The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-20
LOCAL DOTS.

The Lazarus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dutton will take the found
ling.
Seats are going pretty fast for Oscar
Wilde.
MIR. Newcomb has been busy all day re-
pelling the attacks of his friends.
The new postmaster was the recipient OF
a magnificent boquet of sunhowers this morn
ing.
B. M. Lemans was acquitted this morn.
ing in the district court on charge of horse
stealing.
Judge F. Smith has gone to Gonzales as
a witness. Mr.. Guerguin acts for him in his
absence.
The emancipation day celebration con-
Guided yesterday, and everything was quiet
and orderly.
"A wagon laden with soft stone broke
down this morning on Houston street, oPpo-
site Landa's Office.
j. F. Sweeney has sold out his printing
business to LA. He'll, and proposes to 60 into
the sheep business.
The signal station reports the height of
barometer 20. SO; thermometer 79 Eagle Pass,
barometer 29. SO; thermometer 50.
There is but one expression this mornn G
over the news from Washington of a change
in the postmastership. Every one is de-
lighted.
The committee for framing the constitu-
ton and bylaws of the British association
meet tonight at Hollands tea store, on Com
merce street.
Fishing on the Leon is said to be excel
lent. A party of anglers caught forty-fve
trout and perch last Sunday. One trout two
feet long was caught.
The feature of the fire alarm last night
was the turning loose of the fog horn OF the
Alamo ice company. Nothing else could be
heard in consequence.
"A large amount of machinery-thirty-one
wagon loads-is being put aboard cars at the
|. y G. N. depot, to be shipped to the mines
at Vlllalldama, Mexico.
The Mexican Pacific extension will change
time Thursday morning, June ed, leaving al
| "a m. and arrive at $40 p. m. Trains will
run through to Del Rio.
ming in almost every direction of the points OF
the compass to try and find the same, a.
nothing could be told from the bell tap.
AN old chinaman JUMPED off the Houston
street bridge into the river to-day, about hal
past one o'clock. He was rescued by some
one who witnessed the affair, and turned him
over to the police.
1T has been suggested to invite Mr.. w. H.
H. Murray, the gift ed actor to deliver an ad-
dress upon the tariff question. Mr.. Murray
is master Of the subject of our industries and
would contribute favor upon our community
by such an address.
| Governor Ireland was in the city this morn
ing In regard to the Austin rumor, printed
in the Express, that he had bargained with
Roberts, he says he has had no conversation
with Roberts in two years. Of course, there
are other ways Of doing it, but we give the
| Governor the benefit OF his denial.
Some party or parties in Jefferson, Texas,
have taken very deep interest in our local af-
fairs by telegraphing here for protest to Sc
cure Senator Maxey's opposition to New
combs appointment. SUCH request was very
properly declined by every one it was pre-
sented to.
"A difficulty occurred at New Braunfels
yesterday between sheriff George II. Schmidt
and Ernst Koebig, county judge, in which the
latter, accordingly telegram received here,
was severely punished.-[S. A. Express.
Yes, and it seems the difficulty arose out OF
remarks repeated by one Of the locals Of the
Express, and as an intermeddler he only es-
capped trouble by being away from the scene
of the transaction.
THAT question of getting a telephone wire
to the Sisters hospital appears to have been
allowed 10 ''slide " We mink if the city won
put wire in, then the Catholics themselves
should do so. Americans profess great gal
lantry and consideration to ladies, but they
are not showing it while they allow the Sisters
of Mercy to trudge all the way to town for
every message that is required to be sent or
when doctor is wanted.- Catholic Star.
The above item seems to intimate that
either the sisters hospital is a foreign institu-
ton or the writer Of the paragraph. Ameri-
cans are catholics and catholics are Americans
in this country.