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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
BUDGET FROM BEAUMONT
Mayor Vetoed The Purchase q tie Fire
Alarm System.
II WILL NOW Bs Put OUT OF OPERATION,
Fire Chiee says Expense VIII NOT Ne
Longer nornc-sunday Law was
strictly observed.

Beaumont, Texas. January .. Mayor
Wheat has filed with City Secretary Kins
his veto of the action Of the council In
purchasing the electric Are alarm systom.
This purchase was effected at u meeting Of
the council last Wednesday night. The
question Of purchase was referred to q
who recommended that the city
pay the Ruth Weiss hook and ladder COM
cany $500 for the fire alarm system. Too
council adopted tho Recommendation of the
committee. The purchase, however, does
hot meet the approval of tho mayor for
several reasons, tho principal one OF which
Is that the price Is too. high when the
amount already expended by the city 10
taken into consideration. Tho veto will
be admitted to tho next meeting of tie
council and unless two-thirds OF the al-
dermcn vote against It tho contract Of
purchase will be set aside
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
KNUTsFoRD GIVES BOND.

Captain Lewis. master of the British
steamship Knutsford, which was libeled
Saturday, today gave bond In the sum OF
$4,000 for the owners and the vessel was re-
leased from the custody Of the United
States marshal.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10

fceu q cola and y On thro6sR ne eutifs NJ r
remedies. At ali druseists % eents : vial, Z
II you need medical sdvtce write rrof MunSul
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
ISLAND CITYNEWS ITEMS
The Huailn1isa Desl Hes FisaIly Beea
Arranged.
PRINCIPAL POINTS OF the AGREEMENT
Governor saycrs 20 ncturn Home.
city Proposes 10 right II ont
with the Wharf Company.

Galveston. Texas, January 9.--The con.
tract with Coils p. Huntington, prestdcn,
OF the Southern Pacific Railway company
for the ten blocks OF land between Forty.
FIRST and Fifty-irst streets In this city has
been accepted.
The directors OF the Galveston City COM
pany at called meeting today accepted
the contract In all It's terms. A telegram
to this effect will be sent to Mr.. Hunting
tor tomorrow and the further details oi
examining the title. making tho convey
ance, ETC., will be carried out as rapidly
as possible.
The price to be paid for the ton blocks
is 100000. OF this sum $4,000 is to be
paid upon the delivery OF the decd and the
remainder is to be paid in equal INSTALL
ments In one, two and three years. The
contract provides that Huntington shall be-
gin Improvement Of the property within
six months from the time he secures from
the city council. the State legislature and
the Federal government the right to dredgc
channel and build piers. II he falls to
begin improvements within such time he
forfcits not only tho property itself. but
the entire purchase price of $200,n00 which
he agrees to pay therefor. Within two
years after securing tho rights above
mentioned he IS to spend the sum OF $780,
00p In improvements. III Xxi
There are many details connected with
the contract which the directors Of the
cityscompany do not deem It Wise to dis
close now, but the foregoing cover the
main things Of public interest. Upon re-
ceipt OF the telegram tomorrow announc~
ing that the terms have been acceded TO
at this end Mr.. Huntington will imme-
diatcly sign the contract. which Is In dupli-
cate, and send copy to his attorneys In
Texas. Messrs. Baker, Bolts. Baker &
Lovett of Houston.
They viii deliver 1t to the officers OF the
city company and In return receive from
the latter a signed contract for trans
mittak to Huntington. His Eastern attor-
neys have ninety days In which to exam-
Inc the title, and when they become salts
fed on that point the deed to the property
that ninety days Will not be consumed In
this work and that the matter will be closed
UP very soon.
There p now absolutely nothing In the
way of the Southern Pacific coming to
Galveston. A little brushwood, perhaps.
remains to be gotten rid of, but that will
not take long. AS the West End Dock
company has significd intention of relin
gushing all their claims to the property,
other claimants will doubtless be MS lib
eral. and the contamination of the vast
project for which Galveston has been
working 80 long will soon be an assured
fact.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITY
PROMOTIONS IN TRE FIRST Ann
FOURTH REGIMENTS.
Charters Cor = Harris County Land
Company and Cotton Mills
Company Filled.

