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gsps between thsm are to be seen, aud
as you look the distance seems but 8
Few miles, but when you are told that
they are miles and miles away--oh, I
don't know how many-your thoughts
ale lost in whirl of smazement
ut the power of tue human Wis
ion. 4 little further to the north from
the first, and = mouatain stands out in
solitude, with valley, PLAIN and river
at its base. This is called San Saba
Pcsk, ard is known far and wiSe by
the Indian and white man alike as a
sure guide to the traveller while on his
wanderings over prairies and rug
ged hills in the distance. As you Turn
your face northward and westward no
more mountains greet your eye, but
rough, craggy hills rise up in the blue
outlines of the distant horizon. Trav-
elers may talk of the mNtchless beauty
and grandeur of the Hudson river seem
ery-and it is true that there is much
to admire in the hills and slopes of the
Hudson, very beautiful in nature, but
most beautiful when made So hv wealth
and powsr-but there is nothing from
Albany to the sea in the MANY altrac-
tons along this most famous of rivers
to compare with the strikingly beauti-
full valley which stretches away in
symmetrical beauty in all directions be
low you, when viewed from the sum-
NIT OF Roued Mountain.
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Nature unrolls her magnificent piano.
rama of the changing seasons, each
beautiful in its own way. The charm
ing spring, when the earth renews it.
self and comes forth from the lev grasp
of winter, like new creation fresh
from the Great Author of all things
the perfected, fuller beauty of the
summer season; the fruits of sulumn :;
the rest and warmth of bright fire
sides in winter, when the farmer ceases
from his toll and enjoys the fruits of
his year of labor-through all the
moving scene a thousand sights and
sounds, as old as the earth itself. but
ever new and delightful; the songs
of birds, the ripping streams, to which
the waving trees sigh sweet accom-
psnimcnt. The animal kingdom, too.
is full of interos' The cows. with
their frisky off,pnng; the graceful,
playful colts; the sheep, the little
aRbkin; all combine pleasure with
profit for the farmer. The farmyald
resounds in the spring with the Cow
ing OF chandeliers, the cackle of hens
and the cheep, cheep of numberless
broOds of chickens. In short, Nature
seems to animate herself and wear her
brig htest smiles for her fayorite sons,
the farmers.
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spected the for. and artillery school.

spected the fort and artillery school
He leaves tomorrow for Richmond.
Albany, Nay S.-Governor Robin
son vetoed the bill allowing women &c
held office on school boards. He says
the bill goes too far, or not far enough.
LONDON, May S-The British gov
ernment's request that the Porte ex-
tend for few days the time for clos
ing the Black Sea was granted.
England will defend Egypt from in
reference or attack.
Il is confirmed that Russia does not
intend TO reply to Englard's note.
In their modified form, Mr.. Glad
stones resolutions declare in effect that
Turkey has no claim to the moral or
material support of Great Rritain. This
proposition may receive the full l.ber-
al vote, as well as the support Of such
conservatives as are DESTROYS TO keep
Lord Beaconsield from plunsing the
nation into war. The debate has al
ready constrained the government to
declare that it will harbor no appre-
tensions should the Car declare that
he does intend to seize Constantinople.
This concession to the anti-war party
assured further success.
LIVERPOOL, May S.-The Post says
her Majesty's ship Achilles, lying at
MerSey, received instructions to pre-
coed to Plymouth on Friday. II is
said the government has already IS, 600
troops and II, 900 horses ready TO EN-
bark at any moment.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May S.-A corps
of Polish volunteers is being formed
here.
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What do You Think OF II,

We read of a scheme devised in Ore
gon for the suppression of drunkenness,
which requires every person buying
liquor for his own OF another persons
consumption to take out an annual
license, costing not less than five dol
lars. Every six months the names Of
those having licenses are to be pub
lished, and no saloon keeper is to be
permitted to sell drink 10 a man un-
less he can produce the all-important
document, properly certified and bear
ing the seal of the county court. The
proposed law certainly has merits. In
Philadelphia, for instance, it would
bring million and half or two mil
lions of dollars revenue in the public
treasury every year. And then the
publication of the name of the licensed
drinkers every six months would help
to keep some of our starving contem-
poraries alive, who, by trading type
and printing three or four hundred sup
plements which never reach their sub
scribers, now reap such rich harvest
from the delinquent tax and mercantile
appraisers lists. The solitary drinker,
fortified by the possession OF his license
in his pocket, need have no fear of ex-
posure, except when found drunk with
no license, when the proposed Oregon
law would insist upon his imprison-
ment in the house of correction for at
least six months. The idle vagabond,
having no money TO procure a license,
would have no whisky, and thus
drunkenness would be banished from
the land. and the good time for which
Brother Murphy is praying would dawn
upon people emancipated from the
vice of age.
