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Indictments.

| Under existing laws it is diff
ficult for county attorneys and
grand juries to find bills Of in-
dictment in crimidal cases that
will stick. 1t will be remember
ed that the Rothschild case was
once dismissed. on account Of
the manner in which the indict-
ment was found. Ithas become
a common practice to find flaws
and informalities in indictments,
frequently causing continuances
in cases, and, if we are not mis-
taken, the court of appeals has
reversed criminal cases because
of defective indictments. That
the law was deficient in this par
ticular has for some time been
apparent. Senator Holman,
himself a lawyer, has instroduc-
ed in the Senate a bill entitled
can Act to Prescribe the Re-
quisites of Indictments in GER
tain cases." Section provides:
THAT an indictment for any
offense against the penal laws
of this state shall be deemed
sufficient, which charges the
commission Of the offense in or
binary and concise language, in
such manner as to enable per-
son of common understanding
to know what is meant, and with
that degree of certainty that will
enable the court, on conviction,
to pronounce the proper judg-
ment: and in no case are the
words force and arms" or "con-
trary to the form of the statute"
necessary. The bill provides
forms Of indictment for various
ofenses, that for murder being
SO simplified as not to require
more than a dozen lines.
We think this bill, or one sim
liar in its provisions, should be
passed.
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The Galveston Journal is sor-

THE Galveston Journal is sor-
ry to see that Mr.. Labatt intro
duces a bill for the repeal OF
the Sunday law. MIR. Labatt
wants the old Sunday law re-
stored. As it now stands the
law is a dead letter, practically,
though an occasional justice of
the peace in different portions
of the state takes a moral view
of the law for the purpose OF
pocketing the costs. Only this
and nothing more. The Sun
day law allows the running OF
railway trains and the working
of men and horses by livery
stables, also stage driving. The
idea that the law is any protec-
ton to laborers is, beyond any
doubt, a farce.
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A WRITER on the Houston
Post takes grounds in favor of a
stringent game and fish law for
this state. 1t is to be hoped
that. when the members of the
legislature have had surfeit of
introducing bills that the game
law will be taken up and amend
ed SO as to prevent the wanton
destruction of game and fish out
of season.
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GROCERIES,.

