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BATTLE POT-POURRI THIS EVENING BY REQUEST. BEQUEST NIGHT OFFICE ov 1 184 AND 186 MECHANIC STHKKT, G. VOL. AL.V1SSTON. ENTERED AT Tira POSTOFIT-I' SECO.VU-CLASS MATTER, The Committee on Public Cwnloct the INTERSTATE DRILL tifmS! 1 "Xl'W" citizens to o'xort V1.XVTM rr kU (or tho III? I A-ICUI-tUla Wl.llt you a Jlo.aud sciul locution, number uf rooms uud IwilH.

and whether you ciui mipplv board and nt wlmt rate. Address JAS. H. MILLER, Chairman AtOlHro of Col. A.

H. Shannon, Stnincl iiaar Treinont, Second floor. --vuiim, naai THE SECOND TEXAS WILL BE HELD AT IAMPASAS SPRINGS, July 20th to 24th, Every bank In the State la cordially Invleoa to wild a representative. A luge Mteudnnoe la assured. K.

MAI.OXE. Secretary Pure. REDUCTION. Yofli'sExtraclofUalt THE QEEAT TOHIC OF THE AGE. IBICES-6 doz.

in Cask, 81300 10 doz. pints in Cask, 13 00 FOR SALE BY J. F. BICAGALE, Sole Agent, Oalveston, Tex. MACOGBOCHES.

An Murder Trial to Gome Up-Return the Boer Slayers, im News. NAcor.DocnKS, July ease of Dr. A. H. DH Lufkin, charged with the murder of I.

set for trial Mon- flay, tlie instant, at Homer, Angelina county. Dr. Da Bose is now 'in the county jail awoitins his trial, he having declined to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. The bill of indictment was found at this (the July) term of the District Court. I.

J. Muller the deceased, resided at Homer. About dark on the night of the aoth, of ISSf), was seated at his GALVESTON. 'I'KXAS, SATURDAY. 17.

THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL" It is Keduced One-fourth and Passed by the Seanto. LIVELY FIGHT IN THE HOUSE LOBBY. favorable Outlook for the Morrison Resolution--An Appeal for Aid--Other Washington Items. THE KIVEH AWD HaRBOH BttL. It Passes the Senate After Being Radncod 26 Per Cent.

Special to The Nows. WASHINGTON, July river and harbor bill passed the Senate to-day with an amendment reducing every appropriation 2li per cent. This makes the aggregate less than it was when the bill passed the House, but will enable tho conference committee to make changes iu any approprla- ii OD may deol to increase or reduce It will make the bill objectionable to many SU ported heretofore, but interposed at this juncture ts separated. Laird wo and tho comas taken to his HOUSTON STILL THE PLACE. Houston is stilt SO miles and several Itmrs nearer the trade thin any other prominent market in the State.

Momton is tlie railroad center this indeed of the chief traffl-. cinter of and. it still offers tlie best facilities for selling goois and for handling Cotton satisfactorily and economically, of any place in the. South -In addition to the above advantages, who will kindly patrtmue this season yet the. tengit of business facilities and consideration which are the resuLtx of long years of experience and of a sincere desire to please.

its THE MOHRI80H HEgOLTTTIOW. A General that It will ed Favorably. poolal to The News. WASHINGTOX, July general iression is that the Morrison surplus roso, Jution will bo reported favorably from-the senate finance committee. Judging from their pnst record on such matters, it is pretty safe to that the resolution will have majority of one in the committee.

It may be amended, howevor which ESTABLISHED 184-21 vu kls Cleveland, as 1 He Baicl would try to 1- tminf- i ltue1 trn at an- point, aud.llns was u)J he could do It impossible for me to do iustiuo to WEIS 01 aurt 83 Strand, iju Oalvoston, some three weeks ago that tlTeh named member with grea dimculv strained him There i every rewon to 6 rt '-TMce had not, couieiu the shape of Paysou u-sanguinary personal combat would have resulted. porM)naI POSTAL HATTEH8. Orders by the Department the Service Throughout Texas. WASHINGTON, July following orders have boon nmde by tlie dapart- mem, which affect Urn ust ai service in ii Maryland-- SI. Berry, Call, fc or hervice hanges -Itouk- Mar- tort Davis.

Prom August jraease service to seven times a week i Mes.iHite to nought's Store to Sweetwaler to Hoby. ron j.un 1, INSj, extend service from'llobv ti di8t miles The President Voi- not Indicate Hi. Course to tho Virginia Democrats in the Ooods Case. WASHINGTON, July Virginia De mocrats who called on thepresideat in the of Judge John Goode were ver cordially received but not very much encouraged. Tin- president expressed regret at the Senate's action, but was particular not to indicate what course ho would pursue in the premises.