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How is Your Liver.

If you are troubled with headache,
dizziness, iDcapacity to keep the mind
on any subject, dizzy, sleepy or nerv-
Gus feelings, irritability of temper or
bad taste In the mouth, palpitation,
unsteady appetite, pains in the side,
or any such symptoms of liver COM
plant and constipation of the bowels,
go to your druggists, Morley Bros,
aud get q bottle OF DR.. Sherman's
Prickly Ash Bitteis. No spirit is used
in the manufacture of them, except a
pure article of Holland gin. They are
a thousand times easier to take than
pills, seidlItz powders, etc. Ladies in
particular will find them peculiarly
adapted to their wants and conditions
of life in all ages.
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BEWARE OF FRAUDULENT IMITA-
TIoNs Like all other superior articles
of undoubted merit and universal pop
ularity, Simmons's Liver Regulator is
initiated by artful and unscrupulus
men, and invalids should be on their
guard against any and all efforts to pro-
mote the sale of their worthless prep
arations. The counterfeiters of our
invaluable medicine assume various
euises, make their appearance in differ
ent sections of the country, and adopt
diversified modes of operation, but to
be forewarned is to be forearmed
against all their Vaccinations. Buy
no powders or prepared Simmons's
Liver Regulator unless in our engraved
wrapper, with trade mark, stamp and
signature unbroken. None other is
genuine. J. II. ZEILIN s. Co.
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Synopsis Of Decisions in the SUI
preme Court.
REPORTED BY JOHN C. RANDOLPH AND
A. r. COLEMAN.

Walter CustaId v. John J. Musgrove;
appeal from Travis. Opinion by Q.
NJ Roberts, c. J.
Appellant brought an action Of tres
pass to Try title, and defendant pleaded
not guilty, and also specially set out
title in himself derived from the plain
tiff. The plaintiff below on the trial
failed to make out a chain of title to
the lots sued for, and the court in
structed the jury to return a verdict
for defendant. This court says: THE
question in this case is, did not the
burthea of proof rest upon the defend
ant Musgrove-he having pleaded title
In himself, derived, as to the third in
terest sued for from the plaintiff, Wal
ter Custard. If so the court erred in
directing the jury to End verdict for
the defendant; the defendant having
failed to adduce any evidence in sup
port of his special plea, and in fact 40
evidence at all. Since the decision in
Rivers v. Foote, II Tex, 10, it has
been regarded as substantially settled,
that when a defendant in an action of
trespass to try title, dies special plea
setting up title IN himself and setting
out his title, he is confined in his de-
Tense to the title set up by him, and
the general denial or plea of not guilty
that he may have pleaded also, is there's
by waived. This rule may not apply
to a claim of title under the statute of
limitation, which is required by law to
be specially pleaded. In practice it
has not been SO applied: that plea and
the plea Of not guilty being often found
together without objection"
Reversed and remanded.
Gordon v. The State; appeal from
Guadalupe. Opinion by o. NJ. Rob-
erts, CD.
This suit must be dismissed for want
of jurisdiction. The peculiar and sum-
mary power to remove sheriff, con-
ferred by the Constitution of 1869,
does not now exist. (Sectlon IS, arti-
Gle 5, Constitution 1862 The RENE
dy, for a removal of a sheriff and other
county officers, prescribed by the Con-
stitution of 1876, is different, in that
it requires the facts constituting the
ground of removal to be presented in q
written charge, and to be found to be
true by jury. (Section "a, article 5,
Constitution of 1850 The district
court would therefore have no power
to carry into effect the judgment of
this court if it was affirmed here, and
sent back there. In addition to this,
the term of office of the sheriff has
long since expired, and decision
would be useless and imperative.
