constitutional convention.
Tex
Paeta m4 Faaclea.
They want rain somewhat inRu3k county.
Jimmy Garrison ontspells all Henderson.'
Temperance Yonng has been blowing up
Goliad. .
Freeman Walker Donglass, of Fort Bend,
is dead. , -.
Kansas farmers are shipping butter to Gal
veston. ' ;
. Major C R. Johns was in Jefferson
Thursday.
They still have spelling matches at
Gainesville.
Wheat is worth eighty cents a bushel in
Flill county.
Fifteen Kickapoos arc stealing horses
about Hondo.
The cotton worm has appeared in the
Brazos bottom.'
The narrow gauge is extended seven
miles from Houston.
Foundrymen are making excellent car
wheels in Houston. '
The Waco flouring mills are doing a mag
nificent business. '
The Willis Observer will suspend publica
tion until September.
People in Henderson are crazed by specu
lations in stone quarries.
Rer. W. O. King, of Houston, died last
Tuesday in Georgetown.
The Rural Texan is winning, as it de
serves, great popularity.
The mercury stood 92 at 3 p. m., in
Waco, on the twenty-fifth.
The female compositor in the Texas Lead
er office makes 20 per week.
They will have a great fair, the Dijatch
says, next October in Lampasas.
The artificial fishpond at Henderson
furnishes vast numbers of perch.
The Fourth of July dinner in Cooke
county will feed 10,000 people.
Williamson county, like Travis, wants
rain, and Austin is always thirsty.
The James and Yountter boys are said to
be lurking about Paris, in this State.
The Brenham Banner thinks it will make
a bale per acre if it don't have worms.
The Granbury ' TidetU weeps over the
grave of a good man, J. H. Goodlitt.
Rev. W. P. Petty is preaching in Gaines
ville on the conservatism of Christianity.
Persons leaving the city should order the
Statesman to their address for the summer.
The Rusk Ofoerter grins because plenty
smiles. The Observer itself never "wtW(?).
There are twenty -one indictments for
cattle stealing against one Nelson at Cor
pus. '
Tne Gonzales Inquirer . aays that crops
well cultivated do not suffer for want of
rain. ,.
The number of visitors at Lampasas is
greater than at the same date in any former
year. .
Coll Dick Westcott, the oldest printer in
Texas, sets a column daily on the fascinat
ing.
Tho population of Henderson, with all
the pretty girls, goes blackberrying each
afternoon.
Bee county is said to twtrm with sheep,
which may account for the sheepish ness of
the Vy ike.
In tha case of Schman v. Moody Meahell
& Co., at Kaufman, the verdict for plaiutiff
was f is, ow.
Prisoners abound at Lampasas, and the
sheriff must surrender to them the front
room of the jail
Andrew J. Bell "Jack Bell" a success
ful lawyer for forty years, of Austin county,
aieu last weeK.
Rev. A. E. Clemmons addresses the stu
dents of Henderson College on the six
tcenth proximo.
Mr. ' J. N. Bartholow, an experienced
newspaper man, is alxwt to start ano Jier
paper in Hal las.
A peor girl ten or twelve years of age,
can get a pood home in Granbury by writ
ing to the y uUite.
A poem by Miss Kettie . Power Houston,
entitled "Nature's Child," graces the pages
of isrritner lor July.
The HiUaboro Kxjtotitor thinks that no
country can surpass that in its vicinity in the
production of beets.
President Carlton,' of the Bonham Col
lege, U winning deserved faaae a aa edu
cator of young men. .
' The colored people celebrated emancipa
tion, day with infinite good humor and a
good dinner at aasota.
The Saa Antonio dram- tic club restricts
member to a tin-cup-ful and meets ia the
m k . r II -
ion oi ine sierata omcc.
The Herald insists that Dallas must have
an elevator. We thought the masses of the
place generally ayA e&ougn.
0 A section of the vertebra of some gigantic
animal was found near Brenham in a rail
way eat aboat ftftcea feet deep.
The Bastrop Adeertiter publiaaea aa inter-
eating serial, entitled The Life and Ad
ventures oi Aato&ie XL. unard.1'
, Mr. D, D. Locke, of Sea Francisco, ia ia
Denisoa wita the ticket that drew $35,000
He holds beside thirteen bUaka.
Uinca Clark and M. Kenedy subscribed
ktu,000 to the capital stock of the Corpus
Ccrisu and LareOo Harrow uauge.
L jIofma U ked to put another steamer
oa the line from Galveatoa to Corpus.
Ice
for jalepe doat last between tnpe.
. A correspondent of the Stoei Reporter
says the crops'" of corn, wheat and carton
about Conicana are unprecedented.
Land Is said to- be offered at very low
prices on the Colorado, about Coiumbn?. It
is the richest country in the world.
L. B. Smith, the young ranger killed in
the late fight with cattle thieves, was buried '
with military honors in Brownsville.
