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Com mission of Appeals.

Houston, East and West Texas rail-
way vs., Grlmstead; from Harris
cOunty.-AlthOugh the application for
continuance might not be in strict
compliance with the statute, yet,
being addressed to the discretion OF
the court, and an abuse clearly appear
ing because the desired evidence was
both material and probably true, a
new trial should have been granted.
In considering dHmages against Il rail-
road caused by d defective road bed,
only such sum can be recovered as, III
the judgment of the jury, would COM
penSate Tie plaintiff; and his age,
probable duration of lif and his
ability to perform before and after the
injury. anu the mutual anguish and
mental suffering are to be considered,
Reversed and remanded.-Watts, j.
Tudor VS.. Mays ct al; from Lamar
county-Although not specifically as
signed, yet errors going to the foun-
dation of the action should be consid-
cred. [46 Texas, 5l.l The only diff
ference between the rights of wife
and husband to their interest in the
community property, is that the hus-
band has control over the wife's inter-
est during his life. A disposition of
her interest by her husbands will
could only be rendered effective by
her election to take under it. A judy
ment in favCr of or against minor,
not represented by guardian or next
friend, is not void and can only be
avoided 10y judicial proceeding. So
far'as the record shows the judgment
ought to be reversed and remanded.-
Watts, J.
Moody s. Jemison VS.. Levy ct al;
from Gonzales county.-The sole
question in this case turns upon the
action of the lower court in quashing
the affidavit for attachment, because
it stated that this attachment is
not sued out for the purpose of injur-
ing and harrasing defendants" Held,
There was no error in the courts &C
ton. The statute. in the phase used,
intended more than mere redundant
expression signifying another phase
of that which was embraced in the
first part. The plaintiff must make
affidavit that his purpose is not to in
jure the defendant in the sense of in
ducing damage or loss, and he must
swear that the purpose is not to har-
raSS the defendant In the sense that
the word is usually understood. The
court, therefore. properly sustained
motion to quash, because the affidavit
simply stated that it was not the
purpose to both injur e and harrass the
defendant. Affirmed. Opinion of
Walker, 2. j.. adopted.
Atkinson VS.. Ward ct al: appeal
from Gonzales county.-In this case
appellee Ward sued alone, alleging
that with certain heirs he was joint
owner of the land in controversy;
prayed for judgment quieting him in
his possession of the undivided one
third. The verdict was for Ward
alone. therefore judgment was rem
dered in favor of Ward and his joint
co owners. Held. The judgment was
not warranted by the verdict. Ward
alone wis entitled to recover. The
trial being had under the revised stat
utes. under the allegations in the pc
tition Ward could only recover his
undivided ore-third interest. Since
! the revised statutes one can only re-
!
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Developing the Resources
Isoutheast Texan-l

Oar legislature will do great injus-
tice to those parts of our great state
that are without railroad facilities.
and to which railroad enterprises are
pointing, il they enact laws so threat
ening to the interests of the roads rs
to check the work of construction.
Continue to e'railroads and ever 7
other system of internal improve
ms nts every encouragement consist
est with the rights of The people. and
our states resources will be developed,
otherwise they viii not
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reliance on reason, science and COM
mon sense for the vindic-Ition and es-
Establishment of the better WAY.
and run TO the legislature as to a
great engine which will do their work
and save them further trouble, they
make 2 serious mistake; they delude
themselves. they put their cause on a
false foundation and they do the state
a positive injury. For such an injury
Is every law placed on the statute
books which cannot be enforced and
which is not fully endorsed by the
unanimous reason of the people.
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Total .......... l4u, q. Az eJb,9JO.OiO
Maine and Massachusetts imported
some wood from Canada. The rail-
roads used l.97l,Sl3 cords. valued at
S5,i26,7l4; steamboats,, 1882 cords,
valued at Sl,Sl2,0S3. There were uSed
in mining and amalSaInating the
precious metals, 3oS,074 cords, valued
at S2.874.5g3; in other mining opera
tons, 266,77l cords. valued S67S.692.
In the manufacture of brick and tile,
LIS, 522 cords, valued At S3,97S, 1871.
In the manufacture of salt, $40, 44S
cords. valued at Sl,12l,681. . In the
manufacture of syOod. l5S,20S cords,
valued nc S425 ,239. The total con-
sumption is 145.77S,l 1877 cords. valued
1T 1921. 962,273. The consumption OF
charcoal in the twenty largest cities
in the manufacture OF iron and in the
production of the precious metals
amounts To 74,O08,972 bushels, valued
ut 1926 36.
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Notice of Account.

