The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-23

one followed murder, but I cannot say
whether it was a male or female. l saw man
90 into the house afterward, that man, was
old, was Falkner, but don't know it.
WIN. SLATER
deposed that he roomed at Mrs. Reininger's.
His room was next to that in which the assault
occurred and was only separated by parti-
ton He heard some one enter, knock on the
bureau, then say distinctly, "Is any one here. "
No answer was heard; second knock was
given and the same voice said, "Are you
here, Anna?" Soon after l heard a fuss and
Mrs. Reninger cry for help. Jumped out of
bed, thinking there were robbers in the house,
in time to see party 60 by like cyclone.
The attorneys waived argument.
RECORDER ANDERSON
Then said that Mr.. Heiligman had been in
vited by an inmate to the house to 60 there,
and as far as he saw there was nothing wrong
or improper in his doing so. 1t was no,
claimed by the defence that there was any at
tempt at assault on the part of the plaintiff,
and the whole appeared to him like a put up
He therefore put Mrs. Reininger under three
hundred dollar bond to appear before the
grand Jury.
Clara Belle says the new summer gait for
women in New York is called the slide glide,
and is made up of long even steps, with the
body quite stifly erect, but rising and falling
considerably with each Heightened stride.
That it is rapidly becoming popular, and is
especially adapted to tall, elegant women
One arm usually bangles at the side, while
the other holds the parasol.
Oliver Hazard Perry, grandson of the re-
nowned naval hero of Lake Erie, and young
man of great intelligence and executive abili-
ty, has been appointed agent of the Middle
sex Mills, at Lowell, Mass. Mr.. Perry has
been superintend' mt of the manufacturing de-
partment Of the corporation for the past eight
years.
"Father, when hen sets on an egg three
weeks and it don't hatch is the egg spoiled ?"
"As an article of diet the egg is thencefor-
ward failure; but as species of testimonial
it is strikingy aromatic and expressive
Pittsburg Chronicle.
THE Houston daily Evening Age has in,
sisted that James P. Newcomb should be
made postmaster at San Antonio, and the San
Antonio Express has insisted that Newcomt
should not be made postmaster. Day before
yesterday the president appointed Newcomt
to the position. The result proves that the
Houston daily Evening Age has more influence
at Washington than the San Antonio Express
|-[Age.
A remarkable flower, the largest one of the
floral giants, was recently exhibited in bloom
in London Botanic Gardens. The plant it.
self (Aristolochia Goldicana), native of Old
Calabar, is not peculiar. The flower, which
may be compared to French horn or large
conch shell, requires six weeks to come tc
maturity, then bursts open and expands, and
droops in a few hours. The plant seldom
bloom in England.
Last week Oscar Wilde d'ned at a private
residence in New York. When the cloth had
been removed the Oldest child of the host, a
girl aged about eight, was introduced to the
notorious aesthetic, who was marvelously ar
rayed for the occasion After tipidly shaking
hands with the stranger and scanning him with
open eyed wonder, the little one crept close
to her mothers side and whispered: "Mam
ma, don't think Maria had better brine
baby in; it might be scared.--Brook lyn Eagle
A Female Humorist.
From he New Vork Tribune