The railroad is finished about twelve
miles beyond the San Marcos and will reach
Kingsbury on the fifteenth proximo.
Hon. G. A. Grow is at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New Yoik. He aaid he was going
to the Black Hills when he left here.
Hard castle, late of the Houston Age, is
cultivating quietude and potatoes at Bren
ham.. He ships the latter to St. Louis.
Rev. A. E. Clemmons, of Marshall, has
been stirring up sinners mightily ia Jeffer
son. The Jimfleeute looks better for it.
The first cotton bloom in Sulphur Springs
blossomed on the tenth. The Gazette man
wore it, we are told, in his shirt bosom.
The horse disease still alarms Houston
people, and ravages Houston stables.
Baer's stable lost 2550 worth of horses.
The San Antonio Herald man thinks the
police should be uniformed. It sets off the
landscape of a sunny street corner so much.
The calaboose at Tyler was destroyed
Wednesday by fire. The Reporter wasn't
banned. . It was out at the tune, we reckon.
Houston is described by newspaper cor
respondents as wretchedly dull. How could
it be otherwise till the Age was resuscitated?
There is a little girl, Lula Bellstedt, at
Sulphur Springs whose musical genius is
said to be as marvellous as that of Blind
Tom.
Juan Flores, the Mexican who killed Mr.
and Mrs. Swift, a year ago, was hanged at
Kefugio. the leierraih. tells, on the twenty
fifth. A Dallas lawyer paid (o0 for his con
tempt of the court. It was the contempt
and not the court or lawyer that was pro
found. A John Chinaman is wanted in Hender
son to wash the dirty linen of the Time.
There is need lor fifty about the Telegraph
office.
The Sherman Patriot says the wheat crop
of Grayson county will be from 800,000 to
800,000 bushels, the largest in quantity ever
raised.
The Marshall police have arrested Jim
Mooring and others, who have been supply
ing that town with stolen beef for a year
or more.
The latest sensation in Dallas courts is a
suit involving the hoo-dooing of "another
fellow's wife." The parties are Higgins
and Austin.
Tho Daily Keening Age, of Houston, is
sold at fifty cents per month. That is bard
on publishers, and Houston should have its
head broken.
The Rio Grande iMmoerat pays an elo
quent tribute to the personal worth and
. . ,s ... . . i ii-
virtues oi an oia citizen just aeceascu, m.
D. Thomas.
The Montague 2Vcw tells of a head of
wheat seven inches long. , The head of the
Newt may be even longer, but what's in it?
I here s the ruo.
A neero horse thief, resisting legal arrest,
was shot in the thigh, and naturally died of
lockjaw, near Lock hart, even as the News
will peg out.
The excellent editor of the Frie l'resse
has returned from Germany, and they who
would hear from Faderland should order
the Frie Pree.
The Panola WatcJtman congratulates sheriff
Ross, of its county, on his acquisition of a
charming wife in the person of Miss Laura
Martin, of Austin.
The Brenham Banner says the " States
man keeps . buzzing about John Ireland's
heels." .Even then ft may oe a mue away
from John Ireland.
The Granbury YUlette is a charming pa-
v. a ISr-'ll f
rer. it is iresn ana ciean ana run oi news
and tells everything about Granbury nnd
the country thereabouts.
The Prof. Joss, the great schoolmaster
of Rusk, is not the individual worshipped
by John Chinaman, though his virtues are
revered by the uoserter.
A male and female calf, having also six
leg9, toddles about, to the great delight of
the local editor of the Hempstead Memn-
ger. Barnum wants it.
The spiritualists are in ecstacies. Tbey
said that Col. Anthony, of Leavenworth,
wouldn't die, and sure enough he still lives
and is almost well.
Applicants for places in stores in Houston
and Galveston are numberless. But they
don't crowd the farmers and mowers of
wheat and oat fields.
Hutchins, of the St. Louis Timet, is still
in hot water. The sheriff is locum tenens
of the Times, and Gath is not Goliah
enough to hold possession.
Preparations for working silver mines on
a largo scale are progressing near Fort Ma
son. The Lost creek district is rich in sil
ver, plumbago, copper and lead.
The insanity of Mr. - Leatberwood, who
committed suicide at San Marcos, cannot
be accounted for. It did not have origin
in the appearance of the Buy Bee.
The Baptist educational convention is in
session at Bremond. We have often urged
Austin to send representatives thither. If
done we are not advised of the fact.
The Texas University, located at George
town, is in a flonrishiner condition. The
institution is under the management of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
One hundred and forty-one newspapers
are printed in Texas. A sickly member of
the family, however, dies every lew days.
and a sprightly youngster is as oiten oorn
Ice is sold in Sherman at one and one
and a half and two cents per pound. Why
are two and a half cents demanded in Aus
tin, and five cents when bought at the shops?
Sarah Cornelia Bo wen and George H.