Dismissed.
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Round Mountain, described by the
San Saba Ns1s, is fifty miles from Aus
tin, almost in the midst of the pretty
town OF San Saba. It is covered with
mesquit trees and grass. No wagon
road leads up its side, though wagon
or carriage could easily be driven 90
the top. When once you have over
come the distance and fatigue incident
to walk up the slope end 70 the cone
you will soon forget all these in the
picturesque and beautiful landscape.
On every side, north, south, east and
west, so far as the eye can distinguish
objects, evergreen fields are outsprezd
at all seasons OF the year. As youtface
the north, away 20 the right yonder,
= succession Of mountain cliffs with
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FALSE IMPREssIoN.- 1t is generally
supposed by certain class of citizens,
who are not practical or experienced,
that dyspepsia cannot invariably be
cured, but we are pleased to say that
Green's August Flower has never, to
our knowledge, failed to cure dyspep-
STA and liver compla Mt in all its forms,
such as sour ston ach, costiveness, sick
headache. palpitation of the heart low
spirits, etc. Out of 10000 doz:l bot
ties sold last year not single failure
was reported, but thousands of compli-
mentary letters received from druggists
of wonderful cures. Three doses will
relieve any case. Try it. Sample bot
ties ten cents. Regular size seventy
five cents. For sale by Morley Bros,
Pecan street.
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OF failing energy, tina: to which the
tagged out man of business, the brain
fatigued author, the tired advocate or
the weary artizln can resort with the
greatest certainty that it will revive his
overweight powers, is hostet'er's
Stomach Bitters, most genial tonic
cordial, as we'll as benign remedy for
disorders of the stomach, liver, bowels
and urinary organs, and means of
eradicating and preventing intermit
tent fevers. 1t not only enriches the
blood and creates new fund of energy
in the system, but it has the effect of
expelling impurities from the life cur
rent which beget disease. The injuri-
Gus Influence of abrupt transitions Of
temperature, of an unwholesome
climate and injurious diet, are counter
acted by it, and it promotes digestion,
sppetite and sound repose. Give it a
trial and be convinced.
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If you suffer from sick or nervous
headache, morning sickness or neu-
ralgia, go to your druggist and get a
ten cent trial pack of DIR. Heisley's
Victor Headache Powers, or J. r.
Heisley & Co., Salem, N. j., will mail
them postpaid. A single powder &C
tually cures the most distressing cases
IN ten minutes. 1t is purely vegetable,
entirely harmless, a physicians dis
covery, and we guarantee it to do all
we claim. You can get the so cent.
packs or the 10 cent. trial size at Nor
ley Bros, in Austin, and at all other
frst-class druggists everywhere. Con-
yiLce Yourself
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Immediately returned to the water
that they may grow and multiply and
in time give US all plenty of the finest
fish that ever delighted anyone's pal
ate. Let every body take an interest in
this matter and preserve this growing
generation. Mr.. Riley tells that few
shad have also been seen in the river.
It is also stated that the dam in the
river, below the city, interferes with
the free passage of those valuable
fishes in the spawning season.
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The BLACK HILLs.-Mr. Lyster, who
has just returned from the gold re
gions in the Black Hills, gives any
thing but an encouraging account Of
things there. He says that thousands
have focked in there who are now al
most in starving condition, and those
who can are getting away. There is
gold in the country, but to get it costs
more than it is worth, and miners labor
under great trials and disadvantages.
The tide of immigration, Mr.. Lyster
says, is still very great to the Black
Hills country, which has been won
derfully overestimated and is the
toughest corner of creation TO be found
in the United States.
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ESTABLISHED l840.-Th0 A. Q. Sim
mons Liver Medicine we see so much
said about In our papers is the old
original and genuine preparation put
up in yellow wrappers with likeness
OF the old Doctor upon each package.
1t cures all affections arising from a
torpid and diseased liver. Ask for the
yellow wrapper, and take no other; it
is the only genuine. Sold by Morley
Brothers, J. J. & w. II. Tobin, X H.
Cousins, X. IL. Smith. NJ. A. Thed-
ford & Co., sole proprietors, Chattanoo-
~, Tennessee.
