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The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-08
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT.

Minnesota Democrats are confident tina
Washburne will be defeated for congress-.
.In this climate it seems that man never
gets too old to make fool of himself" say:
an exchange. Some are born fools.
Only fourteen states have senators borr
within their limits. Texas is not one of these
The question agitating the British night-car
is, will Wolseley prove another Wellesley?
A Texas-hedee planting company styles it.
self "The Cactus.'' Evidently it is opposed
to being sat on.
Lieut.. II. O. Ripper, dismissed from the
United States army, has been appointed a
captain in the Mexican army.
The number of immigrants who arrived in
this country last month was 65,oIo, againts
56,6o7 for the same month last year.
Capt Edmund O'Meagher of Fenian and
British prison fame, has been detailed as
supervisor of public work in Philadelphia.
Physicians have completed the microscopic
cal examination of Guiteau's brain and two
say the brain was in healthy condition while
one says 1t was not.
The earnings of 2I9 miles OF the Mexican
Central north from the City of Mexico the
third week of July were SI7,S72. 20, making
$50, 55I 81 for the first twenty-one days of
that month.
Invitations have been issued to all the cleo
trio Lighting companies in the United States
and agencies Of those abroad to make display
of their systems of lighting. both arc and in
canIescent, at the next exhibition at'Boston.
In building the great Kinzua railroad viaduo
i'll Mexican county, Pennsylvania, the work
men on some parts have to labor at an eleva-
ton of 900 feet. Owing to the perilouS char
acter of the job they get So per day.
A Cherokee Indian girl has taken prize at
Missouri seminary for the best essay on
Common sense about women" OF course
some mean man will say he wonders how She
discovered it.
NJ. E,ienne, a reputed authority on the sub
ect of harvests, has reported to The French
government that there will be no serious de-
hcency in crops this autumn and winter in
any part OF the world, and general abundance
throughout Europe and America.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-08
Special for Editors.

The San Antonio News Agency press Asso-
ciitiOn) prepared to furnish daily tclc-
graphic dispatches, weekly and bi-wcckly let
tcrS containing special news of San Antonio
and district, Mexico and Great Britain at terms
which place it within the reach all. For fur
prictOr, II. Ryder-TaylOr EVENING LIGHT Of
flee, % Commerce street, San Antonio, Texas
L. $. A., p. .. Box 3D. The agency represents
the Austin Statesman, Fort Worth Daily Ga
Zctte, Chicago Tribune, Ennis Recorder and
other American and English newspapers. II
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-08
What Is 1t?

"Jhe gooSey, my child;
His thoughts are weak and his brain is mild.
IT'S he that levels the.empty gun
AT his timid sister in goosey fun,
And rocks the boat on the summer lake
To hear the screaming the ladies make.
He wears lean pants and tooth-pck shoes,
And hasn't an ounce of sense to lose.
Look at him close as you see him pass.
He looks like a man, but was made for an
ass"
Il From "Never too Late to Love" by Hal
Gosling.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-08

THOSE who want to find the expressions of
the democratic press against Judge Hancock
should peruse the San Antonio LIGHT, Jas. ?.
Newcomb's paper and the mouth piece Of f..
J. Davis Austin Statesman.
We feel obliged to the Statesman for this
notice. If people will read the LIGHT with
care they will find profit and pleasure thereby.
The Statesman is the mouth-piece of John
Hancock, and John may well exclaim, save
me from my mouth-piece.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-08
FRIDAY, sEPTEMBER..s, 1882.
EDITORIAL SMALL SHOT.

