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Light Castings Made to Order.
POWELL s. DOUGLAS, Waukegan, Ill.
CARRIAGE AND Bhat KSMilH SHOP.

TIME UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE TO
/ I'm the public generally, tina, he mas
secured as fnrem an In his shop, MI. j nj :
PAYNE. who form erly did busii ess, az the cor
ner of Sycamore ana Elm streets He is one OF
the best workmen in the state am prepared
10 do ali kinjs OF repairing, either Ia WOOD or
iron, on the shorte ct notice and ~ INST SUP
stontitI manner Carriages made or repaired
I have two shops-ene corn erof Live OAK ana
Elm streets, and he other In East Dallas, two
blocks q stof the railroad on Elm street where
ali need ne work are invited to.call. hohsE
SHOLING q speciality by myself
ROBERT DONNFITY.
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TERRELL.
,r,e spondence o. the Hera d

correspondence o. the Hera d.
TERRELL, August % 1850,
The boil worm is still doing much damage
10 the cotton crops in this county.-The
committee for the barbecue has invited the
following distinguished gentlemen to attend
and address our citizens on the Sth prox:
Roberts. Throekmorton, Welborn, Maxey,
Hubbard, Mills, Crawford, Lsnhsm,
Buchanan, Kearby, Story, Sayers, Sterrett,
editors Of HERALD, Simpson, Morton,
Miner, Hamman and Jones.
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mtRKETS BY GElEGHAPH.
FOREIGN.

LIVERPOOL, August 2s.--Noon-- Cotton easier;
middlipg uplands, 5.l6; middling Orleans,
~; receipts, $3.50; American, 3,O50 sales,
5, 600; speculation and export 900; uplands low
middling classlllcations for August delivery
5-32; August and September, I 3-S2@ll-l6
September and October, 2l-S2@sa October
and November,6 II 3?@ll-l6; November and De-
cember, 9-32@A; December and January,
& 9-I6; January and February, 9-3l; Feb.
ruary and March, - March and April,
ll-S2; April and May, 6's; futures weak.
80 p m - uplauds, ! 3-l6i Orleans, N;
l6; ordinary, "a
sis m-saies Of American, 800; futures
closed cay Tor near m.nths; for distant
months steady
NEW YORK.
New YoRK, Aug. &c. - Stocks firm; money,
2@3; exchange long, 4 sos; do short, S224
State bonds dull; Governments firm.
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MATTERS BY NAIL,
NEWS FROM OUR NEAR NElGHBoRs

v,rderer Returned from Fort worth
TO Observation-Disclosures Notes from
Tyler Corsicana Cotton Re.
ceipts. Prospective Hotel
and County Fair, Etc,
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KANSAS CITY
KANSAS CITY, August &c .-Wheat-No 2spot,
s0i &c; No. spot, 12lic
Bacon-Clear, 80. rib and long, ga
NEW ORLEANS.