Received weekly by Morley Brothers
Or j. J. & w. Ii. Tobin.
anl3d6meod&w6m
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as an old maids boudoir, and VIII lie
the management would enforce this
nestness, it is maintained by the jani-
tor, Mr.. C. Callan, who fills his posi-
ton with an integrity unequaled.
Long may the Austin Graded School
exist and prosper, pride to the peo-
pie of Austin. The system is one
which has been established in ali OF the
most advanced communities, and it
will grow here. as il should.
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TIE short lease of popularity which
so many preparations have experienced
proves to demonstration the superb
ority of Home Stomach Bittcrs over
them in its medical virtues, especially
in the case of chills, fevers and dyspep-
STA, and liver disorder.
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IMPORTANT SUIT.-A suit in equity
has been begun in the United States
Circuit Court at Boston, Mass, against
Priest & Page, of that city. agents of
the Howe scales, by the owners of the
Strong s. Ross patents, to recover dam
ages for the infringement of those pat
ents. The suit is very important, as it
affects all parties using the Howe
scales.
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PUBLIC FREE SCHooL.-Parents and
guardians are hereby notified: All
children between the ages of eight and
fourteen years, on September l, 1876,
who have been in attendance in the
Austin Graded School at any time
during the term commencing October
1, 1876, and who have been enrolled in
the "Austin Graded School Commu-
nity," tciH be taught free Of charge in
said school from May to June %,
1877, in the studies prescribed IN the
school law. s. G. SNEED,
President Board Regents.
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MEssRs. MABIS and Wright, mem
bers OF Capt. Halls company, came in
Wednesday with two prisoners, Jim Ma
son and John b. Cook. Mason is from
Karnes, and Cook, from Dewitt county,
the latter charged with murder.
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You need not fear that people will
know that your hair is dyed if you use
that perfect imitation of nature,
TUFTS Hair Dye. No one can detect
it. 1t imparts soft, glossy color and
fresh life t. the hair-a want never
before supplied.
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MANY tic kets in the Louisiana lot
tery were sold in this city. The fol-
lowing numbers drew the first, second
aud third capital prizes in the Tuesday
drawing: No. G,74s, $50, 900; No.
40, 1877, 5000 No. As, 500, $4,000.
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JOHN WALTER, sheriff, aud S.
Klsck, deputy sheriff, and six guards,
brought in ten prisoners Wednesday
from Gillespie county, and stopped
with Sheriff Corwin for the night
The following is list: John Walton,
and Jim Pontop, from Layaca county
Hsnsley, from Washington county, an
escaped convict; Wellington Latimer,
from Dallas, accused of murder
BTauns Mckee, of Burnet county.
The other five are convicts from Gil
lespie county, on their way to Hunts
vile, as follows: J. r. DonohO, j.
D. Jones, w. c. L. Jones, Jack
Fowler and William Blantcul.
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Popular illustrated book (26o pages) on
MANHOOD! WoMASHooD! MARRIAGE
Impediments 10 Marriage; TIE cause and
cure. Sent Ieen,eiy Sedltl, postpaid, for 50
cents, by DR.. c. WHITTIER, or St.
Charles Street, ST. Louis, Mo-, the great
specialist. - Read his work.
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l know a bottle which is fall
OF fragrance. 1t is wonderful
What Sozodont can do for teeth;
How it can purify the breath;
How it can keep the scurf away,
And save the teeth from all decay.
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Report of city sexton for the mouth
Of April, 1877: Total deaths, 10; from
birth to five years, 5; from five to
twenty, 0; from twenty to 40, z; from
forty to SIXTY. 2; over sixty, l.
C. L. NITscHKE, City Sexton.
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CoURr OF APPEALs.-Causes decide

COURT OF APPEALs.-Causes decided
Monday. Msy7 1877:
No. 29-Texas and Pacific Railroad
Company v. Phillip Smith; appeal
from Collin. Judgment affirmed.
Opinion by Ector, p. J.
No. 1l9-C. L. White V. Joe Bills
appeal from Lamar. Opinion by
White, ].
No. 22S-Jas. L. Gibson v. Nancy
B. Craig; appeal frsm Lamar. Re-
verssd and remanded. Opinion by
Ector, p. J.
