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Massachusetts also

nation; e. Massachusetts also
seconded hesE5.. Ion. He knew of nc
other one who could carry Massachusetts,.
Kisses and applause When Mslne was
called a scene u the widest confusion
ensued, delegates and spectators rising to
their feet, waving hats, etc., aud cheers
long and loud, closing with three cheers
for Blaine.-
Mr.. Ingersoll, of Illinois, said he was
satisfied with the loyalty of Bristow, but il
Massachusetts can't carry any nominee OF
this convention, he was not satisfied with
the loyalty of Massachusetts If they can't
carryit by $4,000, they had better sell out
Faneuil Hall for Democratic hall, and re-
move the monument from Bunker Hill. He
urged and wanted for president sreformer
after as well as before the elecuo1ssa, man
OF political statesman's periel lap
plausel; man of ints IA. ows
enough to know that pat.2 y debt
must be paid BY ihs Rrei pf me Amer
and elected t'e when he said
the party der ete Of spotless
purity, but d That he shall
present 3 cer fer from the
Congress
+ Frye followed ID be nomina-
tion of Names idol
MIR. Woodward Conkling.
(qreat applause. ipg the hon.
oEed name of Rqs he said
wise in counsel, d B true
to the old Repubnc le needle
to the pole, he nee her defense or
eulogy."
CINCINNATI, June 16.-The first ballot
has been taken, with the following result
Blaine 285. Bnstow 113, ConkIing 90, Nor
tor "a, Hayes 81, Jewell II, Hartranft SO,
Wheeler g.; total 752; necessary to choice
379.
At noon the convention was discussing
the vote of Pennsylvania.
CINCINNATI, June 16.-12:10 P. M
When the Pennsylvania vote was called,
Blaine had gained 10 votes, Bristow had
gained and Hartranft 9.
CINCINNATI, June 16.-Second ballot
Blaine 29S, Bristow ia, Morton III, Conk-
ling SO, Hayes Ga, Hartranft 53, Wheeler 3
and Washburne 1. ~
Third ballot-Blai1e 293, Br1stow 121,
Conkling 80, Hartranft 68, Hayes 81, Nor
ton 113, WashburDe 1, Wheeler 9.
Fourth ballot-Blaine 292, Bristow 1876,
Conkling "a, Hartranft II, Hayes 68, Nor
ton 10S, Washburne 8, Wheeler Q. Total
754, necessary to choice $40. ..a 81
Fifth ballOt-Blaine 2S7, Bristow IA
Conkling 80, Hayes 102, Hartranft &c.
Morton 95, Washburne 8, Wheeler Q. al ,0
Sixth ballot-Blaine 30S, Bristow III,
Cenkling 81, Hartranft so, Hayes 113, Nor
ton S5, Washburne 4, Wheeler 2. Total
745. u.
Seventh ballot-Blaine 351; Bristow 81.
Hayes 384; necessary to a choice, $40;
Hayes nominated.
CINCINNATI, June denominations for
Vice President were Stewart L. Woodford,
Governor Hawley, Fred F. Frellnghuysen
and VIM. A. Wheeler. Roll was then
called. When New York was called Wood
ford took the platform and withdrew his
name. When South Carolina had been
called, Wheeler having already received
366 votes, Kellogg, of Connecticut, with
drew the name of Hawley and moved the
nomination of Wheeler be declared unanil
nous, which was agreed to, and the con-
vention adjourned. 30 ~
CINCINNATI, June 16. There was great
confusion over the ruling of the chair dur
ing the proceedings. a
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BEFORE the Passengers for Californis
left New York on the special trans-conti.
mental train for San Francisco, they were
wined and dined at the Herald Office,
Illuminated by calcium lights, and saw fif-
teen thousand copies OF the paper worked
off in thirty minutes. The press still takes
the lead of railroads. There is genius and
lightning in fifteen thousand HsrGlds in
thirty minutes, and only terrific force in
locomotives shaking continent, and its
ideas of progress while flying like name
less monsters of Earth's youth over sea and
land. The journey wSs made within the
time contemplated, eighty-four hours from
New York to San Francisco, ss17 miles
10 II miles per hour.
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Mr. SPEAKER KERR escaPes from con-
tamination with renewed luster Of honest
fame The fellow who impeached his
honor confessedly received money 10 be
used in bribing Congressman, and in order
to account to his employer must needs tell
that he spent $500 in securing Kerr's favor.
It is common trick Of knaves frequenting
the lobby at Washington to ascertain the
purpose Of congressmen in reference to =
pending measure, and then to approach
those interested in the bill with the propOsi-
ton TO secure the vote Of the member fOr 8
given sum- Congressmsn thus sold are not
siways knAvez.
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rrLDEN roa ran rakslDRScr.