Neonan were married Wednesday in San
Antonio, and the whole population did
honor to the iersonal virtues of the happy
pair. , :
Rockport boys amuse themselves moonlit
nights gigging flounders. That accounts
for the moral flatness of Rockport and for
th traTul4 MUUatilMiKl&inirlilM-iii tb
shade.
The Bossier Banner man, an old Confed
crate soldier, says, while lauding the old
Roman virtues of Braxton Bragg, "Here's
to you, old fellow, , as long we nave a
akkeL" .
The judge of the court pronounced an
tnlncrinm unon Sheriff Gibbs whet be re-
signed. But who ever nearu oi a suenn
resigning ! We never knew one-whs would
even die. -
The mighty atone dam that accumulates
water for the mills at Seguin is said to be
the work of nature, but mea have aud that
it was lifted up by the primeval lntuoitanu
of the country. .
The Bordensville ' hasbery condmses ia
cans annually 1000 beeves, and shirs
gentium fnorttwyM nave Iron mart rnmnU.
AU of which, however true, Is maiatf Dutch
to Bordensville.
. And bow the inquiry is made ry what
right the International Railway Cxnpany
transfers its offices to Palestine, k seems
that the company's charter compels t to re
main in Houston. .
J. C. McGrew, who escaped Iron) jail,
where be was confined for the Murder of
Robeit Stewart, at Maaoa, last Nwveraber,
baa been recaptured, aad ia now n jai at
Fredericksburg.
The Vldette estimates the wheat croj of
Hood county at 200,000 bushels, am it
waats a lager beer mill started there, "be
oat crop is so pah. The Yidrtte has bea
feeling them its etL
Sharks axe coming up the Houston caal
to see tie prospect of finisidng it. Tfcy
then propose to swallow the town. The
I are supposed to be the saws fellows wa
levy taxes dowa there. .
Governor Dick Hubbard is going to deliver
a literary speech tr the people of Sulphur
Springs on the twenty first proiino. Other
speeches will be made by J.-hn C Bu
chanan and J, M. Layne.-.
The Grand Council of United Triends ot
Temperance will meet at Bryan, Wednes
day, July 7, at 10 a. m. The International
and Texas Central Railroads will pass del
egates at reduced rates. -
J. C. Montgomery has quietly withdrawn
from the Denisnn Creptet a wiser, if not a
richer, man. It's no use telling what we
do know, that people who don t know bad
better keep out of newspaper.
Fly trsps of Bistrop are successful. Ad-
That of the Ahertirr man plavs Cain
with a peck of potatoes and npwards every
dayk and pork and bean in proportion.
There is a marrelous crop of watermel
ons produced about Brenham. The Bonner
man says they are more numerous than the
lies sworn to in the Beecher cae : but not
more watery than the eves of the Binner.
The Brenham Rmner thinks seventy dol
lars jr diein, "the income of the Auttin
street cars, enough to keep a fir?t class gen
tleman in whisky." Grant, we are told,
doesn't spend five dollars jhr dirm in this
wav.
The district judge at Groesbeck denounces
the cowardice and murderousness of those
who carry concealed weapons, in unmeas
ured terms, and many indictments were ex
pected to follow the Judge's pronuncia
mento. A nice young man named C. H. Whitney
wrote the firm name of C. H. Merritt & Co.,
of San Antonio, across the back of a draft
on a fet. Louis bouse and sold it. The pur
chasers, too, were sadly sold, and Whitney
non ext.
A saloon-keeper named Miller shot and
severely wounded a gentleman named John
U. I arris, at Tiavasota, last i rid ay. The
two spent most of the day shooting at one
another. It made the town pleasant and
lively .
A letter-writer in a St. Louis paper says
Denison is either barren of its incipient
glory, or else was ever a detestable rendez
vous for one-horse hotel keepers and flushed
pocket cowbovs. And now listen for the
News.
The great hotel of Dallas the Lamar
House is finished and at the grand "open
ing" space was found for so much wine
that tne lleruhl man couldn't "shut up.
He kept on telling about it through a whole
column.
Woods, thirty-two years old, assassinated.
while in bed, by John Crockett near Go
liad, was asleep in bed when shot through
the neck. Woods is a native of Arkansas,
has leen six years in Texa and wa much
esteemed.
The "Shaky Notes"' news items of the
queer Jim)lecvtc often get their legs tangled
and a fellow can t tell how tbey will wind
out. Tbey run through all the scales of the
gamut from B flat to A-cute. It is often
devilish "sharp."
The Burnet Bulletin makes a good stag
ger at it. The Texas inside looks almost
as well as the C hicago outside. Ibis sort
of rivalry will do; and the printers of Bur
net and proof-reader and pressman do work
creditable to Texas.
The Mexia Ledger complains that officers
of temperance societies draw heavy salaries.
For all that it is cheaper than whisky,
Bro. Young's eloquence and example and
good looks and bright, cheery face -are
cheap at any price.