THE Waco Examiner gives the report o
the Joint discussion between Jones and lrelan(
at Houston, wthou, taking sides either way
The Examiner is very fair and would like to
be fairer, but for fear Of The parry lash.
THE Galveston News says: "The acreage
in cotton, compared "l'h last year, IN the
whole United States, is perhaps not less thar
eight per cent shor'. Inc crop i
from three to five weeks late. There wert
not less than 10000 bales of the crop %
IS8o.S1 on hand September last year, which
went into account in last years crop Stock
in the interior at the commencement OF the
present season are depeted 1t may be
further observed that the crop OF lastyear was
not in excess Of 5,I5o bales. The mis-
take the cotton trade is liable to iall into is IT
estimating the possibilities upon the basis o.
6o,o FOO bales, shown by the outturn OF 1890
81. the preatest..yield ever known. This was
phenomenal year, cotton picking extending
over a period of seven months. Such may b.
done again, it is true, but the likelihood Of
such a result is the question.
THE wool growers of western Texas passed
resolution, at the meeting OF their asSocla-
ton on Monday at Abilene, asking the iegls
lature to pass law requiring scabby sneeP t"
be dipped on entering the state The propo
siton is eminently wise, and IN all such meas
ures for protection the wool-growers shoul'
have the best efforts of the lawmakers; bu
they should first see that no ''scabs' are re
turned to the Legislature, or that they be wei,
dipped before swearing in. The 'scabS' II
legislatures are doing more injury to the PEG
rle at large than scabs on sheep, and goo
dipping seems necessary Fort worm va
zette.
The tariff for revenue only democracy is the
most dangerous disease known to sheep in
Texas. The scab breeding democracy it
should be called.
ISLAM HAS been thoroughly aroused By the
aggression Of the English, and the defeat y
Arab will be followed by religious war ir
which the fanatic followers Of Ell Mehdi viii
ayenge their wrongs by deeds Of horrible
cruelty. FL Mehdi himself is now at Khar-
toum and in constant communication with
Arab. We are told by the few correspond
ents whom the valorous but untruthtul Wolse-
lev has not muzzled, that FL Mehdi is making
preparations lol O4oou'e' "oiN 'i1'ii iie 4aS eh-
gagged in since he captured khartoum, and
that the conquest Of Egypt by England will re-
suit in extending the theater Of war to African
and Asiatic Arabia. Then after the English
invaders have been destroyed by the Ma
hometans the long-predicted Arabian empire
will be established. This is the Mosem p, O.
gramme. The followers of the prophet have
no conception of the value of human life.
Cruelty, indeed is an inheritance by all the
Semitic races. Add to this natural appetite a
religious zeal and a belief that all will live
who are killed while the yellow banner of the
prophet is waving, and some idea may be
gained of the opposition the British forces may
expect to meet.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-08

We give the Brennan Banner up as hope
less case: for while it bore itself in very
manly, independent way, but now it gets down
TO the inc. Ireland way of stating things; fur
Their argument is useless.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-08
Gulf, Colorado and Santa f
RAILWAY
CONNECTIONS.

AT GALVESTON with Mallory Line Steamers for
Key West and New York with Morgan Line
for New Orleans, lndianola, Corpus Christi,
Brownsville, AMI Vera Cruz.
AT ARCOLA with |. & g. N. K. K. for Columbia
and towns il Brazoria County.
AT ROSENBERG with 6. H. & S. R'y. tSunset
Route for Columbus, Wemar, HARDWOOD, LrI-
ling, San Antonio, Laredo, UvalGe and West
ern Texas and Mexico; also for Houston Star
and Crescent Route for Beaumont, Orange,
Lake Charles, the TeChe Country, New Or
and East with New York, Texas 4 Mexican
R'y for Wharton, Victoria and stations on
that line.
AT BRENNAN with H. & IT, R'y for Hemp
stead, Ledbetter, Giddings, McDade and Aus
tin.
AT MILANO with l. & G. N R'y for Hearne,
Palestine, Rockdale, Round Rock, George
town, Austin San Marcos, New Braunfels,
San Antonio and Laredo
AT TEN PIE with Mo Pacific R'y.
Al MCGKEGOR with Texas x St. Louis Railway
for Waco, Corsicana Athens, Mt. Pleasant,
CTilmer and Texar.a ara.
AT MORGAN with Texas Central R'y. for Waco,
Ross. Hico, lredell, Cisco, and all points on
that inc.
AT CLkEURNE, Junction of Dallas Division of
G.,C.& S. F. KY.
AT FORT WORTH with Mo. Pacific, and Texas
& Pacific Rys. for all points on those lines;
for FL Paso, Santa Fe, San Francisco and the
PacihC Coast, and for Kansas City, ST. Louis
East and west
AT DALLAS with II, & I. c. R'y; 7, & p. R'y.
and Dallas Extention CT Mo P. R'y.
S5rSee that your ticke re ad over this line.
S5-For full Information address
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B ! R \ Ey & K { RR,
No. US Houston Street, G Sosf
CONTRACTORS FoR-
MESQUITE BLOCK SIDEWALK
Street Paycments and Gravel Roofing.

Parties wishing paving done will find it to
their interest to call and get estimates on their
work. Samples of this pavement can be seen
stour Office. 4-27-Im
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-08

Three large fonts of splendid type for sale
at the LIGHT office.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22
Mr.. Olivier Resigns.