z II Tlden had never written another line
than those that follow, they would make
him the favored candidate Of honest ps-
trio'ism everywhere for the presidency.
When Sheridan was crushing the hfe-blood
out OF liberty and statehood in louisiana,
and Governor Hubbard was eloquently in
Weighing against the satrap's misdeeds even
here in the capital Of Texas, Governor Til
den's message to the New York Legislature,
dealing with these terrible facts, closed
with memorable and impressive words. that
wiz be written in letters Of gold on ban
ners Of Democracy in this centennial year:
New York, first Of the COMMONWEALTH,
OF the American Union in population, IN Re.
sources. and in military power, should de.
clare her sentiments on this occasion with
. distinctness dignity and solemn en-,
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THE proposition made In Congress to
name New Mexico in honor of Montezuma
is hardly rational. The memory of Mon
tezuma is properly despised. He was killed
by mob of his own countrymen, and was
weak, despicable and irresolute ruler,
with more wives than Brigham Young or
the late Sultan of Turkey. There is not a
hamlet in Mexico SO mean that the people
have named it Montezuma. If Congress
would baptize the new State ''Guatemozln, !"
the memory of the deeds and death of a
hero will be perpetuated; but let US not do
violence to the incurable prejudices of
neighboring Republic by honoring man
despised everywhere, save by readers of
books, written, as we suppose, to make
SpaniarGs and their church odious. 1.-THE
halls of Montezuma," and not the man,
won the admiration and excited the
greed of Americans, and Congress should
not blunder in baptizing, as it has been
criminal in destroying States.
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phssis which will command the thoughtful
attention of Congress, of her sister States,
and OF the people of our whole country.
With the same unanimity with which she
upheld the arms of the Union in the past
conflict, she should now address herself to
the great and most sacred duty of re-estab-
fishing civil liberty and the personal rights
of individuals, of restoring the ideas and
habits of freedom, and of reasserting the
supremacy of the civil authority over the
military power throughout the Republic.
SAMUEL ]. TnDRN.
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ATTORNEY GEKERAL's OFFICE,

AOoAlN, OubC AOfO. l
Hon. J. s. Griffith, Chairman Printing Committee,
House Of Representatives: A a.l7 l aa :
Sir-In compliance with your request, l
have carefully examined the printing act Of
May IL, 1876, the bid of Col. J.. d. Elliott
and the contract made in pursuance thereof,
and have the honor to state that, in my
opinion, the public printer should be al
lowed pay for bills, memorials, ETC., at the
following rates, to-wit:
1. For 200 copies Of bill, memorials, ETC.,
81. 62 per page for number of pages in one
copy thereof. For any number between 100
and zoo, 81 SO cents per page for number
of pages in one copy thereof. For any
number over 200 at the same rate allowed
for 200. to { l7
2. For 100 copies of bills, ETC., 81 40 per
page for number of pages In one copy
thereof. For any number lessthan 100 and
over so copies 81. 40 per page for number Of
pages in one copy thereof. rI
8. For so copies. $1.30 per page for the
number of pages in one copy thereof. For
any number of pages [copiesl less than 90
the same as for 80 copies.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
II. II. BOONE,
Attorney General.
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THE deposition of the Turkish Sultan
was SO sudden and unexpected that the
event was hardly credited, and then, when
his neck was not eraelsed= hy a bow.strinp.
Christian civilizatfdn IND the enlightened
opinion of mankind were gratifed that they
had won power even on the shores of the
Bosphorus. The dethroned Sultan, after
thinking about 1t. concluded that he had
all along been intending to resign, but was
saved the trouble, and he goes very quietly
to reside, badly supplied with wives, in a
quiet nook in Asia Minor.
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HENDERSON and Floyd, horse tie yes,
were hanged at Weatherford by aIleb.
The mob, too, should be hanged; but fo
prevent the action of mobs the Legislature
should provide for the certain and speedy
and terrible punishment of horse thieves
and murderers, and jackasses should sit on
juries neither in criminal nor civil cases,
and the branding-iron and stocks should
rise up to avenge crime instead of the school
for its promotion. the penitentiary.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS,
To the Sheriff OF Travis county, greeting