The locum tenens of the Burnet Bulletin
calls himself a pony. " Did ye not hear it?"'
Oh ! wad some ixmer the pi f tic gle up.
To eee ourgels ? itliern see U8 i
And would they call it a jtonyf Young as
he claims to be, his (y tears protrude promi
nently and powerfully.
The stairs leading to the second story of
the building where the Georgetown Demo
crat is published gave way while the com
positors were leaving and three men were
precipitated to the lower lloor and badly
stunned, though no one was killed.
We are going to have some handsome,
exceedingly handsome, fellows in the con
stitutional convention. Iu any event, the
Dallas Commercial says that "Judge Ferris
is like Ciesar swife," and if there wasagood
thing in Home we know Ctesar had it.
Col. A. M. Hobby, of Galveston, has an
other very interesting letter published in
the Nhrs of the twenty-second instant. It
is full of interesting details of the beauty
and resources of the frontier counties
through which he is traveling on horseback
San Antonio was founddd the same year
with Philadelphia, and for many years was
the greater town of the two. But they
didn t have the Jierala in those early times.
It was the agonies of its parturition that
begat the collapse of the old Texan town.
Rev. Mr. Parks has been poking about
among the short ribs of vile sinners about
(iroesbeck, and much good has resulted
He ia one of the most effective preachers
in lexas, and this accounts for the piety of
the Mexia Ledger, to which he habitually
ministers. . .
Eighty-one sensible and tasteful people
subscribed for the Vidcttc, agreeing to pay
in wheat. They are now paying up and
the Vidette has gone to grinding, and it is
perfectly blest, and its little editorials are
vivacious and sparkling and lively to a won-
aeriui degree.
Since it was known that the Fort Worth
Standard is edited by a woman, all the fel
lows are a-courting it and quoting it ant
saying soft things about it. The Leader
wants to know whether she is going to line
the Press Association and how she stands
on Temperance. .
The police are refunding to taxpayers the
ninety dollars per month they get for sweat
ing over nothing in Houston by killing
worthless dogs. The taxpayers are well
pleased. It is the first evidence they have
ever had that the investment in police was
not a bad egg.
The Goliad Guard is eloquent, and fierce
are its invectives against the assassin John
Crockett. Mrs. Crockett, charged as an
accessory to the murder of C. W. Woods,
has been discharged. There was no testi
mony. Ten thousand dollars is offered for
the capture of Crockett.
Sherman ia described by a modern trav
eler as a solid-looking town of brick and
mortar in the midst of a rich and populous
and progressive country, inhabited mainly
fey rmPirfs rrom'ine JNorthweat and from
Tennessee and Kentucky. They are said
to be the best farmers in Texas.
DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca and Colorado
are among the richest counties of Texas.
In Lavaca land is worth from f3 to f8.
Timber is scarce,- but the. best water
abounds, pecan, elm, live oak and post oak
flourish, and a small stream of living whis
ky sparkles in every country town.
They hsve a nice little erim, eon. Beecher
TUton like case in the courts at Dallas,' and
the bland town is in an exceedingly blissful
condition. The Commercial, with that rare
modesty evei distinguishing the admirable
exponent of Dallas taste and modesty,
hardly dares to tell the half it knows.
They have good cooks at Will's Point.
The barbecue last week at that place is
pronounced faultless by the Kaufman Star.
The ar is of the "milky wsy,n we
reckon. It was nearly busted, anyhow, by
batter milk." But, for fear of offending
the Wills people, we won't make too fine a
point of it. '
Luther F. Redner, of Fannin county, not
only delivered the valedictory to the grad
uating class at tbe late commencement at
Roanoke College, but won the alumni medal
aad those awarded for supreme excellence
in Greek and mathematics. Gov. Stock
dale's address is extravagantly lauded by
the Virginia papers.
It was Samuel Weller who said that
widows were worse than mothers-in-law
more to be dreaded. One of these sear
Mansfield captured the affections of one
Elgin Howe, late of Missouri. She once
agreed, and then refused to wed tbe peor
boy. He drew a pistol, and, ia her pres
ence, blew his brains out.
If tbe Texas Press Association have its
faults they have no right to dama them
who could but won't remedy them. ' Pub
lic taste and the decency and influence and
respectability of the press of Texas vould
be lnnaiteiy promotea oy an approvea as
sociation of the newspaper men of Texas.
It is excellent as far as it goes.
Sixty bushel per acre and seventy-five
cents per bushel tells of the profits of oat
culture about San Antonio. In fact, this
Iniurianee 4 niiiui vAimtafi the
rye-oat-ous life of the Jlrrall man. His
wry faces made at the recorder should not,
however, be aseriled to his addicted ness to
Old Rye.
The Dallas ILrahl says sagely, and with
astonishing nairrtf, that angels' visits are
few and far between. They don t have
much business about Dallas anvhow, we
reckon. Fallen angels might tumble down
there like Vulcan upon Lemnoa, who broke
his leg; but we don t see how the other sort
would ever be drawn to the place.