No. 3e4 -Bpaz, Markles & Co. v.
B. B. Paddock & Co; appeal from
Tarrant. Reversed and remsnded.
Opinion by White, J.
No. 2-Jethro, Addison ct al. v. o.
II. p. Garrett; appeal from Washing
ton. Affirmed. Opinion by Ector,
p. ]. 81
Sa7 - Joe Simons v. The State Of
Texas; appeal from Travis. Reversed
and remAnded. Opinion by White, ].
529-S. G. Smith V. George w. Will
liams; appeal from Williamson. Judg-
ment affirmed.
s71 - Henry Gay v. The State of
Texas; appeal from Harrison. Re
versed and remanded. Opinion by Ec-
tor, P. j.
46S-Peter Brown v. The State of
Texas; appeal from Harrison. AZ
hrmed. Opinion by Winkler, j.
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WALL. PAPERl WALL PAPER "A
large and varied assortment for sale at
greatly reduced prices, by j. j. d W.
II Tobin. ffSd&wlf
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HERE comes the Or ithmetic puzzle,
our John, who must have been born
multiplying or dividing, with the con-
undrum, "What two whole numbers,
multiplied together, make seven. !"
We guessed and guessed, and then got
mad and said amiably, "There are no
such numbers; it can't be did," After
we had abused the urchin TO our
hearts content, he quietly remarked
that If four year-old child couldn't
answer that question he ought to be
we'll rodded. We event for" him
when he yelled out, Glow much is
seven times one 2"
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SHAD AND SALNoS.-Mr. VIM. Riley,
the fisherman who domicils at the juno
ton Of the Colorado river and Barton's
creek, tells that two shoals of young
salmon can be seen at the mouth of
Shoal creek. They are from three to
ak inches long, and every one of them
is worth his size in gold if allowed to
remain in the river and grow. These
little salmon are undoubtedly the pro-
duct OF those placed in the Colorado
two years ago by the United States fish
commission. They are . compact,
trim-looking 6sh, with small mouths
and rings encircling the body. Any
sreh 6sh caught in nets should be
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GALVESTON MARKETS.

MEssRs. GRANT AND WILLIAMS
The following notice of the evange-
lists, Messrs. Grant and Williams, who
are now holding meeting in this city,
appeared in the Warrensburg, Missouri,
Journal Democrat, at the close of the
last meeting they held before coming
to Texas to hold Sabbath school con-
ventions:
We dislike fulsome praise under any
circumstances, and we would not be
understood, IN the comments we make
herein, as extolling the virtues and
piety of the gentlemen whose names
appear in the caption, above their just
deserts or those of many othe: men in
our own community. We simply de-
sire to testify to their discreet and
earnest bearing, and the evidences of
evan gelical piety and JUNCTION which
accompanied their labors in our city.
Mr.. Grant is gentleman of splen
did native talents and liberal culture.
He is native of London, England,
and both his name and accent proclaim
his Scotch descent. His sermons are
characterized by an earnestness and
simplicity which cannot fail to elicit
corresponding sympathy in the breast
of every nearer. His favorite theme is
the.story..of the cross, of..which he never
tires of speaking; and whether the
tenor of his text points to the "accept-
able year of the Lord" or the "day of
vengeance of our God, he never closes
sermon without offering the blessings
of the gospel he proclaims, to his au-
dIence, and his earnest, pathetic ap-
| peals to the unconverted to accept
Christ are tender enough to melt the
hardest heart. His acquaintance with
| the scriptures is truly wonderful, and
he always has the proper quotation at
hand to sustain his position. Mr..
Williams is the singer, and singer he
truly is. He seems to enter fully into
the spirit of every song, and by his
earnest and judicious labors in this
department does much to advance the
glorious work in which they are en-
gagged. They were engaged in War
rensburg for about three weeks, and
! the meetings resulted in the conversion
of over two hundred souls. This is q
glorious result, and would well repay
the service of their whole lives. They
will next commence series of meet
ings In Holden. We trust that ouI
sister town may receive even greater
measure OF the divine blessings than
did Warrensburg, in consequence OF
the labors of these consecrated IL en-