Tha failure to find Sir. Cleveland in a mood to immediately renominate Judge Goode seems to have been accepted as discouraging though known Jf Lllc oouuie part 01 hi probably result in additionally pre- a Th9 would ac- fr, ft "Partisan bravado or an af- trout direct, and promptly act accordinirlv name of Ho'n. J. WndolphT Tucker is i a from the list of tho'-e ion wi nays, ,4, aa hnt prospects, all -Mich action in advance of some clmuge of feeling on the Senate'- pane if glass, the window-sash beiug down Ihe children did not see the assassin. It is said that DiiMose aud Muller were personal CS a 1 Bos lmd threatened he life of iluller.

Muller was the son-in- law of Du Bose, niul they had had nuaue Ct 1 1 Ba otoer, which had ler for Homer, 1 Drought a sui't against Mul- considerable sum of manoy vf ss ssiDa ted in the town of Homer, Dr. Du Bose resided at that time nnd does now, in the town of Lufkin six miles distant. The defense is an alibi Dr Dn Bose is in good circumstances, and is regarded as a good physician. Muller, the 8e i ame of a 8pod and respectable family of this county, where he was born Sf. i some previous to D.

iul prevous death he natl been engaged disiEg in the town of at the time of his death he was not so engaged he shortly before that time having iSled in business. Public opinion is about equally divided as to the guilt or innocence at thl fte'fal' OOBS ilerable interest is felt in A party of our sportsmen left here last Mon ny S' eek for deer hunt in Angelina county. They returned laBtThursdayfaml report as follows: Deer killed, 12; innu- a fls nll ft id squirrels slain ad i iftmtum. The party was composed of B. Wettermark, John G.

Orton Thomas Mimms, J. C. Harris, Allen Seal, Sr tieal, James Morgan, J. Blakey. R.

Stall- er J-C. Harris, one of the party, brought back a small bird and an mmense spider, which had caught the bird Us web. Tho spider was caught in the act of making off with tho bird Congress Xot Likely to Do Anything tor the Sufferers from Drouth Special to Tlie Nows. WASHINUTOK, petitions have, been received by the senators and some of the members of the House from lexfts; asking for government aid for the people of those counties iu northwest Texas affected by the drouth. It is a universally recognized doctrine here that the State is primarily bound, if able, to relieve its citizens against extraordinary calamities.

It nl wh tnere Is an absence of abilitr tipoii the part of the State, or the emergency Preclude the action the 'Rt Congress is at all dispose GENERAL WASHINGTON NOTFS. Tie Senate then adjourned. HOUSE. The House resumed the consideration of the conference report on the legislative ao- propriatiou bill, and it was agreed to, thus disposing of po many amendments in'dis- pute as were agreed to by the conference committee. Cannon, of Illinois, moved that the House recede from its disagreement to the senate amendment providing for an increase of the clerical force of the civilW 1 a SOn alled tfle veto message on Lifee.

sramm tt Pension to Elizabeth leave Bonte Brenham to Industry le Hmiliaii daily except Hnndavs at (i arrive at Industry by 12 leave Industry a 1 1 a i Center to Timpson: leave Koute Cent BeSer FOB SAI.E. HAVE FORSAEEASMKmsHPOIrBR steel return tubular boiler, made by the Erie City Iron -of Erfe, -with briar works and all neoesaary attachments except boiler feeder. Atao one power Both Boiler and Engine are In good conm tlon and have been In use only six months. Our only reason forsolllug I 3 that they are too small toi our use. will sell at GUKATLY REDUCED PEICE3.

For further Information call on or address AMOK THE KUIJTS. The Dtsd Body of an Unknown Man Found Under the Fragments of a Shed. Special to Tho News. TEXARKANA, July To-day, as a squad of were engaged in removing the debris -of a fullen shed iu the rear of the Arkansas oil mills, -which had been aged by that institution for storing purposes, they found the body of aman crashed beyond recognition. The body was at the bottom of the ruins, and had evidently been there since last Novembac, when the shed was blown down in Upon the clothing was fotrnd a diary, pages filled in small writin ff "gf Tg that the victim wasra native of Swltatritort.

In It wasJotmd a letter addressed railroad foreman at Camden, and one krtson Artlson, foreman. Tie letter indosett in no. -omoial of the Texas and St iouis company, and had fte private names iH UDOn lts faoe Tie letter indicated beiBgwitten brtte unfortunate man as it applied for work, and being sealed in an dJr the he had written it ex. ad dfes8 1twllen he Procored a stomp. The impression is that formerly, or at that employe of the Texas and St.