You are hereby commanded TO summon by publica-
ton OF this citation for eight successive w, eks prior
10 the thereof In newspaper pu ublished in
Travis county, the here OF Henry inehart, whose
nnee and residence unknown, be and appear be-
fore the District Court to be holden In and Tor the
county OF Travis the court house thereof in the
city OF Austin the fifteenth Monday after the first
Monday IN July next then and answer the pa
tition OF Edward L. Compton, hed in said court
against the said heirs alleging in subs tance as
follows, towit: That the pl intIf resides in the
county OF Travis and state OF Texas naines
and places OF residence OF the defendants sure un-
known TO the plaintih; thgt Henry hart who
now dead ON the If eebth day Of Jnne A. ID. l94O
was the owner of headlight land certificate No % IN
the name of William johnson, issued by the board OF
land commissioners OF Jack county, for one-third
league OF land; thar afterwards, the twentyfourth
day OF May 1881 plaintiu became the and pos
OF naid cerif and The ruuiments of little
to the rame through intermediate transfers and
deliveries Of the ssid certificate and muuiments OF
title from said Rnehart down TO hims elf aud has
since had continuous, open, quiet and ADVERSE pos
session OF said certificate, by reason Of which facts
and the statute OF limit atoms of tao years which he
specially pleads heis the legal and equitable of
said certincate; and having had the same lawfully
located and surveyed In surveys he is apply
ing for patents the 20, but the defend
an are hindering aud 0bstIuciing hlm from
transfer has been made for said certificate
from said kinehsrt and that the title the in
Athe heirs OF Rnehart to the damage Of petitioner in
tue s=m Of two thousand dollars which Is the value
Against the defendants ha ne has full and complete
title to SAID certificate and enjOmIng them perpetually
from setting up title TO the same Tor costs and gem
Herein fail not, but have you then and there before
said court this wIitwtth your return
- thereon showing yoa- have executed
snS as sSS sea. Sn 3; .a5 S5dsT my hand
~ city of Austin, this the eighth day
OF June, A. ID. 1916
K. HALLMANN,
to9-D1tNSt. ..CIerA ID. C. It @.
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GEN. Tom GREENS picture, now hanging
in the Capitol, will be presented, by mem
bers of his old command, on the Fourth OF
July, to the State. Major ]. D. Sayers will
deliver the presentation speech, and Gov
ernor Hubbard will reply for the State.
Many of the command will be present, and
the display and ceremonies will be very in
terestinp ..
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Your Committee en- Finance, to whom
was referred q resolution to ascertain the
amounts due inspectors and supervisors up
on approved voHchers of Hon. J. G. De-
Gress, late Superintendent of Public In
struction, have, upon due consideration OF
the subject, arrived At the following con-
ciusions; The Office Of SuperiHtendent Of
Public Instruction being abolished, the COM
mittee is without mr@1- and authority 70
examine the records of said office. With
the reports of the late superintendent Of
Public Instruction for the years 1871 and
1871 before Us, We find that the amount Of
one Thousand dollsTs will be sufficient 70
pay all claims Of snpcrvisors, outstanding
and unpaid To ascertain the amount due
inspectors would require II least one month
clerical labor, the records being volEmin-
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NEWSPAPERS are apt to forget that legis-
lative bodies that act wisely move slowly.
Acts OF legislation are perfected in commit
tees, and since these must consider and ar
range and codify countless resolutions re
ferred to them in the first weeks and months
OF the session, and can only report after this
task Is done, and the Legislature can do
nothing till these reports are made, the peo
pie think the process slow. Speed comes
at the close of the session, and even then
there is often more haste than good speed.
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SEVENTEENTH n,srR1rr