Austin. Texas, January 9.-rhe fcliowine
vas issued this evening:
General Order No. IS.
The following promotions and appoint
rnents are hereby made In tho First and
Fourth regiments Texas volunteer infantry,
viz: First Lieutenant L. O. Mcdonald.
company l.. Fourth regiment to be cap
tain, vice Parish, resigned Second Lieu
tenant Louis s. Casimer, company L.
Fourth regiment, to be iirst lieutenant, vice
Mcdonald. promoted; First Sergeant n |.
L. Norton. company Il, Fourth regiment,
to be second lieutenant, vice Cashier, pro-
NOTED; First Sergeant Wallace "A. Love,
company II. First regiment, To be second
lieutenant, vice Murchison, promoted, to
date from January 1. 1892.
/ BY order OF the governor.
Al Wozencraft, Adiutant General.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
THE SUNDAY LAW.

The proclamation OF Justice King and
County Attorney Pope that the Sunday
law would BIO rigidly enforced had the do
sired effect yesterday and not single vio-
lation wns reported The saloon men
closed their places of business Saturday
night at IL o'clock and the back doors
were Theoretically scaled throughout Sun
day. Merchants also obeyed the law to tho
letter. Markets, fruit stands and some
grocery stores remained open until o
O'clock but after that hour It was impos-
sible to purchase anything except medi-
cine. There Is some complaint at the rigid
enforcement of the law. but no ono claims
that 1t worked a hardship. while many who
have herctofore been kept at their places
Of business on Sunday spent happy,
pleasant day yesterday.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10

C0nSederate Veterans of Waco Wt1l
Observe II Appropriately.
Waco. Texas. January 9.-sPat Cleburne
camp, United Confederate Veterans, will
eslsbssts ths birthday Of General Rebsss
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
THE SUPREME COURT. /.

7
THE SUPREME COURT.
The following proceedings were had IN
the supreme court today:
Motion for reheariny submitted: Avery
ct al VS.. Pepper Bro. OF al, from Hunt.
Certified questions submitted. Millican
VS.. Mcneil ct al, from Harris; Gray va.
State OF Texas ex rol Langham, from
Jefferson.
Petition for mandamus set for January
%: Linden VS.. Finley. comptroller.
Wrtts OF error refused: Galveston. Har-
ffsburg and San Antonio Railway Company
vs.. Bohan, from Galveston; Western Union
Telegraph Company VS.. Waller, iron, Will
itmson; Kerr County VS.. Kitchens from
Brown; Sbippey ct al VS.. Hough, from
McLennan; Washington Life Insurance.
Company vs.. Gooding. from Lamar; Kemp
Grocery Company va. TRIBE ct al from
Montaguc; Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company of Texas VS.. Rose, from
Harris; Clapper ct al VS.. Sage ct al. from
Harris; Galveston, Harrisburg and san
Antonio Railway Company We. Patterson
from PreRidio.
Writ of error granted: Smith va Rich
ardson Lumber Company, from Cooke.
Dismossed for want OF Jurisdiction.
Branch ct al vs. Sirnons. from Jackson;
City National Bank OF Gatesvllic ct al va
Swink, receiver, etc. from Dallas; Texar.
kama and Fort Smith Railway Company vs.
BuIgier. from Jefferson.
NEW CORPORATIONS.
The following corporations filcd char
ters with the secretary OF state today:
Bethany Presbyterian church of Dallas;
assets $3.50. Incorporators: J. l.. Scho-
field Ed Brundrett. ]. a. Smith.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
GUT OUT THE ALARM.

Ed Eastman. chief of the fire depart
ment. requests the announcement that on
Wednesday all Are alarm boxes In the city
with the exception OF those ut the mills
will be out out. Mr.. Eastman says this
action Ia prompted by IA refusal of Mayor
Wheat to approve n purchase OF the sys-
tenn as recommended at the last meeting OF
the council. AS tho matter now stands"
Gays Mr.. Eastman, "the Weiss hook and
ladder company Is burdened with the TX
pense Of maintaining the fire alarm system.
and they do not Intend to spend their prl-
waite funds for the benefit of the entire
city any longer"
The alarm boxes VIII be disconnected
"Wednesday unless the fire boys and city
reach an agreement tomorrow.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-10
IocAI NoTEs ANn PERSONALS.