STATE OF TEXAS-To all persons interest
ed In the administration of the estate Of =. IL.
Runkle, deceased: Mrs.J.A. Ten Eyck admins.
traiTix Of the estate OF said decreased, has FL
charge IN the County Court Of Travis county
which will be acted on at the next term OF
said court, commencing the third Monday IN
city OF Austin, at which time all persons Inter
ested In said estate may appear and make OBJ
jectiOns thereto.
witness: Frank Brown, Clerk Of said Court.
and the seal thereof attached, this the 21st
day of February, 1893.
:. - FRANK BROWN. Clerk.
= By JEFF. BROWN, Deputy. mar1-w3t
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The Will of the late Edwin ID. Nor
gan, ex-governor CT New York. gives
his wife Sl,50O.OO0 and his residence,
$4,000 to forty relatives and per-
sonal friends, S7g5,0O0 to various
charities, and the balance of his es-
tate, estimated at about S6.00000O, is
entrusted to his executors for his
gradSon, Edwin D. Morgan. Among
the charitable requests are these
Williams College, Williamstown
100000. subject to reduction
by $4,000 already paid to the
trustees; association for the relief OF
respectable aged, INDECENT females,
S25000; the woman's hospital. $25 GOO;
New York city mission and tract So
ciety, S25, 600; Presbyterian board of
foreign missions, 100000; board of
home missions, $4,000; fund to sup
plement the salaries of clergymen en-
gagged in home missionary work, So
coo: Manhattan eye and ear hospital.
$4,000; Union theological seminary,
$4,000; Presbyterian hospital, $780,
OO0
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Amount of Wood Consumed In 1880.

The census bureau furnishes an in
tereSting estimate of the amount OF
wood consumed as fuel in the census
year 1850. The following was the
consumption tor domestic purposes
10y states. Number of persons using
wood for domestic purposes, $3.50
GA
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"A szaQ - A week made at home by the
" EH industrious. Best business now
III ~ beiOr- the public. Capital not
an y needed. We will start you
- n In Men, women, boys and girls
wanted everywhere to work for
us. Nowis the tine. You can work Ia spare
time, or give your whole time 10 the business
No other business will pay you nearly as well.
No one can fail 10 make enormous pay, hy en-
giging at once. Costly outfit and terms free.
Money mad, last. easily. aud hUnorably.
Address TRUE X CO,
AnQIIsfa MainaL
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a CUR FITS !

When say cure / do not mean merely 70
ZtOp them for time and have them return
again--i mean radical cure. ! have made
the disease of FITS. EPILEPSY or FALL
ING SICKNESS a lifelong study. l warrant
my remedy TO cure the worse cases. Because
others have failed is no reason for not now
receiving a cure. Send al once for treatise
Give Express and PostOfIice. It costs you
nothing for trial. and viii cure you.
Address DR.. II. q. ROOT, 1s3 Pearl St, N. Y
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In the Political Arena.

[Castroville Quill.
ProhibitionistS intend to hold a
convention at Austin in April. If a
prohibition amendment be ratified a
prohibition party willenter the politi-
cal arena.
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a SURE
RECIPE
For Fine Compilations.

Positive reliefand immunity
from complexional blemlshes
may be found In Hagan's Nag:
nolla Balm. A delicate and
harmless article. Sold by drug
gists everywhere.
ltimparts the most brilliant
and life-llke unts, and the cl0-
sest scrutiny cannot detect Its
use. All unsightly discOlora-
tons, erupti0ns, ring marks
under the eyes, sallowaess, red
ness, r0ughness, and the flush
OF fatigue and excitement PRO
Rt once diSpelled BY the Mag
nolla Balm.
1t Is the one Incompatible
Cosmetic.
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CONSUM PTIOM,