Consols, 471sa43.
Flour quiet but steady; supreme, s@Ai
double, 4@14' treble 43aSAi higher sfaues'
Pork quiet hut weak, 1914.
Lard quiet but weak; by the tierce, va +; keg,
at9S. ,,,,o.,
loose, 6ls; packed, 6h@A; clear rlps, =
Bacon scarce but fl m; shoulders, ca; clear
ribs, ga; clear sid 8, 10
Hams dull and lower; choice sugar cured can
Whisky steady; western rectifed, Oo@lo,
Coffee steady; quoted cargoes ordinary
mon. -; fair to fully fair, 9@b; prime
to choice open kettle, 1Oa; yellow
clarified, lO1a.
Molasses dull and nominal; inferior, -;
common, 2i@25; fair, -; centrifugal
Price Rice i in good demand; ordinary to choice,
$685..
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20. = Flour firm for best;
double, 3 4O1e5; triple, 20@iO; family, q
60: choice, 1890; fancy, 8 O5@;5,
Wheat gner Sat r nrSs biz
for September; 0isS09235 for October
Corn dull; s5's@H cash; SjH@36 for Septem-
Der; 379s for October.
Oats dull; 26iS cash; % for November
Whisky steady %.
Pork quiet; j0bbing, Is 10
| Lard firm, s 10 asked so bid.
Bulk meats dull; quoted shoulders
: 40: clear ribs, sh; clear sides, "a a.
Bacon firm; quoted; shoulders, 20
| ribs, o 375a; sides, 10.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 26.-Hogs dull but lower
Workers and Baltimores, 9O@o OO; paoE;-
inr. 9O@5 90; miXei, 9O@5 90; butchers
2o@Soi receipts, ,oOO SHIPMENT o 1dpc ,igb
o Iase steers. 8 5000 20; heavy shipping 2,
@7o: exporters, 7O@5 90; grass Texans, Jug
d is; receipts, 1900; shipments, !, lOo. eoo
Sheen aiiet and unchanged; receipts, eoV
shipments zone.
CHICAGO.
| Cu1cAeo, August 26.-The Drovers, Jonr ma
reports cattle receipts, $500; shipments. a'p b
good to choice shipping and export scarce nu
stronger. bO0l5 90; native butchers OO@2 %
mainly, 3 5OS3 90; calves, So@6v grass lex
ans, so@S 90; stockers slo ", Yo@eS. nx,s
sheep receipts, 1905 shipments. 20; marSe
butchers, 8 SOFA 90, shipping, 1910; goot
feeders, / Is; lambs, oo@a 90 per head
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Pork heavy, l6 10. Lard weak, at S Is,
Spirits turpentlne, 3d. Rosin, las. Freights
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MluullhS ulhuhu5 's''''s '''''''''' ''''''
Mludling orleans ................''''.' AZ q
Consolidated net receipts 2, 500; exports to
-; channel, -.
Wool quict but steady; domestic fleece,
3Sa50; pulled, 22@47; unwashed, l5@37 Texas,
lS4S5. y
Hides about steady but quiet wet salted New
Orleans, so to rs lbs, III Texas, selected, 80 to
IS lbs, llh@l3.
Night-Money, gas; exchange, 4SO'4; Gov
eynm-nts quiet; new SIS, lG2:s; AIS, lllA;
rs, 1929; State bonds dull
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GALVESTON

GALvKsroN, august 96.-Kecelpts net, SlVi
gross, -; exports to Great Britain, -;
France, -; channel, -- continent, -;
coastwse, 40; stock, 4,2lO; sales, So bales;
market closed steady.
Good ordinary, .,.,,.............. ....... 10
Low middling ...,......o...,..... .,........ l0ll
Middling. ..""..,... ll3a
Good midilng ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IL,
Middling fair. l2]i
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Prohibition in Kansas.


The St. Louis Republican
says Kansas is about to make
an attempt to be a liquorless
state, the proposed prohibition
amendment to the constitution
having been adopted at the re-
cent election. 1t is founded on
the assumption that the only
effectual method of preventing
drunkenness is to strike at the
root Of the evil by forbidding
the manufacture and sale Of the
article that produces it. Wheth-
er this prohibition can be en-
forced or not, however is a ques-
ton which experience does not
sufficiently answer. There was
no considerable opposition
made to the amendment il the
canvass. A large sum of money
was collected outside the state
and sent into it to defeat the
proposition, but it is said that
this money, instead Of being
expended in efforts against the
amendment, was appropriated
by the committees and persons
into whose hands it was intrust-
ed, who did nothing to earn il.
This mastery inactivity on the
part of those who were expect
ed to oppose the proposition,
reinforced by the diligence and
activity of those who favored it
the women ardently espous-
ing the prchition cause and Ia
boring industriously. to secure
votes for drought about the
adoption of the measure by
large majority. theoretically,
at least, therefore, Kansas is,
from this time forth, to be freed
from the evil of drunkenness;
for, if the amendment shall be
enforced so that no spirits can
be manufactured or sold in the
state, the elysian condition Of
teetotalism will be attained at a
bound. The experience of Mas
sachusetts and Maine is reassur-
ing on this point, however, and
if people in these steady New
England states would and did
get drunk notwithstanding the
nominal absence of liquor, what
wonderful achievements in this
line may we not expect from the
rugged and heterogeneous pop
ulation of western border
statee
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The Capitol Lands.