The very rapid increase of my
sales for the past two years
doubling in amount each year,
Is the best evidence that this is
really the foremost distributing
market for Groceries in Texas
Such a satisfactory result, in the
face ofthe sharpest competition,
from strong and influential rlval
markets, is certainly guatan-
tee that am able to offer very
positive advantages.
VIM. D. CLEVELAND.
COTTON FACTOR 6 WHOLESALE GROCER,
Aug. 10. 'so-dwew. HOUSTON.
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The Statesman fully approx
es the bill offered for the estab-
lishment OF a state reformatory
for persons under the age of
seventeenyears. Such an. instr
tuticn is certainly one of the ur-
gent needs of the state. The
sending of boys of seventeen
years and under to the peniten-
tiary is more calculated to make
hardened criminals of them
than it is to reform them.
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ABOUT 2:3o on the morning
of the 18th, one of the tanks at
the Atlanta oil refinery at Point
Breeze, near Philadelphia, ex-
ploded with terrific force, and
burning oil was scattered in ev-
cry direction; the conclusion
broke windows mile distant,
and the flames spread rapidly.
The loss was quite large.
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The New Orleans Times says
the state and municipal reven-
ues fail TO meet the reasonable
expenses ofgoyernmenti in Lou
isiana and in the city of New
Orleans. 1t says there are two
causes for this condition of af-
fairs: one the low rate of assess
ment, the other failure to assess
at all. 1t cites two instances,
one where piece of property
assessed at $4,000 was sold for
$4,000, and two stocks of
goods recently destroyed by
fire, which were assessed at sI3,-
600 and insured for SIS 900 =
In most states the assessment of
personal property is the SUM
bling block in the way of the
assessors.
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THE SanAntonio Freie Presse
renounces republicanism as far
as San Antonio is concerned.
and says: "To hell with a party
that will not fight when the oc-
casion calls for it" The Cas-
troville Quill adds that that
place is the only one on which
the Freie Presse has any claims,
or to which it can invite its
friends.
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A WRITER on the Tylor DEM
ocrat discusses the fence ques-
ton and gives figures in proof OF
his position. He says that the
fences in Smith county cost
100000 and that the annual re-
pairs cost about IL I-2 per cent,
or in other words new fence
is required every eight years.
He argues that this immense in
vestment is simply for the pur-
pose of protecting the farms
from a few COWS, hogs and hors-
es that run on the range. The
dea advanced is, that it would
be much cheaper to keep up the
stock and dispense with the
fencing.
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The representative ola New
York house was in St. Louis
the other day for the purpose.
Of interesting merchants in a
scheme to test the validity Of
the license laws passed by a
number of states by which a
heavy license IS required of
agents of merchants and manu-
facturers situated in other
states. The design ofthe gen.
tleman is to get himself arres--
ted in Texas and = take the
case to the supreme court Of
the United States for final adj
Indication.
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seems to be towards a CONSOLE
dalton of capital, and however
strongly the capitalists may de-
ny it, consolidation of capital
means monopoly, and monopo-
lies, as a general thing, means
an oppression Of the people as a
mass. How monopolies can be
prevented and the people at
large protected is a subject wor-
thy Of the consideration OF our
statesmen and political econo-
mists. The latest monopoly is
the consolidation of the three
great telegraph companies the
!. Western Union, the American
Union, and the Atlantic and
Pacific. The three companies
represent a capital of $50, ooo,-
600 and control the entire tele-
graph business of the United
States. This corporation is now
one of the largest in the coun-
try, as well as one of the most
profitable. The cotton exchange
in New York has taken the ini-
tiatory steps to organize new
telegraph company, and if it
does SO it will have to expend
an enormous sum of money, as
well as encounter many difficult
ties in the construction Of its
lines, as the Western Union
owns the lines all along the rail-
way lines. A number Of oppo-
sition lines have, at various,times
been started, but all have ended
in consolidation with the Wes-
tern Union, which is strong
enough to swallow all opposi-
ton. If a giant combination is
SO disposed it can cheaper pri-
ces and do a large and pro6ta-
Bile business; or if can be dicta-
tory and exacting, charging I'M
reasonable rates for services
rendered. Corporations are said
to De soulless, and the saying
is generally true.
The people and the corpora
tions have a difficult problem to
solve: there is hardly a man who
would not be a monopolist were
it in his power to do so. The
final result will be legislation
against monopolies, both by
state and national governments.
The problem must be solved
peacefully and legally. Com
munism and labor strikes ac-
complish nothing; they simply
result in a wanton destruction
of property and a great loss of
time, as well as money to the
strikers, and distress and suffer-
ing to innocent women and chill
dren. There is not a strike on
record that has accomplished
any good in the long run, or
that has not cost the strikers
more than they gained. The
doctrine of the commune is still
more pernicious. Ifall the pro-
perty in the country was diyid-
ed out equally among the pop
ulation, it would not be a year
before the larger portion of it
was again controlled by a few.
There has, ever since mankind
was civilized, been rich men and |
poor ones; it was even so with
The savages: the head men and
the chiefs have the lions share.
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Did you ever know any per-
sor " be II without inaction of
tbs ssomach, liver or kidneys,
or I'd you ever know one who
wa well when either was OBJ
str cted or inactive; and did
yo' ever know or hear of any
Gas y the kind that Hop Bit
ter you'd not cure? Ask your
neis hbor this same question.
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ADVERTISING seems to be re-
duced to science, in the liter
al meaning of that word. A
dealer in patent medicines at
Rochester, N. Y, has erected
an astronomical observatory,
and is now engaged in publish
ing to the world the result of
observations made, coupled with
the virtues of the nostrums turn
ed out in his medicine shop
Many Of the newspapers are in
nocently advertising this medi-
cal astronomical concern, and at
the same time, are under the
impression that they are giving
their readers items of news.
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NEAR LaPeirre, Mich, Mrs.
Curtis, the wife of a Baptist
preacher was assailed by a Mrs.
Barnard, who knocked her
down, poured gasoline over her
and set fire to her clothing.
Mrs. Curtis died from her injur-
les. Mrs. Barnard is supposed
to be crazy from religious ex-
element.
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How many Of the legislators
violated the Sunday law by
drinking whiskey in the saloons
of Austin and not hearing the
ADMINISTRATIONS Of the bell
punch on last Sunday. lis said
that the Sunday law is a dead
letter at the capital and that
the crank of the bell punch is
as rusty there as it is in other
towns ofthe state
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17sh Legislature.