Sam Smith, of Rusk, was killed by a
tree falling on him while he was plowing.
Diogenes was killed bv an eaice which i
dropped a terrapin on old Di's head, think
ing it a big, flat, bald stone. It was the
stone, instead of the terrapin, that was
cracked, but 'that lantern which Diogenes
toted around by day, hunting for an honest
man, has never gone out.
The Dallas authorities are going to sup
press the hooting, shouting rabble of hotel
drummers who frighten people from the de
pot there as tney uo m Austin. e sup
pose it is the same fellows here. The Her
ald describes them just as we see them when
a train comes. The crazy man consigned
to the dungeon lust week owe his insanity
to tbe howling devils.
Judge Thurmond, of Dallas, saved a
boy's life by imminent danger to his own.
The boy was in front of and was hatched
away from a raging locomotive. Our
judge does nobler' deeds every day.
Ue saves from three to four people by
snatching them from the Travis county
jail and transmitting them to AVard, Dewey
&Co.
The doctors in Denison arc putting in
bids for the pauper practice. Down here
doctors have great competition, too, in get
ting rid of their stock of charity. They
alt ruth for the charity fellows, and just
love to spend sleepless nights and learned
Latin prescriptions on the poor devils who
wouldn't pay if they could. Denison doc
tors are not at all singular in this sublimated
goodness.
A pretty stieaui of clear, pure water runs
at the base of the hill on which, nine miles
west of Columbus, Gail Borden resides.
The village bard by is called Bordensvilln.
In a secluded vallev is the condensed hash
aud beef factory, and this man Borden was
the inventor of condensed milk. In this
he is lucky. If it had been hash house
skimmed milk he would have been hanged.
Policemen of San Antonio spend sultry
summer afternoons lounging lazily on the
sunny side of shaded streets, shucking off
their shoes and counting fleas that nit flip
pantly among their toes and beneath their
trowsers, while odious odoriferous curs
breed them by the peck, and diffuse them
everywhere. Iu another year people of
Texas tow us won t know whet tier to kill
the dogs or police.
' The Gonzales Inquirer is delighted with
the wonders of creation while contemplat
ing the luck ot a chicken that was shelled
out in Gonzales with five toes, instead of
four, on each foot. We sympathize in the
pleasure evinced by our excellent neigh
bor and modestly suggest that this chicken
be employed, instead of tbe present lncum
bent, . to do the scratching on the local
pages of tbe Inquirer.
Seguin is now spoken of in most dolorous
accents by weary travelers who look out on
it in melancholy and leave it with a sigh.
It is in the struggles of slow dissolution.
But the country about Seguin is as charm
ing as tbe town is sombre and somnolent.
The Guadalupe, in which Seguin contem
plates its melancholy face, is said to be,
next after the Ban Marcos, the most beauti
ful stream in Texas.
- The Kaufman lottery distributed prizes as
follows last Thursday, the list including
alt sums of S100 and above: 25,104, 417,
795, 343,900, 386,032, 111,254, 235,004,
234,511, 193,751, 24,234 and 384,178,
drew $100 each; 465,070 and 237,302 drew
$500 each; 233,795 drew 1000; 74,566
drew $2000; 70,795 drew $3000; 194,037
drew $4000; 25,392 drew $5000; S82,560
drew $10,000 ; 279,586 drew 15,000, and
117,494 drew $25,000.
More than ten eventful years have passed
since the Southern army west of the Mis
sissippi river surrendered or was disbanded,
and yet no effort has been made to perpet
uate the history of the part Texas took in
our great civil war. Can it be that the sol
diers themselves are indifferent on the sub
ject, or has it ever- occurred to them
that in the ages' that are to come, pos
terity is in a fair "way to know nothing of
the war history of Texas.
They have a mocking bird with a large
family in a Dallas shade tree. This bird
has an unutterable aversion we say unut
terable because if otherwise the bird would
not "sing it out" to dogs. It never suffers
a dog to pass that it does not assail the
brute, ana cowardly curs have already
learned to avoid the home of the brave
chorister of Dallas groves. Our mayor
may be induced to hire that bird. She
would be worth eighty dollars per month,
the cost of a policemau, to Austin, and the
two city governments should at once inau
gurate a correspondence on the subject.
The Denison Xetet tells of a man who
d d his stupid old mare, and hoped the
lightning might strike her. ' The prayer or
imprccai ion was answered a few days after,
and a lightning shaft shivered her timbers.
She was killed. - As an instance of answer
to prayer it is not so good as the disap
pearance of grasshoppers in Missouri, where
tbe pious Governor threatened to have a
general prayer meeting by proclamation,
and the grasshoppers all left at once for
Omaha. It is not a very bard joke on
Providence but it was devilish rough on the
old mare. . i - . .: .
