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-m- 88 ana Mmpiieuv ot Mr. ishtbpp7ssystem of “ double entry ” makes the whole subject so plain that scarcely any explanation is needed to make it perfectly ieMligibl to tiie commonest understanding. Book keeptug is made quite a mysterious science, requir ing much study, according to some eomohvx sj!rm,s. hut. we have rarely seen an instance •ahuv simplicity - nd brevity have been moreNticcessfolly employed than‘by Mr, Philipp in removing a)] difficulty in the speedy attainment of a practical knowledge of book-keep-H1,?* mall book can be had at the Newsoffice ia Houston or in Galveston, or in the book stores ot both cities. Price $2 per copy m tl ited Sf tes currency or its equivalent.—* filers from the country, addre, sed to the New* oilier, will b - promptly attended to.• • • • »Vkkicci of Ji.H, is (Ja«s»: of S.muotihq Af-*•' \ .j, i i ;•) i'i-ir. i!iA v Mormvg • VS *', the jury, having ex mimed *mfo the cause, time and man* iaec an 1 place of the d‘*atti of J. P. Kirby, de* ocused. ittiii tnat he c.une to bis death from the edeoF o' a pisuoi ball tired born a de;riti Ker pistol in the cilt;y ot Hon-ton, on the lUh day of October, A. D., 18fio.Col^ J, IS. Kirby KilledBetween nine and ten o'clock yesterday forenoon, the city was agitated by a reportthat Col. J. E. Kirby, of Austin county, near Hempstead^ had be n killed in our Provost Marshal’s office, by a pistol fired by Mr. John Steele The report was only too true. C d. K.irby was in the Marshal’s office transacting some business, when Mr. Steele entered. Some words passed, when Mr. Steele drew his pistol anQ fired, the shot entering Col. Kirby’* left bre and passing through or near his heart. The Colonel’s hand was in his p cketon a pistol, which went off as he fell. He died in a few minutes. These arc the immediate circum-*tauee.s us narrated to us; but we cannot vouch for their correctness.As Mr. Steele is in custody, and as the affair has its complications, we purposely abstain from further detail. We cannot, however, forbear an expression of the deepest sympathy with Col. Kirby’s family. His wife, a lady of rare intelligence and culture, remarkably devoted t * her husband, will, we fear, be driven a’most to distraction by this intelligence. We most s ucvrely sympathize with her, as will a great many others who have enjoyed the pro-I use and refined hospitality ot her elegant iiciiuc. A family of children are left orphans by this sad affair; but will certainly not want friends while the hundreds who knew and en-qoyed the benefits of the generous impulses oftheir father remain true to the promptings ofb»:i honorable reciprocity.Col Kirby was in the prime of lire ; a gentleman of flue pr senee and manners, and, though somewhat impulsive, eminently large jieaucd and humane. That hn was so unfortunate as to have enemies, on! shows how easily mistakes may arise in this imperfect world ; and the final result nf one such misunderstand mg ^ another warning that men should gen-lt;eroudy trample down in their inception thosejrepuIsium* which exaggerate themselves by time and circuaistacc *s until they' end in the permanent and vengeful division of hatred. C/Oleiidge s mounbuu rent asunder by an earth* w-ko, radi side bearing marks that it belong-«?u to ihr. other, yet unable to re-unite, is a striking tig are of the result of troubles small in
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Galveston News Tri Weekly
Galveston, Texas, US
Mon, Oct 16, 1865
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