land have been sold for taxes
and bought by the state, twelve
months in which to redeem
same.
By Gooch: Bill to reduce
the ad valorem state tax to 40
| cents on the hundred dollars.
BY Stubs: Bill to make
warehouse receipts available as
collateral security for advances
by banks, etc.
The resolution regarding the
port of Galveston was passed
unanimously.
BY Henderson: Bill making
important changes with refer
ence to continuances in crimi-
al cases.
The senate concurred in the
house amendments appropriate
ing 500, 900 for mileage and per
diem OF members.and employees,
and $4,000 for contingent ex-
penses.
House. The finance COM
mittee reported iavorably on
the senate bill making appro-
priations for mileage and per
diem of members and for con-
tingent expenses.
The two houses met in joint
session and completed the
count of the vote for governor
and lieutenant governor. The
result for governor was: Rob-
erts l66,IoI; Davis o4,3S2;
Hannah 33,72I. For lieuten-
ant governor, Story I77,oIo,
Seimering 63,o66; Owens 3o.-
s3s.
Mr.. McComb, from the spe-
cial committee, reported a pro-
gramme for the Inauguration of
the governor next Tuesday,
in the hall Of the house of rep
resentatives.
By Gould: To exempt prop
erty used in manufacturing
purposes from taxation.
By Tankersly: Making an
appropriation for erecting a
monument at the capital to
General Houston; also, bill
to appropriate $4,000 for a
reformatory for persons under
seventeen years of oge.
A resolution was introduced
endorsing Mr.. Reagan's inter-
state commerce bill.
By Paddock: A bill TO pro-
vide for the confinement in the
state lunatic asylum, of persons
acquitted of crime upon the
plea of insanity.
Mr.. Fenton introduced a bill
to require al convicts to be con-
fined in the state penitentiary
after September l, 1881.
A number Of other bills were
introduced.
Austin, Jan. ~ Senate
Memorial of ]. ]. Humphreys,
one of the Mier prisoners, ask
ing relief; referred.
Among the bills and resolu-
tons introduced were the fol-
lowing:
Bill to repeal the act creating
the nffice of public weigher.
Joint resolution to amend the
constitution with reference to
suffrage. The resolution re-
quires all voters to be able to
read and write,
Bill to amend Penal Code to
the effect that in murder
trials the plea Of temporary !
insanity shall be no defense |
when produced by drunken
ness.
Bill providing for the appoint
ment af public weighers by
commissioners courts.
Bill for the relief of persons
whose property has been sold
for state taxes, passed to en-
grossment.
The governors special mes
sage on the school fund loaned
to railroads was received and
referred.
Ajoint resolution was intro
duced amending Article VII of
the constitution relating to the
school law, and making the
scholastic age from 6 to IS, also
a superintendent of
public schools and establishing
= uniform system of schaols
throughout the state.
House The speaker an
bounced the standing commit
tees.
Mr.. Gray was made chairman
IF the committee on Manufac-
:urers and Commerce.
Mr.. Haynes was put on sew
.ral copmitties.
The counrntttee IN Dr;pt;pp
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The Dallas Herald says that
the people of that city would
be willing to tax themselves
thirty-seven and a half cents on
the hundred dollars for the pur-
pose of building new and
suitable school house, the pres
ent buildings being wholly I'M
suited to the purpose.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