A first-rate fiddler went to Lock hart and
sawed cat-gut around the place to the infi
nite delight of people who had never heard
anything sweeter than the harshly discord
ant Xoet Kcho, one of Johnny's organ. Of
course the people were in ecstacies. A
school for fiddlers was started, Sisson could
not supply the demand for cremonas and
tbe little negroes about Lockhart have
nearly all danced their legs off. But ooe
morninsr - Lockhart" woke op t find the
great tiddler gone. The everlasting fuss in
town and sawing and see-sawing" in and
out ot ''Sisson," in stores and parlors and
dining rooms, and in offices'and back alleys,
had maddened the master of the school of
fine arts. He fled the demonisc place.
Every fellow is getting very tired of every
other fellow's fiddle, and if the everlasting
fuss isn't stopped, there will be some lively
fights in Lockhart. Onr correspondent
adds, "the torn cats bsve all left the plac?."
Texas Pellttre.
Judge Cook won't run, and the llou-ton
papers can have peace.
R. II. Phelps, a very proper man, will be
the next district attorney in Fayette county.
The freed men of Houston celebrated
emancipation day quietly and pleasantly snd
sensiDiy.
Fayette county recommends Lytt Moore
and G. W. Robinson for the constitutional
convention. -
CoL Geerge W. Joaes wilt probably be a
candidate for tbe constitutional convention
at Bastrop.
Joel . W, Robinson and L. W. Moore are
tbe candidates foe the tioastUutioaal con
vention in LaGnage. . . , ,
Capt. William Neal I Unity is announced
by the Panola Watehman aa a candidate for
the constitutional convention.
- The Territorial Democratic convention of
New Mexico sits ia Santa Fe on tbe twenty
sixth inst. It will nominate a delegate to
Congress.
The 1ul(tu says: "Mr. Veale, the chair
man of tha executive committee, is opposed
to ceUisf a district convention, aad will
not do it. So mote it be."
E. P. H11L Dr. Ash bell Smith and Dong-
las Campbell, of Montrmery, were nom
inated to represent the Houston district in
the constitutional convention.
t The Telegrapk't seal ia defcuse of Gov
ernor Coke, -when he need no defense '
and has not been assailed, shows the aculi
moral effect of the public printing job, -
The Delta Rseonf is utterly opposed trv
tbe convocation of Democratic rings "and"
party managers, and' would have a Constr-"
tution made by statesmen snd not by parti
sans. : i . ,-,-'( -t.. ,. tj;j.-4
One Wright, clamorous tor a seat in the
constitutional convention, wants a district
attorney and a judge for each county. This
weuld give 970 soft place at once to law
yers. ' ' ' . .-
The Netrt .EViUcoromend in the Wronjrcst
terms to the voters of Its district th nomi.-l
nees of the Lulinc convention-v Theyd
serve it, snd the Xcirt Vi is sometimes an
admirable paper. , v . .. .
Since Ireland never did accept. 'anything
in sitht, or in reach, and never did warn an
oflice, the organ would justified iii y-
mg he would not nave taken th rri n il
it had been offered at Luling. '
The Ac Fa-I" tenderly alludes to ns as a
" conceited ass." The .Vr is honest
about it. It thinks it, and we can't com
plain. We have kicked it alont terrifi
cally even like unto a conceited mule. '
The 'Vitrwirm" of Montague county have
nominated Capt. P. S. Hsgy for the Legis
lature. Won't this straight intervention ef
the ' farmers" arouse the ire of the politi
cians J We quote from the Montague- San.
Congressman Culberson advocated .the
nomination of W. L. Crawford in prefer
ence to his own brother, in the convention
in Marion county. Crawford is a friend of
Culberson aud said to tv a msiT of excel
lent ability. . . ) . '
The Age thinks Gnstave Cook is too gen
erally Mueetl "to be tbe subject of a gross
personal attack." May uot the good wo
meu of Houston co-operating with tho fat
old dame of the Tthgrnph conspire to keep
Gustave in Houston. .
Somebody wants a venerable recorder of
Houston made a member of the constitu
tional convention. The suggestion is a good
one. There may be a few "drunks and
disorderlies" even in that illustrious body,
and a non eoiupus threatens ns from I Hi
Morse's district. . . , :i - r - -
Hon. John Alexander, of Burleson, 1C
II. Flannikin, of Lee, and Capt. James S.
Lauderdale, of Washington, have.; been
nominated as candidates for the constitu
tional couvention from the district com
posed of the counties of Washington, Lee
and Burleson. . ,- . : .! -
Dallas has six candidates in its district for
the constitutional convention, snd more are
brewing. John Hy. Brown, John C. Mo
Coy, John W. Lane, John W, Ferris and
John H. Cochran. They are alt Johnnys,
which is curious, and the. more if called
Jack s for short. ; ,a v. n .-,
Rather than sell public-school lands, let
them bo leased for the tax the State and
county would impose, ior a term of years,
and then their retention by the county sure
ly costs nothing, and withholding these
lands from market gives greater valne to
the land of others who wish to sell.1 "' '
Governor Dickson, a gentleman of excel
lent ability, is a candidate' for the conven
tion in the Navasota district, and since there
is a vacancy on the ticket it . is " proposed
that the committee spare the country the
election of an unworthy delegate, which
may be assured if a straight nomination be
made. ... . j ;
We copied a statement of the condition
of the State Treasury from the .Victoria
Adtorate, giving it credit. Upon this state
ment we made legitimate comments, The
Houston Telegraph is therefore mistaken.