I'haye positive remedy tor the above dis
ease; by It's use thousands OF cases Of the
worst kind and Of long standing have been
cured. Indeed, so strong is my faith In its ef-
fcacy. that VIII send TWO BOTTLES FREE.
together with VALUBLE TREATISE on this
-. address, DIR. 7. A. SL0CUM. lsf Pearl
Narr Vorlr
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THE TEXAS SEA PORTS:

Corpus Christi imports, S69.65l /:
exports domestic merchandise, $22S,-
l49: exports foreign merchandise.
S2S.5S2; remaining in warehouse De-
cember 81, 1882, SOL. Galveston inn
ports, $262.9l4; exports domestic mer-
chandise. S4,523.272. No account was
given of the foreign merchandise at
the port. Remaining in warehouse De
cember 81. 1882, $9l, 050. For the
same period the total imports of all
the ports of the entire United States
was S59, sol $50; exports of domestic
merchandise SOC, 1851 ,054; foreign mer-
chandise S2,603,379; remaining in
warehouses, S3l, 245.S00; Brazos De
Santiago imports, $56.3l7; exports do
nestle merchandise, $l20.022; exports
foreign merchandise, S22.411; remain
ing in warehouses December 81. 1882,
$3.50. Compare S4,523,272 with $780,
S57 .O54, and the standing of the lead
ing ports of Texas with all the other
ports in the country will be
ascertained. If the general govern
ment could be pursnaded to expend
the necessary amount of money to
improve the harbor of Galveston, the
same as has been done for other cities.
she would in the next generation
grow to a city the size of Chicago or
st. Louis. There is a vast empire in
the interior to back Galveston, and
she should he enabled to take advant-
age of her position. l.. 5.
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TEXAS PORTS.

In the treasury department special
report on the foreign commerce of
the United States for the six months
ending with the new year, just
printed, we have the following con-
corning the foreign trade done at
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TEXAS INVENTORS.

Charles and Gahbott Armstrong. OF
Galveston. have been granted pat
ent for "a chair for railway-railS; VIII
liam \. AMI e. 5. Hawkins, of Waxa-
haehie. patent car coupler; Edward
q. Horne. of Galloway, cotton gin
hooper; ;lssignor TO Carvin gin and
machine company of Memphis.
George W. Kerby, Boliyer, draft
engineer; Hiram b. Phillips. Pales-
tine, hoop fastener for buckets. cts,
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PASSENGER LISTS.

CARLIN, January 30th.-Passed here to.
day, to arrive in Sacramento tomorrow
d. N. Reed, Chicago; Mrs. Cutting and
daughter, Mrs. H. u. Becker, Samuel
Wetherel, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Fl. Moultop, Sar
Francisco; Mrs. G. G. Bourbon, Swinton,
W.; Colonel H. Brownson, wife aud daugh,
ter, Omaha; Miss Blanche Leighton, Den.
yer; E. j. Billings, Samuel A. Van Praag
Rock Creek, Wy. T.; Travelling Agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway
r. 3. Learn, oakland, CAL; Mrs. Mary A,
Ray and son, Utah; S. Black, Denver
Jesse Coulter, Dakota; G. W. .Littop, Ii
Green, Exc, New; 50 emigrant passengers
including 81 males, to arrive in Sacramento
February LIST.
OMAHA, January 30th.-Lsft here to-day
to arrive in Sacramento February Sd Claus
Spreckels. j. d. Spreckelz, Lewis LiebInan
Mrs. G w. Meachsm, Miss Ida H. Meach
am. E Frye, San Francisco; B. J. Pengra
Springfield, Or; Rev. Arthur Locke and
VIE, Chicago John T. Helmholtz, PbiIa
delpaia; Walter II. Bovey, Madison, Wis.
I. ID. Bellew. Rochester, n. Y.
NEwHALL, Janusry 80 ih.-Passed here TO-
day, to arrive in San Francisco tomorrow
G. w. Slaven and wife, Miss Ida Slavep,
Miss Nellie Slaven, John G. f. SIavep, Dela
Worck. Portland, Or; Mrs. A. Star, Mrs
ham, North Columbia Mis- P. Roberts,
Tombstone J. FL. Gunster, Melbourne J.
M. Griffith and wife, Les Angeles J. W,
Stanbsru, Tucson FL. P. Reese. New York
N. Q. Carter, San Gabriel; VIM. jackson,
San Francisco; L. Frounfeld and wife, New
York; Miss Rosa Hatch, San Francisco
Phineas Bsnning. Wilmington w. Fl. Perry,
James Cusener, Los Angeles A. Robinson,
A. F. Meigs and wife, E. A. Foy, Z. Chase,
H. Mccormick, San Francisco; L. J. I,
eager, Yuma NJ. E. Cooke, Gedingyilla,
Iowa; S. w. McMullen, Port Huron r.
Adams, Knights Ferry G. G. Babcock. NJ.
braska A. Quasi, Pueblo, COL; NJ. B. Kali
lock, San Antonio; a. Bennett, San Beraar
dino B. S. Machado, San jose.
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AN ARRAEr D6MAGoGUs.