LOCAL NOTES AND PERSONALS.
r. T. Robertson, chief engineer of the
Texarkana and Fort Smith railroad is In
the city today.
girl and boy, twins were born to Mr..
and Mrs j. s. Brice last night. Tho boy
weighed 9h and the girl Sis pounds.
MIR. and Mrs. Ad Won Kaickstein. for
merly hosts OF the Crosby house. left last
night for Brennan, where they Will make
their future home.
j. e. Harris and wife OF Grenada, Miss,
have moved to Beaumont for the purpose
OF locating. Mr.. Harris is brother In
law OF II. M. Aldridge. general superin-
tendent OF the Gulf. Beaumont and Kansas
City.
A meeting Of the yellow pine lnmbermcn
manufacturers of Texas and Louisiana will
be held in Houston tomorrow. and the
mills of this city and generally of this
section will be represented. The meeting
will be called to or Ter in Elks hall, Blnz
building, ajo. vi.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10

well as being light and comfortable to
wear The great fault Of many hats is
their weight, which is bad for the head
and the hair. a comparatively large hat
of tullc or chiffon, even although covered
with ruchings and puffngs, is so light as
to be no burden unless it is loaded down
with other trimming.
Bright colors are characteristic of the
prevailing millinery. Not only are the
trimmings gay, but the foundation upon
which tho decoration is built up is often
of a lively coloring, whether it BIO straw
crepe de chine, tulle or mousscline. Red
deep rose, green, violet and bright blue
are favorite shades, and there are alsC
golden browns, delicate grays and fawn'
which are extremely attractive. FawI
with gold trimmings and gray with silver
trimmings are two of the fashionable
combinations in delicate effects.
The hat shown in the picture is of pink
ish lilac straw. 1t has waved brim. un
der which is ruche of tulle to match
The left side is lifted by cluster of small
pink roses with foliage, and around the
brim is n drapery of mauve taffeta witt
groups Of tucks passing through golt
buckle at the back. At the left side is
high trimming of plated tulle
JUDO CHOLLET
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10
SUMNER MANTLE.

grenadine over n highly colored lining ha.
changeable effect which is often satisfac
tory.
Immense punches of violets are nov
worn upon the front of the bodice in the
street, and the clusters are sometimes
eight or nine inches across, suggesting
great purple cabbagcs rather than the
modest and POLITICALLY retiring violet.
The latest novelty is to tie violet silk
cord with tassclcd ends around the stems
of the flowers
High collars continue to be ornamcnted
with points, tabs and wings, borderec
with puflings ruchcs and plaitngS.
The illustration given today shows c
long mantle of black bengaline. a rufile
of black mousseliuo de sole hcmmed witt
black satin and headed by a vine of black
embroidery designs "a redingotc outline
upon the skirt, and the embroidery pa sses
up the sides of the front The yoke il.
tucked, and from it depend pointed pclerint
sleeves embroidered with black and ter
minating in triple rutfles of black nous
seline bordcred with satin bands Ir
front are revcrs of black satin bordered
with ruche of mousseline de sole, and
the valois collar is trimmed in the sans
way. JUDO CHoLLET.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10
HAIRLESS AND TAGlESS.
But This Mexican DOG Had n Helpful
Friend when In Need.

A few afternoons ago tall young wo-
man, very smartly arrayed and with an
uncommonly large and varied assortment
of cinking chatelaine articles attached
to an amethyst incrusted gilt belt, stroll
ed down up town Seventeenth street,
closely followed by tiny, shivering,
cringing Chihuahua dog. The dog was
collarless, but wore a belt harness trim
med with cerise ribbon. He did not per-
nit himself to be left more than two feet
to the rear Of his mistress heels.
At one of the corners there was q sud
den rattle, and n Gagged wagon drew up
alongside the curb at the point where
the young woman and her dog were walk
ing. A big black dog catcher sprang
from the rear of the Gagged wagon, and
in trite less than no time the pampered
little Mexican dog was whimperingly
struggling in the meshes of the dog catch
er's net. The dog catcher transferred
the whining brute from the net to the
wagon, where a lot OF large, coarse, COM
mon dogs were already sullenly estab-
lished.
The young woman owner of the cap
tured Chihuahua viewed the proceedings
with all the GOODNESS in life She djust-
ed her eyeglasses carefully and looked
the dog catcher over from head to foot
Then she examined the plebean dogs in
the wagon. The dog catcher didn't know
what to make of her conduct He eX-
pected her to become hysterical and to
frantically demand the return of her pet.
But there didn't appear to be any hys-
terics in her. She walked up to the dog
catcher.
"What do you think you are going to
do with that dog of mine?" she inquired
of him in the most matter of fact tone
imaginable.
"Ahs dun swiped him, miss, 'codin
tub law" replied the dog catcher
what for?' asked the young woman.
"'Cause dcy amt no license on him."
replied the dog catcher.
as that so?' said the tall young wom-
an quietly. We'll, you can just pass that
pup back to me. He has been licensed"
"Ah'd laik tub TEX yo wud TO dat
missy, but All doan' see no tag, an it's de
law dat
you can look at it now" replied the
captured pups mistress, unsnapping one
of the cinking articles from her chate-
laine belt. 1T was among the first Of
the years issue, as you'll see by the num-
Der. / wear it myself. because the chilly
metal gives Diaz cold in the chest"
| The dog catcher looked at the tag,
| grinned sheepishly and reached in and
handed out the moaning Chihuahua to
its mistress.
"Dey'l be nh wearin de tags TO ear
rims mex" said the dog catcher to the
driver of the wagon as the young woman
and the ratlkc pup disappeared around
the corner.-Was hington Post.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10
THE MONEY MAKERS.
strange Ways Used to Capture the
Elusive Dollars.