Mr. John B. Olivier, who has been alb
stract clerk for number of years,is about
to resign. He is forced to take this step
for the reason that the Office does not pay
him enough to live upon, and he thinks
that if he has got to die from starvation
he might as well die without the trouble,
annoyance and vexations of such an office
as that of the abstract clerk, where a per-
son has to work twenty five hours out of the
twenty -four, and then be harrassed out of
his mind. The county commissioners APP
preciate the unpleasantness of Mr.. Oil
vier's position, but they are prevented by
law from increasing his salary in any way,
either directly or indirectly, so that all
that is left for Mr.. Olivier to do
is to relinquish an office that
fails to furnish him living Ramsey
county has never had more conscientious.
patient good-natured. accommodating and
competent public servant than Mr.. Olivier
has proved himself to be. Besides this it
may be said that he has brought to the of
fee high degree of education and intel
igence and an idea of system and method
that will leave in the records of that Office
"a monument of patient labor that will be
diificnlt to equal. His resignation is a
public loss
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22
Beard of Education.

The board of education made another
abortive attempt to hold meeting yester-
day afternoon, to consider the question of
making an addition to the Lincoln school
building. Only six of the members of the
board were present, and those not consti-
tuting quorum, nothing was done be-
yond an informal talk. There was no dis
agreement among those present in refer
ence to the need of more school room to
accommodate the rapidly increasing num-
Der of children They all recognized
the fact that st. Paul was becoming city
in fact as we'll as in name. and that sound
judgment dictated that provision should
be made in the future, as well as in the
present, in the purchase of lots, while they
could be obtained at comparatively low
prices, for the future needs of the city.
As the law now is the board is hampered
and the members do not feel like spending
money without authority. Until addition
al legislation is had. they will not vote for
any measure that looks towards
an increase of the debt of the
board, and in this they are wise.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22
Personal.
Geo. B. Winship is in st. Paul
public loss

Geo. B. Winship is in st. Paul
DR.. Beecher and wife have gone to New
York.
DR.. A. Clark, of Ortonsille, is at the
Windsor.
Major Dixie of Faribault was in this CITY
yesterday.
Ajutant Gen. Hawley has just returned
from the East.
Mr.. Prendergast has gone to Chicago to
be gone for few days.
Major Charles W. johnson. of Minnesp-
oils, was in the city yesterday.
Hon. E. McMurtrie. collie ctor of Gus
toms at Pembina, was in the city yester-
day.
Hon. Clark W. Thompson, president of
the State Agricultural society, is in st.
Paul
Hon. c. F. Buck, of Winona. is paying
st. Paul visit and Col. Allen is looking
after him.
Lieut.. Addison left yesterday for Fort
Keogh with 12O men, where he williremain
during the winter.
c. S. Rice. Esq. of LIE Sueur. was IN the
Nh'y JONtOAtidI. ttuNVOd5HI q EItai lscASS
at the Merchants.
Mrs. Gen. Thomas, of New Mexico. and
Mrs. Captain Martin of New Orleans. are
visiting Mrs. Bartlett Presley.
James Smith Dr., president of the st.
Paul d Duluth road, was at Fargo yester-
day. and will probably be at st. Paul to-
day.
Major H. B. Strait of Shakopee, who
has some idea of succeeding himself as
member of congress from the Third di-
strict, paid st. Paul visit yesterday.
Thomas Lowry. Esq. of Minneapolis,
came down yesterday and took ride upon
the street cars of st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis men enjoy little city life occasionally.
Hon. j. B. Wakefield, of Winnebago City
who stands an even chance of being elected
as member of congress from the Second
congressional district of the state. was in
the city yesterday. Hemay be in congress
next year.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22

The delegate to the county convention will be
elected at the following time and places:
The primary meetings for their election will
he held on Tuesday, October the Sd, and viii be
opened at 5 O'Clock p. IN, and closed at z
O'Clock p. n.
The primary meetings VIII be held at the fol-
named places:
At the usual place of holding elections in the
First precinct of each ward, except
the Fourth and Sixth wards. In
the Fourth ward as follows: Five
delegates VIII be elected at the Ramsey Street
Engine house for the First and Fourth precincts
of the Fourth ward, and FIVE delegates will be
elected at the last voting place in the Third pre-
cinct of the Fourth ward for the Second and
Third precincts of the Fourth ward.
In the Sixth ward the election Of delegates
VIII be held at the store of John Minea, on
Bridge street, in said ward
In the towns outside of the city of st. Paul.
except White Bear, in the last place where a
general election has been heid and In the Village
and Town of White Bear, also at the last places
where a.general election has been held.
CHAs. Z. FLANDRAU,
Chairman of the Democratic Committee for
Ramsey COUNTY,.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22
TIE WE SAY INTEREST.
Declaration of Principles of the National
Disti1ier's Association.