!
THOMAS c. PLATT is to be the
next United States senator from
New York.
THERE are 10000 persons
employed in the United States
Postal service.
FIFTEEN million acres of Gov
ernment lands were sold during
the last fiscal year.
The latest news from Sitting
Bull is to the effect that he is
willing to surrender.
The Jefferson limp proposes
advertising for sale the accounts
of delinquent subscribers.
The Miners bank vault at
Fredericksburg, Va, was robbed
Of $50, 900 few days ago.
The Houston free schools
have an enrolment of 1886 and
an average attendance OF o45.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, has just
elected democratic mayor. The
democratic party is not dead.
FRED WINrz, president of the
New Orleans city railroad, has
been indicted for ENLIGHTENMENT.
THOMAS +. BAYARD was re-
elected United States Senator
from Delaware, on the 18th inst.
In the United States court at
Tyler a man was convicted of
illegally selling manufactured to-
bacco.
CRIME increased in the claw
and order" city of Philadelphia,
last year, eleven per cent. over
1879.
ACCORDING to the census re-
turns Dallas county has the
largest population in the state,
viz: 53,4oo.
Mrs. BRUCE, wife ofthe color
ed senator from Mississippi, at
tended a recent reception at the
white house.
THERE are over 100000 per-
sons on the pension list, to whom
the Government paid $4,000
900 last year.
IT is estimated that the pro-
ductlon of gold IN this country
in 1880 was s32,522, 1872, and of
silver, S4o.oo5,5o4.
Mr.. Cox has introduced an
apportionment bill in the house.
The number of representatives
for Texas is fixed at 10. 'sc
A FIRE at Durham, N. C.,
on last Saturday destroyed
twenty-five stores, though most
of the goods were saved.
The Dallas Times tells what
it knows about the national in
debtedness. 1t wants the debt
paid as soon as possible.
SENATOR MAxEY is not mix
ing indiscriminately with the
people at Austin. He did not
attend the governors levce.
IT is reported in New York
that the committee on ways and
means will repeal the tax on
bank deposits and check stamps.
AN effort is being made at
Washington to have Gen. Ord
put on the retired list with the
rank and pay of major-general.
AccoRING to the Galveston
News the name of Governor
Roberts figures extensively in
connection with the senator
ship.
A YOUNG MAN, a stranger, in
New Orleans went into res
taurant and after eating a hear
ty meal shot himself through the
heat. .G
A BALLOT was taken at Har-
risburg, on the 18th, for United
States senator; there were three
candidates: Oliver, Grover and
Wallace.
BILLS have been introduced
looking to the construction of
lines of telegraph by the gov
eminent as protection against
monopolies.
The superintendent of the
Galveston Wharf company had
a large force of hands at work
last Sunday. How is that for
Sunday law.
OLD settlers predict an early
spring and good year for crops
generally, says the Bellville
Times. We hope the old set
Hers are correct.
The News and the Post both !
have specials from Marshall. In )
he News Maxey is the favorite /;
Ior senator; in the Post Throck- |
norton is the man. I
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IF Mr.. Paddock's bill to con-
fine.criminal lunatics in the in
sane asylum becomes a law, as
it unquestionably should, muir
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II is stated at Dallas that Jay
Gould has wiredIhis hnalprcpo-
sition'looking to the control of
the Gull, Colorado and Santa
Fe road to its officials. He
proposes aggressive measures
if his terms are not acccded to.
tits also announced at Dallas
that the Santa Fe road will
cross the Texas and Pacific at
AbeIine.
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The New York cotton cx-
change is becoming alarmed at
the telegraphic consolidation
and at a meeting held last Sat
uiday committee was apPoinr
ted confer with the other ex-
changes throughout the eeun-
try, with a view to establishing
a new mercants' telegraph COM
pany. aea aaa
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employing y Persons.

The narrow gauge road is to
be completed to Waco by May
s4th and win be pushed on to
Mexico and the Pacific coast.
& branch road will also connect
with Galveston. The city coun-
Gil OF Waco has granted right
Of way through south Waco.
The company has a capital Of
S6.oooo.ooo or 5000, 900. 81.
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The Houston Age thinks the
legislature will not meddie with
the occupation tax law as the
farmers of Texas are nov bear
ing as large a proportion Of the
as they car well bear.
question of e7aaiion S a
1tty one; but few per-
y any taxes if
- al e-aat
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The newest monopoly is a
match syndicate, with a capital
of S2,5oo,ooo, and headquarters
at New Haven, Con. Ten large
factories have been consolida-
ted, with the intention of con-
trolling the American market.
They pay the government 49,
100000 per annum for stamps.
THE New Orleans Times ap-
pears to be of the opinion that
the Reagan interstate COM
merce bill will prove a failure.
If passed, its constitutionallty
will be questioned and it would
be several years III reaching a
decision in the supreme court
which alone can pass on it.
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INNER


