The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-23
LIGHT SPARKS.

Preaching on Main plaza again tonight
at 1890 o'clock.
The federal court reopened to-day at one
o'clock.
-Calletanna Rivas, aged n, died yesterday
in the second ward, from disease OF the hear''
Mrs. Amanda Waters, aged 81, died this
morning from chronic desquamative nePhrlus'
w. l.. Geddens has taken out license
for his marriage with Miss Laura Ward.
The damage done to the pile OF lumber
struck by DR.. Graves in his fall, is very slight.
There were twenty-seven cases before the
recorder this morning, Of these seventeen were
for being drunk.
Considerable alaIm was occasioned on
Saturday night by two revolver shots. Inc
police tried hard to locate them but failed.
Austin has furnished US two candidates
for congress; let us, out OF gratitude, vote ior
Austin for the colored branch of the university.
Before any more tariff-for-revenue- only
speeches are made in our city we suggest that
the members of the Hancock club have their
lives insured.
The B. B. A. entertainment committee
entertained the artists who sang at their en-
tertainment to a neat little spread, which was
much appreciated.
Last night about half-past eleven drunken
party in hack made things lively by danger
Gus driving and rowdy singing. The ponce
tried to stop the party but failed to DO 30.
In order to draw an audience for Stock
dale on Saturday the democrats circulated
rumor that Wash Jones had arrived and was
going to divide time with Stockdale.
Senator Coke will speak here on the GOTH
Now if the Senator will give US little variety
Jet Davis have rest-and i've his opinion
Of Ireland we promise him good audience.
DIR. R. L. Graves is not SO well to-day
and he is confined to his room. 1t IS feared
the old pentleman's system has had severe
shock or he has received some internal IN
juries.
Whisky, as a regular ration, is unknown
in all we'll regulated hospitals. The whisky
business in our county hospital ought to be
stopped. The county commissioners did right
to cut it off.
The fine chickering piano used at the 3.
B. A. concert on Saturday night was kinoly
furnished gratis by Mr.. Sterling of the Alamo
music house for which favor the entertainment
committee return thanks.
when DR.. Graves found that the Han
cock club had taken advantage OF his insen-
sible condition to soak him with Emerson tor
sufficient to pay the expense OF the Stockdaie
meeting, the old man was wrathy.
Gov. Stockdale's speech had soothing
effect upon the Hancock club; they all fell
asleep and one of them fell out of window
and came near losing his life. His fall on
pile of lumber awakened the rest of the
crowd.
Mrs. Barbara Braden, mother of Ed.
| Braden, died on Saturday night, at Ed. Bra
den's rancho. Her remains have been brought
| to the residence of S. w. McAllister, Alamo
| street. from which place she will be buried at
} o'clock to-day.
| -Cayetano Rivas who died yesterday was
an uncle of Antonio p. Rivas, Texas veter-
| an, and a descendant OF the canary Island
entrants, who arrived here in 1879 or 1890.
| He was II years Of age and has been crippled
and blind for many years. A wife and many
relatives noun his loss.
To illustrate the straights our friends OF
The Hancock club are driven to to get up
crowd, they started the report on Saturday
night that Wash Jones had arrived and would
divide time With Stockdale. Some twenty
tive or thirty persons were iouieo ny uti'
capard and Stockdale had an audience OF nifty
persons to speak to.
lay Minter, the young and dashing leader
IF the Hancock club, declared that serious as
the accident seemed to be of DR.. Graves fall.
ing out Of the window he could not help
laus ching to save his life; the truth is, it made
Iudges Devine and Rosenheimer laugh.
\ Phoenix would have laughed its the only
Joke that our Hancock friends have succeeded
in getting off this campaign.
The chairman Of the Hancock club has
called the attention of the LIGHT to a remark
| made about DIR. Graves in one or the other
democratic papers the other day to the effec'
WAS there no way to get rid of the old doc
tor" and that it is in evidence that Judge De
vine sat next to the doctor when he was pre-
cepitated from the second story window Of the
happy family cage. We repudiate the insin-
uatt,on that the Judge tipped his chair with his