Louis Railroad company and from tie appearance of his clothfnp is roBg that he was by floods, which entirely destroyed" the crops, and the same wholly failed to re- e-ive serious consideration by Congress Our representatives could effect as much a4 those of any other State, and would be glad to do anything that could be accomplished but they can't perform impossibilities. WIHTEBSMITH AGAIN. Congressman Heagan Has His Say as to How He Came to Introduce the Bill. Special to The News. July Reagan thinks that NKWS- special from here sent on the 10th instant, in regard to the joint resolution proposing to pay the legal representatives of tlie late James G.

Wintersmith a sum equal to one year of his salary as door-keeper, may have occasioned some misapprehension iu regard to the reason for the introduction of the reso- ution upon the subject. He says the reso- a request to introduce it, a ment that he (Mr. Thomson) had examined 9 that it was tbfcustom Route Kopperl to Kimball: leave daily, except Sundi CHAIN'S EI.OQUBNT AI-PKAL. iTiim mnile a stroiis and eloquent speech in Ihe House las', night in favor of the bill extend the provisions of the eight-hour law to letter-carriers. NO DATE KOli Anj.n-UN-MKMT.

No resolution naming a day for the adjournment of Congress has yet been reported to tne House by the ways and means i ommittee. One reusou for the delay is tu.3 by p. m. acogdoches Saturdiivs arrive at Etoile by 4 p. leave Etoile Fridays at a.

arrive at Sacogdoches er of "Mr. WhJteTsmith'wa's facts, which were unknown Reaean 8 he took the resolution and introduced it becaiiBnnf tho it, cqaa and friendship between himself and Win tersmith The' resolution, on. its passage" was called up by Mr. Breckiuridge.of KeJ: tacky, and passed. Mr.

Wintersmith was never married, as stated in the dispatch 1 dispatch the interior Helena to Panna Maria- elena Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat: nrdays at p. arrive at Panna Maria bv bp. leave Panna MuriaTuewlavV, ThtA- Hrten'kWp 3 THE INVESTIOATION. Getting at the Pact, in the Indian Tradership Scandal. July examination of h.

M. Hunter, for Cleveland late traders atAnnrdako, I. was oontinnea HUB morning by Plait's separate committee of the Senate. Hunter's evidence was substantially in coroboratiou of that of Cleveland last Tuesday. He described a series of interviews between himself and the commissioner of Indian affairs with respect to the renewal of Cleveland's license aud wH pr 08it for a Partnership with Cleveland.

At one of these inter- 6 that he was a respctabTI ll-known Mtech that cooTpany Other papers f-ound amonsfiis effects have the name of which might possrbly be- bis-real Publishers Dallas Morning News, DALLAS, TEXAS' COTTON. advances to That Ksported Mtzlean Bevoltrtlon-School Matters-- Horses KeleaMd. LABKDO, July No farther information has been received to-day concerning the Incipient revolution in the state of Tamaulipas further than the fact that 350 infantry were sent down to-day from Monterey to New Laredo to be forwarded forthwith to the scene of the trouble near Mi.er. It is reported this evening that the town of Guerrero, below New Laredo, was captured last night by the revolutionists. A large body of revolutionists arerra-eported to be above New Laredo in the state of Suevo Leon.

This revolution is important from the fact that it will demonstrate the power of the general government to em 7 re ason the facilities of nt.ro Hm1 tele sTMphs to concentrate. more troops in one week at a given point i in Men "most" do in exhibited any oertlflorte of riage. About tne time of the 1 head horf ies, seized here last week by the custom-house because of a too iow valuanon.werereleased to-day under instructions from the secretary of the treasury. The owner of the seized stock was Mr. Rosenbanm, one of the largest mer- chtints New Laredo.

The committee on education in the public Fchool.s of Laredo to-day recommended to the city council the election of all the teachers employed last year. Their report will In all probability, be adopted, rsmitn died also shortly after- THE MONOTONY BROKEN. A Regular Set-to Between Two Members of the House. July sensation was created in the House this afternoon by a personal encounter between Representatives Cobb, of Indiana, and Laird, of Nebraska, growing out of charges made by the former on the floor of the House to the effect that the Nebraska members had been concerned in the land ring. Representative Payson, of Illinois, a member of the public lands committee, was explaining to Representative Gilflllan the effect certain ate amendments to the bill intended to protect the rights of homestead settlers, when Representative Laird leaned from bis seat TMTV he art a cd Why do not 8al to re-license Cieve laud.

itness several times referred to interviews with Senator Vest, who. he sa 1 TM e1Jin of Cleveland, bnt the oommittee decided not to kear anything with regard to Oiese interviews which was not essential to a clear nnderstaSdiwTof Hunter's own because Senator Vest T. C. von Koseuberg, of Austin, who recently graduated at the Maryland Military nnd Naval academy, of Oxford, and Henry Loughry, also of Austin, spent vesterdav here nnd left to-day for New York l8raar James B.Boyd, of Calvert, is here. THR XEW CIUJ1SEHS.