The Advocate is not- a Radical organ and its
name was given by us at' the). time the ar-
ticle criticized was written. . , ,: . , .j ;
The Bremond Sentinel and Central Texan
condemn the action of the Ireland conven
tion at Fleam e. The Sentinel says "other
papers in tbe district are pursuing the same
course, and some of the counties hsve failed ,
to hold conventions, while one or two have
voted the convention down, refusing to
have anything to do with it." - -
E. W. Baylor talks like a man of sense
and self-respect. When asked to become a
candidate for the constitutional convention
he says it is an office that no man should
seek ; but that no man has the right to re
fuse to serve if the people thiuk him worthy
and qualified. Such ' are the men the peo
ple should vote for, for Such an office.
The Sulphur Springs Gazette has onr earn
est sympathies; but the people are right
and it is wrong. It says: " We are glad to
know that our earnest endeavors to bring
about a nominating convention have found
favor somewhere. The Democracy of Black
Jack Grove precinct are determined to or
ganize for the election, and will agree upon
the men that they think best suited to
serve us." . . ,
W. L. Campbell has withdrawn from the
contest for tbe constitutional convention in
the Navasdta district, and tbe Democratic
committee of the district met Satnrday last
to supply bis place. Dr. Dickson is already
a candidate, and of faultless fame and rare
ability, but the rule is that he must bow be
fore the Joss called Ireland or be ruled off.
We hope this rule in this case was violated
and that the Doctor was nominated. . i
Hon. D. C. Dickson made a speech last
week at Navasota, declaring himself a can
didate for the constitutional convention.
Since his candidature may not be approved
by the Seguin agency established over tbe
people vt Dr. Dickson's district, another
Democrat may be put in tbe field and the
Doctor slaughtered, and aa ignorant Radi
cal elected by the negroes; and yet parti-
sanguip iu bucii contests ia cnnnning.'
The convention to select delegates to
represent the Thirtieth Senatorial District
in the constitutional convention met at Gee
troville on the twentieth ot Jane. - Hon.
Wm. 1L Russell, Judge Chas. IL Howard and
Col. Santos Benivedes were the unanimous
choice of the convention upon Lhe-firatballot.
The convention also . Atmiinatedi oaodj.
dates for tbe Legislature.. TJieae were Hon
Wm. 11. Russell Tor the Senate,, aad Theoi
dore Terry of Maverick, James Paul of
Medina, and A. R. Aguirre of Cameron,
for the House. Howard and Russell will
both make excellent members of the con
stitutional convention. Santos Benivedes
is a Mexican, thoroughly -identified with
tbe Interests and welfare of Texas, and is
the right man in the right place. The
Mexican element has heretofore been repre
sented by Americans, but when such tried
men as Benivedes can be found, we think
it should be otherwise. i
John Ireland, in b's ; late speech . at
Seguin, tries to curry favor with the pa
pers and people he denounced and read ont
of tbe Democratic party, by ssyiog that bis
late bull of excommunication was directed
against only the Btatesmajc, the Galves
ton Sets and tbe San Antonio Herald. ' It
is proper that he should begin U descend
when he has been so respectfully shelved
by tbe people of bis own county snd dis
trict. His denunciations directed against
all who dared differ from him, were widely
published and commented upon, ' and ail
understand where he placed himself. New
be comes forward in bis speech, pub
lished ia the Gaadalnpe Time, aad ssys
that wbea be penned this message, be -"had
bat three in bis mind." When a man, whe
bas stood where Ireland baa, humiliates
himself by such aa attempt at escape
from popular indignation, the Statesman
will be magnanimous enough to allow
him the abetter be has fled to. e-i
We have been favored with "an explana
tion of the charges brought against, tbe
chairman of tbe Thirtieth Senatorial Dis
trict Executive Committee, lately made ia
tbe Democrat, of Brownsville, aad tivea to
tbe public as aa item of political news ia
tbe Btatbkmax. The Democrat', chvrget
Judge Russell with reorgmaiuog county
committees for the purpose of caxrving out
a special programme of Lis owe. The real
facts are, that he only appointed committee
men for the three new counties of Presidio,
Pecos and Tom Green. This was his duty
as tbe chairman of tba district. Ja Pre
sidio be appointed Wm. Lempert, ia Pecos
Major J. M. Frszier, aad ia Tom Greea
county F. C. Tsy lor. The aew counties aad
K Paso all instructed for Judge II iwsrd as
their candidate for. tho Getiiuii'l con
vention. Differences existed iu El IVt
county, which resulted iu the withdrawal
of the friends Of LuUis Cardie. .Ca dia. we
understand, came down to tho Cairv.lie
contention as the delegato uf tli disaf
fected, but did not lay Ins elatm for repre
sentation before that bodv. Had hv Had
the. requisite majority in tl Js it looks
reasonable that he would Tiv? Iwu" able to
eootrtd'the actio Tof tbe cxiutT-t-uuven-toons.