CoIntieS.-Upshur and Camp
REPRESENTATIVES, q. Z. WARREN is a ma
tive of Missouri, and has lived in Texas for
the last thirty years. He is a married man,
fifty-one years of age, and resides in Upshar
codAty, Texas is possessed of good eduea-
ton, and is a gentleman of sterling worth
and integrity, possessing the confidence of
those who know him best. He has held the
important position of district clerk of Up
shur county for number of years, and in
this capacity has met with the appreciation
of the court, bar and people. Recognizing
his worth and energy, the Democrats of his
district nominated him for the Legislature, to
which he was elected by majority of 1113.
EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.
C0uRty.-Lamar.
REPRESENTATIVE NJ. II. McCUIsTIoN is
native of Tennessee, and has been resident
of Texas for thirty seven years. He is forty
seven years old, married, and resides in La
mar county, Texas. His parents came TO
Texas when he was only ten years old, and
he has grown up, with all the characteristics
of a Texan. His education was obtained,
partly at night, when the days toll was over !;
and later in life it was more thoroughly ac-
quired while performing the duties of teach
er. He is professional farmer, and possesses
a highly improved place in Lamar county.
MIR. McCuistion has done some public ser
vice; was assessor and collector of taxes in
NOuiity iIOin lOOO W lCOI, In6Ii ell
tered the Confederate army, and served as a
soldier, on the east side of the Mississippi
EiEsE sE ff0m @ March 1862 to the surrender. He
private soldier in the seventh Texas infantry,
the regiment carried into the service by Gen.
s. B. Maxey, now United States Senator from
Texas His first service as legislator was
as member of the Fourteenth Texas Legis-
lature, to which position he was elected as a
Democrat, without opposition. He was re-
elected TO the Fifteenth Legislature as a Dem
ocrat, by majority of about fifteen hundred
votes. He was nominated in the county pri-
mary election by a majority of 1908 over a
Democratic opponent s
NINETEENTH DISTRICT.
COltnty.-Fannin.
REPRESENTATIVE LAKE c. WILSON is q ma
tive of Arkansas, is thirty-seven years old,
and has been resident of Texas for twenty
one years, just long enough, according to an
atomical theories, to make him three times a
Texan. Though not so handsome gentle
man as his Senator, he has succeeded in cap
turing a companion for life, and is raising up
a goodly family of children. He is liberal to
fault, generous, and is carving out for him
self, through difficulties, fortune
Mr.. Wilson has several times been a men,
Der of the board of aldermen of Bonham,
and was strongly urged as a candidate for a
seat in the late constitutional convention. '
By dint of an earnest canvass he was nomi-
mated and elected to the Fifteenth Legisla-
ture by majority of 1884 votes He is the
special representative of Fannin county.
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.5 EVERY citizen of Texas appreciating the
moral influence of powerful newspaper,
invested with it by the genius and toll of
a great editor, will deplore the severance
of Horace Cones connection with the Hous-
ton TeLeQraph.
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HAYES is nominated to the Presidency,
and some honest Republican may lose what
rightfufy belongs to him. Hayes is the
Hon. Guy M. Bryan's candidate, as an.
nounced In a letter published some months
since in the Galveston Neaos; and now we
earnestly protest against Democrat getting
some position, upon Hayes's election, right
fully belonging to some one who has all
the time stuck closely to the Republican
Marty
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T OST.

il -, =.
Headlight Of VIM. ". Rozer for 800 pcres issued
In March, 1874 by the b ard % Land Commi sioners
Of jackson county. Bounty warrant No. $685., for
$40 acres, Issued to John F. RozIer May 80 1873.
Donation warrant No, 49, for 6iO acres, issded 10
Christopher Williams, May "a, 1893. First class head
right Of K. q. Allison for labor No I61. issued
January 1885, by the Board OF Land Commiss on ers
OF Sabine county. First class headlight OF Josiah
TAYLOR, for5one-thd hague, No 25 Issued March 1,
1888, by the Board OF Land Commissioners OF Victo-
ria county. Ana the INDICATED balace Of 4,1G6 G66
square yBras Of the headlight OF Decatur Daniels is
,eued October g. 1850, by the Commissioner OF the
Genera Land once. And Toby scrip Nos. /, o. g. 4,
TO- IL. 70, i3. H. 49, each for $40 acres, is
Jr and Nos 3s se 46 as 46 30 go ST. 3d. 81 55 b6, 81
IS. 30 CO. 81 g. 63 e. g. 66 and a. each for $40
issued by Thomas Toby, July IL, 1896, to Saml
st. John, Jr. II not found in ninety days !
viii apply for duplicates; BARNES PARKER, sg
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Lowndes LipscOmb, sLeriH Of Fannin,
slept while guarding G.. II. Rord, forger,
and Ford wsded into Lowndes's pockets,
cleaned them out, took his baggage and
retired 70 private life Lipscomb is awful
mad.
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THE Sherman Register says: ''The Aus
tin STATESMAN wants Lyman Trumbull, of
Illinois, nominated for Vice President at
St. Louis. A better man for the place
could not be found"
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NO. 45