Governor Ben. Butler is a chief in DEM
agogy. he urges the Massachusetts, G en-
eral Court to reduce two.thirds of the
State salaries fifty per cent, and cut off
the other third entirely. His own salary,
however, is constitutional, and not to be
touched. He claims that his recommends
ton is in the direction of civil service re.
form, which shows how i'll he compreheuds
that principle. The highest salary paid in
the Bay State is $1,000 to the Supreme
Judges, and the lowest is from 81, 900 to
$1,000 to District Judges prison officers,
normal school teachers, etc. ''There is not
an overpaid of1icial in the list" says the
Salem Register. Economy does not con.
siss in reducing salaries to such plane
that the better. talent will decline to fill
them. Buffers economy has had advo-
Gates in California, who would farm out
offices to the lowest bidder. If the CON-
monweslth expects good servants it must
pay at least liviog salaries. To expect a
lawyer of average competency to fill the
District bench at $3.50 year, or quail
fed teacher to occupy a chair in a normal
school faculty at $500 per annum, are alb.
surdities that only such as Butler can be
guilty of.
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THE ovERsEADoW1sG QUESTION.

No ore who has given attention to the
irrigation debates in committee, now pend.
ing, can fail to be impressed with the fact
that the one question rising superior to all
others now before the Legislature is the
irrigation problem, The meeting last night
made it clear, as one of the speakers put it,
that the agricultural future of this State
depends upon irrigation. 1t was there held
that recognition and maintenance of claims
of riparian ownership, in excess of use of
water for domestic purposes, or the up.
holding of the absolute claims to water
under the law of appropriation, means the
abandonment of all hops for comprehen-
sive system of irrigation. In bills now
pending the claim is made that just and
equal distribution of the waters, according
to the needs of irrigable lands, may be
secured. The means of attaining this
end are varied, the chief being condemna-
ton of and compensation for possible
vested rights; legislative declaration by
the State, in accordance with the Consti.
tuition, that all the water of the State is a
public use; denial that the doctrine of
riparian rights, as defined by the English
common law, applies to California denial
of the doctrine of prior appropriation.
These issues can be adequately treated in
no limited space, but it is sufficient to say
that the subject was never before so clearly
and fully presented to legislative body in
California, and if the present houses shall
rise to the level of its Importance, they will
prove themselves such benefactors that all
their shortcomings will sink into utter in.
significance. TIE statements made by the
State Engineer to the meeting give EN-.
phasis to this conclusion Our average
rainfall in the valleys is less than that in
great irrigation districts of the world.
With comprehensive system the lands
will invite and support population of $50
to the square mile; without it they are
not equal to the support Of ten. The ques.
ton concerns all the interior valleys, with
out exception. No lands like ours will
produce as have ours for twenty years
longer without irrigation. The future of
the State depends upon the ultimate radi-
cal modification of the doctrines held by
riparian owners and appropriations. /"
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WASHINGTON TERRTToRY.
Aid for SufYerers-The sn0qualmfe Pas
A Vacant PastOrate.