The secretary of the navy has decided to construct one of the new cruisers on the plans and designs of the Naniwaken recently built abroad, and the other on the plans of the bureau of construction. SBSSIOS, SKXATK. WASHINGTON, the passage of two or three pension bills, the Senate resumed consideration of the river and harbor bill. Mr. Vest called attention to a sentence ii Mr.

Conger's speech, yesterday, which i. had uot heard, and which appeared to be aimed at the senator from Texas (Mr. Coke) and himself. It was to the eifect that two members of the committee on commerce had confessed that they had been actuated by corrupt motives. If he had heard such a statement, it would have received from Mr.

Belmont. of New York, from the 1 3 ish Rd the Ho'u aU co 9 en made pahf other righis oFborderinfrepu'bU? 68 M0 tv mniLc euco. "on, would deserve to be expelled Mr. Conger disclaimed making any such SHi'rt'ifh?" RS Ur Vest complailed ol "Sd I 5 ada ny remark not for it was made under excitement. The sena tors from Missouri and Texas had been wUh himstlf firm advocates of the bill and hod no fault to find with them.

i i th9 "mendments bill (with the original amendments reduced TM TM Proceeded with. 0 8 a tuner a personal interview 1 La "iont, some documents re- Kg to the case. One document was an you fellows (referri committee'do sornei ng to thing the public lands to break up th land nng the South, instead of raiding up INorth-' Mr. Paysou replied that that was what the committee was endeavoring to do. Mr.

Cpob undertook to defend the committee, of which he was chairman, and an angry passage occurred between him and Mr. Laird, ended bv the latter gentleman calling the former a liar, witnesses say that Cobb declared that Laird did not dare come outside and repeat the language. Laird is said to have replied tuat the gentleman could not get en ou Sh for him. with lobbv i tarted through the iouoj into the basement. Some have one tne who riad siirnel the report to control the floor Tn.

ste i recognizing a member who held side of-the question and eivinz power ty shut off debate. After lonl wrangle over this, in which the oh maintained he was right in Tecoguizing Matsou but subsequently acknowledged Us' error the House refused to pass the bill over the veto--yeas 122: nays 97 next message called up was that vetoing the bill granting a pention to Joseph Romeiser In thil case the com" mittee on invalid pensions is unanimonslv Mates- fienate, Wiisliimtton, Do moer ii, Jim: I had a 8 orrni issioiier of a TMi il! i l' cen se either ileynoids or eland in conjunction with Jnckson. He -uses to license both, hut savs he will give either of them a joint license with acKgon, who is already licensed. This ns the best I could do. Now, I want you 0 8 toi either, but I wont to meet your and Dave', wishes.

Let me know at once, our friend, G. G. Va 3T 1 the river and harbor bill 11 ved to increase the apnro- priation for improving the harbor at Clucngo from to and oreued in support of his amendment. In com parisonwith other harbors much less portant, and not requiring so much work ne thought the committee was not treatin- Mr. Kdmunds alluded to Mr.

Logan as J.vS"^-,.--!.??^ chJ 01 shoulder," and and lder, the social character of Chicago (with the anarchist element in its population) with that of BnrUngtou. DALLAS. Hot Weather on the at the Action the Lawyers, to The News. DALLAS, July There is general dissatisfaction among the farmers at the action of the State Bar association in voting a recommendation foi the passage of a law subjecting the commissioner of the land office to writs of injunction on man-- damus, while voting down an amendment to pnt the other heads of departments in tlie same boat. If the feeling of the farmers of Dallas county can be taken as a criterion on the subject, this action will carry The amendment was rejected.

Sir Vest moved to increase the appropri- a-ViS 1 Misso "rl river from to 1 00, and argued in support of the mo- Mr. McMillan opposed it, saying that if the motion prevailed, the amendment reported by the committee on commerce might as well be abandoned at once, nays a re ecteJ --J'eas, 20; Kf 1311 offered an amendment pro- Mdirg that if in the judgment of the president the puulic interest would be -subserved by the withholding of the amount appropriated for any improvement provided for in the bill, he might withhold it aud report next "ssiSS? rettsous therefor at the Mr. Beck--That means that the president 15 to be substituted for Congress. resM9at noon registered 107' a strong, superheated iu, which scorched or withered delicate foliage. or rnisiug subscriptious, and A ad ay met with fair sale proceeds thS leased "i led but snbsenneutly re- i'i a bllrtcn who Tiad taken most of the money from hin: for safekoep- Over to The Georgia Strikers.

AXJOUSTA, July The strike at the Augusta factory continues. The Enterorisa mill shut down this afternoon becawe'o" strike tho card and picker roam..