There is a wide difference
between Texas and Rhode Is
land in the Manufacture Of cot
ton fabrics. Rhode Island has
1924 looms employing aa,22S
persons. Texas has II looms
employing u persons.
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SENATOR PLUMB, of Kansas,
has introduced in the Senate
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= fraudulent $1,000 bond
of the city of Denison, purport-
ing to have been issued in 1873
has found its way to a bank in
that city. More of them are
out and the city council offers a
reward for the discoeery of the
man who issued them.
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Wood River Correspondence.
BELLEVUE, June 4, 1SSl

BELLEVUE, June z, 1851.
FRIEND PERRY Your letter was duly re-
ceived. Tell Harmon / receive the papers
he sends, and they keep me we'll posted.
Rube Egleston and Pete Anderson arrived
here last Saturday, and left for Galena the
next day, where they are interested in
mines. l nave bought into a blacksmith
shop here, and we are fixing up for bust
ness. There does not seem to be much
to do in this line yet; how it will turn out
ia hard to tell. / have travelled over q
great deal OF the country, and can't say
am very favorably impressed. There is
mineral everywhere in small veins, and
very rich, but whether 1t will go down,
time only can tell. / hear that Chris.
Malatesta Is making 500 a day. II so, /
can't see II. I don't think there is a sa-
loon in tow making half that amount.
All the money here is that brought in by
new corners, and you can bet your bottom
dollar that they hold a mighty tight grip
on it. DIR. A.C. Bishop will leave for Eureka
in two or three days. He can post you on
this country. i think it is overrated for
this Summer. Tell our friends to stay
where they are, unless they want to follow
prospecting for a livelihood. Frank Cleve-
land is doing nothing. John Murphy is
about to open his chebang, and is o little
disguised. Mrs. Gillespie is keeping a
lodging house, and doing well. Meals,
so cents; lodgings, on the floor, so cents.
They say the fish will only bite here in the
Fall Of the year. Truly HAYES.
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Carson,s Heavy Man.

Carson Appeal Yesterdays Reno Jour
nal contained an item to the effect that
George Tufy of this city was no longer
the heaviest man in the State. but that
Nels Hammond of Reno WA the heaviest
man Of the s~agebrush. Yesterday an APP
peal reporter called at the Savings Bank
and found Mr.. Tufy with the Journal in
his hand very much excited. He read the
Journal item; it surprised and astonished
him. He had taken the paper regularly
and paid his subscription for four years.
He was at a loss to understand why an at
tempt should be made to belittle him. ga
town don't amount to much without q fat
man." said he, swinging round his chair
that the reporter might see him to good
advantage. Look at the money I have
squandered for the sake of Carson. Only
the highest kind OF living and the best
brands Of wine can put a man in this on
dition. / know Hammond; he's only q
shrimp. He paid the Journal to put the
item in. Some day I'm going down to
Reno without my corsets."
"Corsets " exclaimed the scribe.
"Oh yes; I wear corsets to fool people.
Some day a man will want to bet that !
don't measure IL feet around the waist.
I'll unloose my corsets and win the bet.
Few people realize how big I am when I'm
let out"
Some day Mr.. Tufy will call On Senator
Powning, of the Journal, and he will
think that the Asylum building Is on top
of him.
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More Bodie Newspapers.

One good newspaper in q town is q
benefit to the place. In the Free Press
Bodie can boast Of as good a newspaper
as any town of its size on the coast. 1t
is we'll edited, takes the Geographic dis
patches, and its advertising columns be-
speak the. business prosperity of the
town. Two other newspapers are
about to be started. This will give the
town three poor newspapers where it now
has one good one. The three papers com-
bined will not be as good as the Free Press
Is now. The Appeal reporter Is informed
by q gentleman just from Bodie
that the business men have de-
termined to give no encouragement
to the new papers. They do not
care to be called upon each month to
pay for advertising in three different news
papers. 1t costs three times as much
money and brings no corresponding in
come. One good established paper is
quite enough for any town OF the size Of
Bodie, and doubtless the parties about to
start in opposition to the Free Press will
discover this before the next snow
flies. Several papers have already died
in Bodie and it seems strange that these
mortuary lessons are not needed by men
who imagine that they are able to occupy
. field already well filled.