A Vacant PsstOraie.
SEATTLE, January 30th.-Six hundred dol
lars were given here last Saturday for the
relief of sufferers by the late floods in Ger.
many.
Men. horses and cattle are crossing the
Cascade mountains by the Snoqualmie Pass
every day. Two droves of cattle came
through last week in fine order from the Kit
titass and Yakima valleys without losing a
single animal. Men ride over from Eilens-
burg, lbs miles distant, in four days-the
time ordinarily made in summer. This is the
first winter an effort was made to keep the
Pass open, and SO little difficulty has been ex-
perienced that its closing will not again be
permitted. The Snoqualmie Pass is the ia.
vored route for railroad communication be-
tween the eastern and western parts of the
Territory.
Rev. J. A. Wirth has resigned the pastor
ate of the First Baptist Church in this city,
and the vacant position has been rendered TO
Rev. ID. j. Pierce, formerly of Portland and
Laramie, but now of Walla Walla.
Casualties at Sea.
PoRT TOWNSEND, January 30th.-The
schooner John +. Miller arrived yesterday,
thirteen days from San Francisco. OFF Cape
Flattery seaman, name unknown, fell over.
board and was drowned The mate Of the
Miller took the hatch off to throw overheard
for the drowning seaman to cling to, but in
so doing missed his footing and fell down the
hatchway, sustaining very serious injuries.
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OREGON.
AdyIces fram Portland.

PORTLAND, January 3Oth.-Ham Boyd,
formerly Mayor of Portland, end for years
one Of the most enterprising ard influential
citizens, was sent to the poor-house to- lay.
Very heavy rains prevailed Yesterday.
There was slide on the o. R. and n. Co.'S
road near Rooster Rock, and the down train
due at 9 o'clock this morning was delayed
eight hours. but the passengers came down by
boat. The evening train for the east did not
start from hsrs. The washouts on the North
ern Pacific viii be repaired by tomorrow.
Very warm rains have occurred in the
Willsmette valley, and the snow in the foot
hills is melting. All the tributaries to the
Willamette are swoller, but no damsge is vet
reported to the east or west side reads and
none is expected.
Cornelius J. Murphy the forger recently
from San Francisco, where he was employed
in the Custom House, has been sentenced to
ten years in the Penitentiary.
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HEAVY GUNs-A very interesting series
OF experiments with armor plates has just
been made in Italy, which shows that
plates can be made hard enough to resist
perforation by any projectile yet made.
The London Standard says THE chilled
iron of the Tregarini. the still stronger
steel of Whitworth, flying with velocity
OF some !, $40 feet a second, have equally
failed to pierce the unyielding metal,
whether French or English, though the
blow delivered by the Armstrong l00-ton
gun has actually been sufficient to drive in
the very strong backing of the plate. -
American Engineer.
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These papers that have descended to the mean
argument, that opposition to the removal of the
mineral cabinet from the Capitol Is actuAted by
hostility to the Mining Bureau, expose their ig-
norNnce of the subject aud their own suspicious aud
ungenerous natures. The col eeaon in the State
Museum at San Francisco is large that it re-
qures an octave volume.of $50 close pages to Gaia
logue the specimens alone The desire IS thai the
little cabinet at the Capitol shall be left there as an
object OF interest to citz who visit the building
1t is safely disposed in hrs-proof building, and
there is no reason whatever for is removal beyond
desire to add it to the collection in the State Mu-
scum, which the State Mineralogst himself certifes
is large and rapidly growing so much SO that all the
specimens have not yet been arranged. The attempt
to antagonze mining interests ia this matter is u-
worthy generous minds.
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HARsHLY JUDGED. There is grocer in
certain small town in this State who has
always been called the stingiest man in
Michigan, and many stories are afoat about
his breaking crackers in two and taking
out pinches of -four to make exact weight.
It seems. however, that he has been harsh
ly judged. A few days ago he had lot
of cranberries displayed at the door, and a
lady pedestrian halted and asked "Are
those fresh?" "Oh, yes" "How much
quart" "Twenty cents, madam. :"
THAT'S ten cents for pint. five cents for
gill, two and half cents for half gill,
and three" "Did you want quart ?"
Oh, no. was reading that corns could
De cured by binding on a split cranberry.
| have two corns, and one berry would an
swer for both. I'll give you a cent for
single berry," Very well-take it along.
Hold on Lists see-let's see-yes, can
do it. I'll throw in an extra berry,
madam, and do both up in parcel. 1 am
bound to please ny customers, if don't
make cent !"-[Detroit Free Press.