Those who have read much of Dickens
are struck by some of the peculiar and
unique industries and occupations de-
scribed in some OF his novels. But in
real life odd and curious occupations for
earning livelihood are continually
springing into being.
a woman in England has become what
may be known as professional baby
manner" She proclaims in the newspa-
pers her Willingness to select for the
modest sum of % cents a suitable name
for any baby OF high or low degree. All
that the parents need to do TO take ad
vantage of her professional assistance is
to forward with the requisite fee such
particulars as to their position in life,
temperament color OF the baby's eyes
the month of its birth and one or two
more of like import, and by return mail
the applicant will receive name which
it is stated, is warranted to give satsfac-
ton.
A new industry has come into existence
among the Parisians, and camel steak is
displacing horse steak in the restaurants
of Paris, Algerian butchers providing the
supply.
Several dentists in New York city have
TellTtu from lHt I'Sulhi pldt'iNc VI nav
ing human patients and are confning
themselves to canine dentistry, manufac
turing for the little pugs Of the rich sets
of false teeth or, as is sometimes requir
ed, filling their teeth with gold.
But the champion instance of nine
teenth century enterprise is furnished by
the sympathetic girl who listens to the
sorrows and misfortunes Of her fellow
creatures for 80 cents an hour! believe
as the world is now constituted, the ten
der hearted young lady should never lacL
clients.
Then there is the snake industry. Ar
old man named Abner Dodge, having
numerous friends among the rattlesnakt
fraternity, has for years past utilized his
friends and extracted the oil from theil
bodies, said oil being used as medicine
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10
Saving For Old Age.

No one denies that it is wise to make a
provision for old age, but we are not all
agreed as to the kind of provision it is best
to lay in. Certainly we shall want little
money, for destitute old man is indeed n
sorry sight. Yes, save money, by all
means. But an old man needs just that
particular kind Of strength which young
men are most apt 10 waste. Many fool
ish young fellow will throw away on a
holiday certain amount Of nervous on
ergy which he will never feel tho want Of
TIL he is 20, and then, how much he will
want it, It's curious, but true, that "a bot
tie of champagne at 20 may intensity the
rheumatism of threescore. 1t is fact that
everlasting the eyes at ii may necessitate
tho aid of speotacles at 40, instead Of So
We advise our young readers to be saving
of health for their old age, for the maxim
holds good with regard to health as to
money Waste not, want not.
1t is the greatest mistake TO suppose
that any violation of the laws of health
can escape its penalty. Nature forgives
no sin, no error. She let's of the offender
for 80 years sometimes, but she catches
him at last and intiicts the punishment
just when, just where, just how he feels it
most. Save up for old age, but save know
ledge, save the recollection of good deeds
and innocent pleasures; save pure
thoughts, save friends, save love- save rich
stores of that kind of wealth which time
cannot diminish nor death take away
/ Exchanpe
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10
MEXICO'S WILD HOG.
He Is the Most vicious and Fearless "
the brute Creation,