J That there may be no misapprehension of
facts affecting the sad luck of Judr Ire
land, we give the proceedings of the con
vention that failed to nominate Itim. His
friend, it seems, said he wasn't a candidate,
ao.l KQothef ke(3is sBHmc.Jfore tho con
vention. - '
The two-third rule was finally adopted,
and the chairman announced that nomina
tion wcro in order. Amotion to adjourn
by Jennings; .J Celd well, ?ra voted down.
Col. Jtkoiu then placed in nomination
Ld. Burleson, c-r Hays. ' Storcv nominated
Hayues, of Caldwell. Jcnning, of Cald
well, nominated Hon. John Ireland, of
Guadalupe. I.evus of Gonr.ales, nominated
Cook,- .f "Goniales." The chairman an
nounced that four gentlemen had been
placed iu , nomination, and aked for
Heconds to" their nomination, which were
given. Capt. Rust stated to the convention
Judge , Ireland's position, . and asked Jen
nings to withdraw the 'nomination of that
gentleman. Greenwood, of Caldwell, wai
placed in nomination by Col. Smith, of
Guadalupe, who indulged in some pleas
antries at the expect ef - members, but
greatly tr the amusement tf the conven
tion. Tho Caldwell delegation, having retired
from the halt to deliberate, were called to
their seats that the convention might re
sume its work. Capt. Rusk again asked
Jennings to withdraw Judge lrclaud's
name, which Jenulngs declined to do.
Capt. Rust thcn in behalf of the Guada
lupe delegation, withdrew the name of the
Hon. John Ireland. Cox, of Gonzales,
insisted that Judge Ireland's name should
not be, withdrawn, Kyle moved to vote
tica toe,' which was' adopted, aud the con
vention proceeded to ballot. On the second
ballot Kurlesrar andj Cooki each received
thirty-three and a half votes. Necessary to
a choice twenty-four and two-thirds. The
gentlemen were declared taoeiiuntedv ' Then
the Caldwell delegation asked and was
granted permission to retire for consulta
tion. Upon their return, Stagner addressed
the . convention in behalf of Ilaynes, and
was rep uea to by smith, of Uuadalupe, in
advocacy of tbe claims o( Judgs Ireland.
Storey then rose to refute the charge that
was made against the Caldwell delegation,
that they were disjuiscd to "go back ou"
Haynes, snd declared that they would voto
first, last and all tbe time for the choice of
their county. Storey was replied to by
Douglass, Rust and Cocwsy.. .
The balloting was proceeded with, nnd
the vote divided between Ireland, Green
wood and Haynes, the latter ruuning ui on
the eighth ballot to twenty-one votes. A
member then moved that Hayncs's nomina
tion be made by acclamation, which was
done amid th cheers of the convention.
Gen. McCullough (a friend of Judge Ire
land, Of Guadalupe,) offered the following,
which was adopted:
Jtemdved, That we approve and endorse
tbe action of the State Executive Commit
tee ia recommending the nomination of
party candidates by the Democratic party
for the' State constitutional convention.
,. Paris stated it to be his intention to call
a nominating convention at the proper time
to nominate candidates for the Legislature.
Tiik Treasury Department has issued now
regulations concerning tho exauiiuation of
baggage of passengers arriving in thel'uittd
States from, foreign ports., ,,Eitch passenger
will Ge required to make a sworn statement
of the number of his packages containing
naggage; wuetner tucie is in such baggage
any wearing apparel that has not been in
use, and whether any articles are intended
for the use of any other person. Also,
whether it contaius any piece goitda, laces.
loweiry or other like cllects. aud whether
any dutiable articles are concealed upoulhe
person. Any misrepresentation o lucts will
subject the bsggage to'forfeltuie. '
NewAayertiseiiieuts.
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Mrs. J, COCHRAN, Proprletreaa,
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pnblK franerall tnat , tua opeuad the aatn-e oami-d
houe ana and It ua in good -ivle. 1 hu tabl.i w.ll c
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ann tnree tbolO)rrlh of myself. The finder ill bt
aaitahlY rewarded bj laevins tbe earn -t Hit otttra.
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WANTaD -Energetic and luUu.lnuii niuu and
womaa lo canvae erery town and county in Tex
as aad Maw Mexico frtbe new " Pbo-ocromn Mo
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