Distilier'S Association.
CINCINNATI. O. Sept. 21.-The National
Distillers' and Liquor Dealers association
adjourned this afternoon after having
completed their organization. Following
is their declaration of principles:
We have, by yielding obedience to the
most oppressive laws imposed upon any
business III the country, given abundant
evidence of our being a law-abiding com
munity of citizens; therefore be 1t
Resolre&, That we are in favor of yield
ing equal obedience to the unwritten law
of the land, which impels sobriety, good
order and respect for the opinions and
customs of all good citizens.
ResolreG, That we are in favor of the
sale of spirits being placed on the same
footing as other merchandise.
Resolred. further. That we favor Judi
cious license system throughout the coun-
try which shall equally benefit the govern
ment and afford US protection: the enforce
ment of laws pertaining to the proper gov
eminent of cities and towns. We oppose
fanaticism and prohibition as detrimental
to the rights of the majority of American
citizens. and consider it the duty of all
members OF this association to oppose such
legislation at all places and times. We
make no political ties or requirements as
an association. but leave it to the members
to act according to their own Judgment and
interests.
The organization of the association gives
the new organization the name of the Ma
tional Spirits and Wine association of the
United States. Any person, firm >or cor
pOration may become a member who Is
engaged in the manufacture or sale of
wines, spirits or liquors. The manage
ment is confined to board of twenty five
directors. Among the duties assigned as
pertaining to this board, is to employ all
legitimate means ito check the extreme
and irrational tendencies of fanaticism
and intolerance, and to correct public sem
timent when it is found to be inimical
to the business interests of the mem
bers of the association. They are
also to reforms all abuses calculated to
arouse and justify such feeling of hostil
ity. When national legislation affected
the business of the members of the associ-
alton is to be considered, vote of jail
thirds agree upon any plan, then the board
of directors shall take such measures as
they deem necessary TO secure such legis-
lation. but not more than fifteen per cent.
of the funds for any one year shall be ,ex-
pended in this way. The board of direc-
tors reorganized by the election of Geo L.
Stage, S. Louis, president, W. j. Phillip
zeu, Peoria, second vice president; j..
L. Pratt, Chicago, secretary Edwin Stevens
Cincinnati. treasurer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22
Meeting of Insane Asylum Trustees.

A meeting of the board of trustees of
the Asylum for the Insane together with
the members of the state medical board,
was held yesterday at the Office of the gov
ernor. All the members of both boards
were present as follows: DIR. @. K. Bart
lett, superintendent of the asylum at ST.
Peter; DR.. j. E. Bowers, superintendent of
the asylum at Rochester; Hon. b. B. Strait.
of Shakopee; Hon VIM. Schimmel, of St.
Peter; Major A. L. Sackett, of st. Peter;
j. o. Cayallin, of Moorhead, and Burr Duel
of Winona of the board of trustees, and
Drs. Boardman, of st. Paul. Leonard, of
Minneapolis, and Wood, of Faribault. were
present The meeting was called by Gov
ernor Hubbard for conference in reference
to the future care of the chronic insane.
No formal or official action was taken, the
object being to give the governor some
ideas to embOdy in his forthcoming mes
sage 10 the Legislature.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22
MummieS as Bric.a.brac.