"The most vicious and fearless of tho
brute creation is the peccMy, or wild hog
Of Moxico," said G.. W. Bartlett of Laredo,
Tex. "This animal seems utterly devoid
of the emotion of fcar. have never seen
It turn a hairs breadth out of its path for
any living thing. Man is it's special bette
nor. IL displays al intelligence in fight
Ing the human strangely 1T variance with
It's apparently complete lack of any mental
attributes save the very lowest order Of
instinct. They arc rarely found singly,
but go in droves Of from a hundred to
thousands Their ability to scent men is
particularly marked. / have known n
drove of them to scent man n mile off
and strike az straight for him as the arrow
flies. There is no use to try to Brighten
them with guns. The cannonading of a
full battery would have no more effect on
them than the popping of nrecrnckcr
The only thing TO do when they get after
you is to run away from them as fast rs n
horse can carry you. And then there IL no
certainty that they won't catch you. They
arc nearly as swift as u horse, and their
| endurance Is as great as their viciousness
"a friend Of mino encountered "a drove
of them in II wild part of Mexico few
years ago and his escape was miraculous
He very foolishly shot and wounded a
number Of them. Then he took refuge in
tree. The recoaries kept him in the tree
all that day and through the night. They
circlcd around tho tree, grunting and
| squealing their delight at the prospect of
q feast He soon exhausted his ammuni-
ton, and brought down peccary at each
! fire. But this had no terrors' for the
beasts. Along toward morning the brutcs
began to eat the ones he had killed, and
when they thus satisfied tho cravings of
their stomachs they formed in line and
trotted Off. IL they had not had some OF
their own number to devour, they would
have guarded that tree until my friend,
through sheer exhaustion dropped from
his perch and allowed them to make a
meal off him. The wildcats and tigers
that infest the Mexican wilds fec from
tho peccarics with instructive fear, and
even rattlesnakes keep out of their path. u
st. Louis Republic.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10
A FINE DISPLAY OF ART,
American Sculpture rs Shown In the Ii
brary of Congress.

brary of Congress.
Upon the whole it may almost be said
that the sculptors appear in the library 70
greater advantage than the painters. Not
of course, that the art of sculpture is so
successfully cultivated in America as the
art of painting, but that the library pre-
sents moro adequate exposition of what
we can do in sculpture than in painting
IL is indeed the first collective exhibit in
durable form of the work of American
sculptors that has ever been made. There
is no American sculptor who is conspicu-
Gus by his absence, whereas there are
American painters whom the observer will
miss and others whom he will encounter
with more or less regret. The bronze doors
of Warner set "a standard at the threshold
to which it would be too much to hope
that all the interior sculpture should con-
form. And yet those who know American
sculpture best will probably be most sur
prised at the success with which the sculp-
tural adornment of tho great rotunda has
been managed-at the appropriateness,
alike architecturals and symbolioal, of the
eight austere figures Of the pendentives, at
the dignity and the force Of the portrait
statues. Not that even here there are not
some works which appeal for attention by
u provincial eccentricity.
The more strictly decorative modelling,
which still has sculptural pretcnsions, one
cannot praise so highly. The facility of
the modeler of it is so astonishing that it
would be contrary to nature If 1t were not
largely reminiscent. Reminiscent or not,
the aspiring bronze figures that form the
finals of the newell posts in the vestibule
are extremely effective. But the flying
figures which hold the tablets over the al
le9orical statues and which I'LL the span
drills by the simple expedient of kicking
backward into them, are pretty plainly
homogeneous with the sober and menu
mental richness which Is the character OF
the great rotunda and which is very pow
erfully enhanced by the allegorical statues
Of the pendentives and the portrait statues
of the marble screens. Montgomery
schuyler in Scribner's.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-10
BOOICES.
big Bouuuets Arc Worn Upon the
Front of the Gown.

Light bodices are to be Worn This sum.
mer. They will he made of taffet6. nous.
seline de sole and foulard and will he worn
with separate skirts of lightweight good.
like ctamine, crepe de chine and mousseline
de laine. Among the materials brought out
for warm weather are very attractive wool
and mohair grenadines in both plain and
fancy weavcs. They require a silk lining,
as they are transparent and will compose
cool and attractive gowns, especially in
the light and bright colors. All the new
shades are reprcsented-a dull reddish
pink, the whole gamut of bluet blues anC
the violet range also a rather light but
suhdued greenish blue, which is particu
larry pleasing. Pearl gray or light beige