The capital land board, COM
posed of the governor, comp
troller. land commissioner and
secretary of the state held a
meeting at the governors office
on Tuesday TO receive Col.
Norton's report and value the
land. The conclusion reached
was that, as a whole, the three
million acres should be held at
50 cents an acre. Propositions
to take the whole and build a
million-and-a-half dollar capitol
are promised; and the appraise.-
ment was fixed as stated. If
no proposition, satisfactory to
the board is made, then the
lands will be valued in detail,
for sale in less quantities. Col.
Norton's report of the lands was
very satisfactory and it is not
likely that the board will
consent to accept an offer to
furnish a building for the whole
unless upon plans and speci6-
cations definite and binding.
Some members of the board
think the lands will be sold al
together in a very short time,
and the building will be COM
pleted in short order. Commits
sioners to superintend the build
ing have been appointed.
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ADRIAN S. HEWITT, ofthe ma
tional democratic executive
committee has written and pub
lished a letter in which he de-
tends himself from the charges
made against him, in the Gar
field Chinese letter case, by
Judge Davis, and in which he
criticises the judge very severe
ly.. The democratic national
executive committee also pub
lish a statement in which they
say that neither the committee,
nor any subcommittee thereof
has ever. taken any action in re-
gard to the Morey or Chinese
letter.
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GEN. HAMPTON has written a
letter in which he says he re-
CARDS it as very important, es-
pecially to the south, that the
democratic party should retain
its organization. He says he
regards the presidential detection
as settled, and would oppose
any action looking to a contest
on mere technical grounds, as
revolutionary. In this opinion
we think Gen. Hampton is cor
rect.
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BRADsTREEr's journal of trade
finance and political economy,
of November sd, says: "The
steady growth of shipments of
-four from this country to Great
Britain is attracting attention
abroad. The Pail Mall Gazette
of October 81, remarklng on
the purchase of $1,000 sacks of
-four from the United States the
proceeding week, infers that tie
incease of shipments must cause
English millers anxiety. The
number of new mills erected in
this country are taken as evil
dence conclusive that our mil
lers are intent on pushing the
Hour trade with England. The
proximity of wheat and water
the cheapest motive power, to
the American producers offiour,
are not the only special advan-
tages enjoyed by them over the
foreigners with whom they COM
pete. Weight for weight, flour
is worth more than wheat, and
is, therefore, the better enabled
to bear the cost of transporta-
ton. The English journal quo
ted concludes with the view
that the English miller is des-
tined to feel the effect Of Amer
lean competition quite as Sc
verely as the English farmer or
manufacturer "
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We perceive by the BRENNAN
BANNER of the 18th inst, that
the statements of our corrres-
pondent from that town, in
reference to frauds having been
committed by the democrats in
the recent elections have been
fatty contradicted, and that he
himself has been subjected to a
personal attack in consequence
of said statements. We think
that under the circumstances
our correspondent should make
good the truth OF his assertions
or frankly withdraw them.
We expect no less from him.
Houston Post.
IT now remains to be seen
what course will be pursued by
F. D. Jodon, the correspondent
in question. Here, where he is
best known, his statements
need no refutation.
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SIMON CAMERON, the well
known ex-senator of Pennsyl-
vania, is a printer, publisher and
editor, having early in life fol-
lowed that business. He retir-
ed from the printing business
with $4,000 more than forty
years ago, and going into poll
tics has made an immense for
tune, which is something that
very few politicians have been
able to do.
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The St. Louis Republican of
a recent date says that a change
of a little more that 10000 votes
would have given Hancock a
majority in the electoral college
and change of twenty-five thous-
and votes would have given
Hancock 22S votes and Garfield
I4I. While these figures are
not very consoling they show
the value of a few votes, a
change of $4,000 in the total
vote OF the United States is APP
parently a small thing yet it
has elected Garfield.
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Forty members of the Aus
tin bar assembled at the court
house in that city last Saturday
and elected Col. ]. w. Robson
special district judge to preside
until the close ofjudge Turner's
term
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The New York World stig-
matizes Judge Davis attack
on Mr.. Hewitt as extraordinary
and unprecedented, and says
had he used such language off
the bench he, Davis, would
properly be denounced as a
backyard. Mr.. Hewitt's char
acter has never been impeach-
ed, and he still believes that
Garfield signed the Chinese let
ter.
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The BRENNAN reporter for
the Galveston News telegraphs
to his paper that the charges Of
bulldozing made by the Hous-
ton Posts BRENNAN correspond
ent, are false in every particu-
lar
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-18

TEXAS is a state of wonders
and the place to look for big
things political as well as natur-
al. Whenever the republicans
get to Dragging of any particu-.
larly notable achievement of
theirs, Texas is sure to meet the
brag with something bigger in
the democratic line. It has giv-.
en- Hancock a bigger majority
than any. state in the Union,
Iowa not accepted, has given
Garfield, and has cast into the
shadow of insigniicance the
Kansas congressional district
that has been Boosting of a ma
jority Of 1900, by rolling up a
matter of 10000 majority for
one of ITS democratic candidates
for congress.-St. Louis Re
publican.
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TIE official count of the vote
of some of the counties in the
state was made by the county
judges on Saturday last, but in
a majority of the counties it
was deferred till Monday the
18th.
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The official count of Milan
county gives Shepard a major
ity of only sos instead of over
1909 as was confidently calcu-
lated upon.
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IT is predicted by some ofthe
newspapers that Garfield will
be as day in the hands of Grant,
Conkling, Blaine, Logan & Co,
corruptionists.
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AT Calvert, the home of Gen.
Hannah, there we're fifteen
hundred votes polled, the Gen.
receiving only one hundred Of
them.
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The Caldwell Register of last
week contains the veledictory
Of Messrs. Longino & Lemons
who having had newspaper
glory enough retire from the
field. The Register will be
continued by other parties.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-11-18