Gus. The committee would therefore re-
spectfully recommend that the above
amount, and such otker sums as may be
found by the board of education, upon its
organization, to be justly due inspectors
and other employees of the school depart
meet be embraced in the general appropri-
anu for the ensuip4 fiscal year.
Respectfully submitted,
-. KoPPERL, Chairman.
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L LEGISLATIVE DIRE. TORY REP
RkSENTAIlVES.
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.

COunteeS.-lltus and Franklin.
REPRESENTATIVE McCAMY A. HARRIS was
born in Talbot county, Georgia, in 1928. He
came to Texas in 1851, and settled first in
Marion county; afterward moved to Titus
county, where he now resides, living with
his family in the town of Ripley By pro.
fession and occupation he is a farmer. -J
Mr.. Harris has never, before the late elec-
ton, been the recipient of public civil posi-
ton at the hands of the people. He was a
good soldier in the Confederate army and
was among the unfortunate prisoners taken at
Arkansas Post After this he served under
Gen. Pat. Cleburne, in the celebrated Gran
bury's Texas Brigade, and was one of eight,
out of one hundred and fourteen first com
posing Company B., of the fifteenth Texas
regiment, who continued in the service to the
close of the war. -Lv -. t-a-.
In politics he has always been Democratic;
was nominated for the Legislature by the
Democrats of his district, and, though there
were two independent Democratic candidates
opposing him, was elected respectively by
115 and ITO votes. :
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L - .-.. 10 lt-.a. i9il1la- =
certified copy Of unlocated balance certificate No.
1870, sssued by jacob Kuechier, Comm ssioner Of
General Land Office, May 3l, 1873 10 John Subble-
field, which certified copy was issued September 30,
1874 In lieu of original for the purpose OF locating
balance 18 square yAras of Ian II not heard
from in ninety days application will be made for
duplicate or other proper certificate. -.
IIt- l1f..l -tlNi'-. w. j. MONTGOMERY.
Austin, April 10. 1876. .I - ) . ~ aprIs~60d
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Land Certificate No. :, which was issd ed to Joseph
of Land Commissioners OF Austin comfy. II same
not heard Of In sixty days application wnbe made to
the Commissioner OF the General Land Office for du-
plicate.' fai -fi-is tttl- a WIN. F. CLARKE.
mat3dltwSt . Attorney for heirs OF Joseph Davis.
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SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.
Couafies.-Smith and Gregg.


REPRESENTATIVE Ed. p. MARSHALL is q
native Of Alabama, vas raised in Texas, and
Is thirty-three years of age came to Texas
twenty-five years age, and, prior to his ad-
mission to the bar, received liberal classical
education at Gilmer High School, under Pro
fessor Morgan II. Looney; studied law under
our present Chief Justice Roberts, ST the same
institution, and has since then occupied prom
inent position in his profession Mr. Marshall
was soldier in the Confederate States army,
during the whole Of four years, attached 70
Greggs seventh Texas regiment, under Gen.
Joseph + Johnston was twice prisoner OF
war - once captured at Fort Anderson and
next q FranklIn-end was confined for some
time a. both Camps Douglas and ChR-e
In politics Mr. Marshall Is Democrat
The Democrats Of his district supported him,
in the fan Of 1872, for the district attorney
ship Of the Ninth JudiciaI Districs, 10 which
position he Wlls elected, and which be held q
the beginning Of his legislative term
Dir Mafzhan is : man Of family, and re
sides at L0ngvisW, IN Gregg county.