1t is estimated that the number 1T
bodies embalmed from B. c.. 1000, wheE
naturalization is supposed to have been
first practiced, to A. D. 700, when it
ceased, amounts to 400, 600, 900. Some
Psychologists, who extendthe beginning
of the art to much earlier date, esti-
mate the number of mumnaies at 731,-
000, OGG. A writer in H0rasar's Maya
zine shows how productive these mum
mics are to the modern Egyptians:
The modern traveller is not content to
collect merely beads and funeral statu-
cites and such small game. He must
bring home an ancient Egyptian. The
amount of business done of late wears in
this grim kind of bric-a-brae has been
very considerable.
Mummies, however, are expensive
hobbies, only to be INDUCED in by the
wealthy. From ESQ to 9100 was at that
time the average price of full-sized
specimen, while from G10 to f12 was
asked for baby.
The purchaser of the Pinotem papyrus
paid 9400 for his bargain, and it may be
assumed that royal mummy from the
same source would have cost at Least
double that sun.
That Rameses III. was, as lately as
1880, actually offered for sale to a
wealthy American (wbo did not, how
ever, believe in the genuineness of the
article as reported. and declined to deal}.
Is fact fer which i have the authority
of one OF that travellers companions.
Bat the ordinary mumas so.,! IL the
ordinary tourist is OF quite smother class.
He belonged in his day to the lesser no
bility that is to say, he was an archi-
tect, sacred scribe, a civil or military
official.
Such mummies. ranging chiefly from
the twenty-6rst to twenty-sixth dynas-
ties, form the staple of Theban trade.
As for the Theban fellah, mummy
hunting is his hereditary vocation. He
passes his life in digging, finding, hid
ing and selling; his home is an empty
sepulcher his shirt is made of mummy
cloth /; his children's playthings and his
wife's ornaments are spoils of the dead.
His forefathers have subsisted for
generations by this equivocal industry,
and his descendants will subsist by it
for who shall say how many generations
to come?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22
The Drought of 1S49.

"Stranger, I take it ?" observed an
elderly resident the other day, as I
stopped him and asked if there were any
blackberry trees around this way. 81
lodged so. I was stranger myself
when I fust kim here. That was in the
summer of '49. Hottest summer ever
known in these parts"
"Any warmer than this }" I asked
him.
''Summut, summit That summer
of 40 the cedar trees melted and run
right along the ground! You notice how
red that ere dust is ?"
"Pretty warm" I ventured.
Why, sir, durin' the summer of '49
we kept meat right on the ice to keep ii
from cookin' too fast, and we had to put
the chickens in refrigerators to get raw
eggs!"
"Where did you get the ice"
"We had it left over and kept it in
b'ilin' water Yes, sir. The tempera.
ture of b'ilin' water was so much lower
than the temperature of the atmosphere
that it kept the ice SO cold you couldn't
touch it with your finger p
Anything else startling that sea.
son
.'That summer of 40? Well, guess
The Hackensack river began to bile
airly in June and we didn't see the sky
until October, for the steam in the air
And fish fish They were droppin
all over town, cooked as you wanted
'em There wasn't anything but fist
until the river dried upp'
What did you have then %
"The finest oysters and CLAIMS 70,
ever heard Of They walked RICH
ashore for water, and they'd drink apple
jack right out of the demijohn Yes
sir. You call this hot I feel like al
overcoat p
What's your business ?" I asked
him.
"I'm preacher" he replied. "R,
the way, you wanted blackberry trees
just keep up the thumb hand side G
this road, until you come to the pi,
pasture, and there you find the trees
Climb up on my goose roost, and yo
can knock down all the berries YOU wan
if you can find pole long enough. %
Brooklyn Eagle.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22

HOUSING among the ecords of the
past some e1'rAfprisiug seeker after facts
has lcarue. az pay the members Of
the First Cu:talrss received. Each col
ony pa d It's own delegation. New
Hampshire allowed to each all expenses,
a servant, two horses and guinea day;
Massachusetts, expenses and s. a day !;
Rhode Island and Maryland, 40 shillings
a day and expenses Virginia, half
Johannes per day; North Carolina, $50
per annum; South Carolina, $50 per
annum Georgia, 9lO0 per month while
in session.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-22
Father Maguire's Goose.

Years ago there resided in the County
Of Longford, Ireland, an individual not
ed for his thieving propensitles and for
the ready wit he brought to bear in
screening himself from the penalties for
his depredations. On one occasion the
craving of his appetite induced him to
invade Father Maguire's yard, and he
stole from him fine fat goose. This,
however, hung heavye even on his pliable
conscience, and he was forced to ac-
knowledge the theft in the confessional.
reserving, however, the name of the per-
son from whom the goose had been
stolen.
my son" said the good man, s'steai-
ing is most grievous offense against
the law of God. A thief cannot be for
given until he has restored that which he
has stolen. You must therefore bring
back the goose to its rightful owner.
ask his pardon and then come to me
again"
Restitution was not to be thought of,
and SO the rogue fell back on that
which never deserted him-his mother
@it "
LII give the goose to your River
.snee, and ask your Reverence to forgive
noe" ne said.
ono, my son." said the good priest,
GO that will not do. You must restore it
to its rightful owner.'
"But, your Reverence" said the ras-
cal, 81 offered it to the man I stole it
from, and he wouldn't take IT"
eff You did that" said the priest,
Is Won oo1,l1 10 no
And SO Paddy gained his point.