The municipal election in ST.
Louis does not take place till
April next, yet there are numer-
Gus candidates feeling for Office.
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The American consul at
Zurich is already alarmed be-
cause Of the present immigra-
ton to the United States. He
sees that one-ffth ofthe popula,
ton of America is already COM
posed of foreigners; that if this
proportion continues there will
be 100000 in twenty years.
He is afraid there will be no
America except in name.
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N0dce in 4
r,lr srsTzA

LIE - 4
To the Sheriff, or d
ington county, G
U0U are hereby
IL FOR twenty days
ner, 4 newspaper pnhl;
county, The following no
TIE STATE cF 1'E71sa 8
To an persons
Il. 3foidcnhAncr, 4
Mrs. Emma Nd
Ink Of said estate,
court Of Washing q
count with The estate Of i'll
dec d, which viii be heard I
Of the county court ci sei'
mencing On The li1rd Mon
Der, 1880, at the COURTEOUS
city Of Brenham, a which
interested in said estate n
contest said application, if /
Herein, fail not. under
law, and Of this writ make !
sued the 18th day Of Octod
Witness, Fl. n. Levi
l. 6. Court and the seal II
in the city Of Brennan
Of October, 1886.
II. nj
Clerk County Court, -
By CT. Herbsi, depu
l hereby certify that
going is a true and 81
original citation now in i
0. q
nov3w2od Coz
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

THE democratic majority in
Maryland is only 1919.
The democratic majority in
Missouri is about 5000.
HILL county elected a full
set of democratic officers.
DIPHrHERIA prevails as an ep-
idemic at Petersburg, Va.
THE greenback party is said
to be too dead to skin. Let it
be buried hide and all.
DR.. BEMss has withdrawn
his resignation as a mellber OF
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The Democrats of Oregon
have elected a governor, al
though they lost the electoral
vote.
Missouri and Texas claim to
be the champion democratic
states in the presidential race
this year.
SERENADEs are common in
Denison; the brass band seren-
AIDED six family residences in
one night.
a GALVESTON grocery house
has about completed arrange
ments to import coffee direct
from Rio.
Mr.. JOHN FINNEY, an able
and well known lawyer of
Louisiana, died at New Orleans
last Sunday.
SENATOR BAYARD' opposes
any straining of the constitu-
tional method to decide a pres
idential contest.
JUDGE DAVIS publishes an ex-
PLANTATION in regard to the de-
cision he rendered in the Chi
nese letter case.
WASHINGTON county will be
well and ably represented in the
next legislature by J.E. Gray
and Harry Haynes.
Work an the LAGRANGE tap
railway IS processing. The La
Grange Journal expects the
road by the Ist of January.
The LaGrange Journal says
the Welsh & Sands circus which
recently visited that city was a
complete and perfect humbug.
OK the Philip trial for libel
Gen. Garfield will be made a
witness, and will be confronted
with the original Chinese letter.
The Galveston Journal of
Commerce of last week publish
es a map of the United States
showing the principal railroads.
THE British ship Texas ar
rived at New Orleans on Satur-
day with SO immigrants, IS of
whom left Immediately for Tex
as.
THE Sherman Chronicle in
dulges in Saturday night talk
to the boys and advises them to
keep out of the jail and Gala
boose.
The potato crop in the north
ern states has proved a partial
failure and consequently prices
high, choice potatoes are worth
90 cents.
JOSEPH E. BROWN has been
elected United States senator
by the Georgia legislature. The
vote stood Brown I46; A. r.
Lawton, 81.
The aristocracy of Fifth
avenue, New York, will proba-
bly, be improved by the addi-
ton of U. S. Grant for a part
of the winter.
The Houston Post thinks
that Galveston needs deep wa
ter and that Capt. Eads is right
in his idea that it can be had by
private enterprise.
The national convention of
the boot and shoemakers of the
United States is in session at
Philadelphia. About 500 dele
gates are in attendance.
The Austin Review says a
cotton picking machine has
been invented and is on cXhi-
bition there. The Review thinks
the machine will prove a sue
cess.
THE Fort Worth Democtat
says the NJ. K. and T. road will
be put through to that point,
from Gainesville, within the
next 100 days. Dallas will
have to look to her Iaurells.
THERE will be three editors
in the next legislature viz;
Paddock, of the Fort Worth
Democrat, Foster, of the Lime
stone New Era, and Martin of
the Gainesville Register.
THE Bastrop Advertiser of |
last week publishes a column
communication on strikes and
strikers. Texas has been free
from strikes, save an occasional
strike in a newspaper office.
THE other day at New Or
leans Messrs. o. Peyroux and
Charles Vigner repaired to the
live oaks near the Barracks fof
Ne purpose Of fighting duel.
sy)iired at each other and
after which they made
IA
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DENNIS KEARNEY, of sand lot
fame, has stepped down and off
the political stage. He deliv-
cred a farewell speech in San
francisco few days ago in
which he said he had sacrificed
his all in the cause Of the peo-
pie and they had now turned
and stoned him. He said he
was compelled to seek a iveIi-
hood for his family. The New
Orleans Times says feelingly
that dennis is a busted blad-
der" Before Dennis took to
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There is no precise amount
of wheat to be sown per acre
no rigid, inaexible rule to be
followed, any more than in'the
application of manure or an ar
tiRcial fertilizer. Much de-
ponds upon the soil; if it be rich
deep, and clean of weeds, the
amount Of seed need not be
great. Mr.. Mech, of England
advocates thin sowing: he used
only three pecks per acre; but
his land is in high culture, thor
oughly drained and clean of all
weeds, and every grain strikes
its roots deep.
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The Texas conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church
will convene at BRENNAN on the
18th of December, and will be
presided over by Bishop Pief
who is well known throu9hd
the church as one of thet abb
and most eloquent divihe5
the denomination. Atthis
the conference year closes q
new appointments viii be NAL
but there is, slight possibill
of any change being paa1
the Houston mfrt=teE
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The VI


Inc New
mat a crop Fl
cay the arr
TINS eouN
an'opnting
slsna a;,.H
quite
clese es1i
demand ior
inc crop
country wiz
ooo' 600 bush
and export IS
ana acford'ngi
DC even grea
dence as til
ion OF the ioreigI
conflicting and
than It was soT
in short the
justify 4 con
as much as q
els OF wheat
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The Galveston News and the
Houston Telegram and the Post
of Saturday each contain near
ly a column description Of the
hanging of Warren Shepard,
colored, aged 81, at Montgom-
cry in this ste for the murder
of - suimch ISIS.
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The Waco Telephone says
that at the Herndon plantation,
Robertson county, one Mayes,
guard deliberately murdered
Dudley Clark, a convict. Maycs
ran off. This case needs a
searching official investigation.
Ieflng cOnV,ts for fun
All not be tnlarntnd
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Building
FARMING LAM

l offer for sale at a
she Graham tract, o.
BRENNAN Courthouse
post, plank anlr
beautiful buiIdH
city, and the bes
FIVE miles Of The
easy walking dist
Also the farm
two miles west
with 5 coed tenal
proyements, besid
containing zzS aci
Also several tra
lent to town, and
JEFF
October IS, ISS
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field
hitting nla
think it ne
commit.
with snalIs
dence, it
conclusively
Philip hadu
ion
Sro,,e
as .'.e
- =,
;tfsv
nress
wrote &.
reasons ~
| forc;blv
, 1880-09-17

RAPID RAILROAD BUILDING.--On
the 22d Of August the builders Of
the Southern Pacific Railroad had
successfully surmounted all the OBJ.
stacles met in the Dragon Mount
aims, and on the 25th commenced a
lively race for Ell Paso, over 200
miles from the end of the track,
which il is intended to reach in 100
working days, or possibly few days
over. On the Gath inst there were
12,200 feet of steel rails laid; on
the 25th l1,600; on the 26th 12,S00,
over two miles, and the greatest dis.
tance ever laid in one day by the
Southern Pacific; and on the 9th
$4,000 feet. At this rate the CON-
pany will reach Ell Paso by Christ
mas. The road is now completed
and in running order 1ll3 miles
from Trcson, or 654 miles from Ben
son. 1t is now 244 miles from the
boundary line of New Mexico, which
will be reached in ~ days. Since
January 26, 1880, the company has
built and put into complete and first
class running order 175b miles Of
steel rails.