The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-30
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT.

Since going to Russia Minister Hunt has
entirely recovered his health, which was so
critical before he left the United States.
The Baroness Burdett-C Courts Bartlett owns
the smallest pony in the world. 1t stands IA
inches high, and is five years of age.
Franklin Edison, democratic candidate for
mayor Of New York, is a lineal descendant of
Deacon Edison, who was one Of the early
purltans who resided in Salem, Massachusetts,,
in 1880.
The winter season in Washington City may
be said to have fairly begun. The citv is
rapidly filling up. The demand for houses
and rooms exceeds anything known for many
years.
Nine. Minnie Hauk sold buttonhole boouets
composed of flower and fern for one to ten
dollars apiece at the fair on Thursday evening
IN aid OF St. Vincents Hospital, New York.
The New York Tribune will have to nav
$325o for injuries done to a man upon whom
fence fell, which had been placed about the
tribune buildings. during the course of their
erection in 1874.
The homestead of the late ex-Gov. Wash
ourn, consisting OF full square in the heart of
" 10y VI -" NAoSSc, WIS, mas been sold to
John n. Western, wealthy lumberman who
formerly owned it.
Mrs. Mallonee, who was killed at the re-
cent railroad accident at Syracuse, was a con-
trlbutor to the Century Magazine; and one of
her latest poems was entitled 1.-THE Whistles"
The last sound she heard before her terrible
death was the warning of the locomotive.
Ex-Gov. Abner Coburn is the richest man
in Maine. He is worth almost ST., 900, 600.
he lives near Skowhegan and he drives
about the village in two-seated phaeton
showing evident marks of usage. The horses
are strong and clean limbed, but their trap
pings and grooming evince disregard of ap-
pearances. There are no heirs to Mr.. Columns
property but two nieces.
The members of the Mound Street Temple
congregation, Cincinnati, have chosen the
Rev. Dr. Raphael Benjamin, of New York,
formerly OF Australia, to succeed the late Rev.
DR.. Lnenthal as clergyman. The Rev.
Henry Schneider, of Mobile, and the Rev.
acob Voorsanger, of Houston, Texas, were
also candidates for the position. The salary
is $1,000, and the election holds for one year
only.
A ST. Louis wife, few days ago, became
so enraged with her husband, growing out Of
discussion which had taken place after they
had retired, that she sprang out of bed and
Selling kettle of boiling water from the stove
proceeded to pour it over her recumbeut
sprouse, scalding him SO badly that his life for
time was despaired Of 1t would be Just as
we'll perhaps for disputatious husbands to
make note Of this novel method of feminine
defense, and see to it that no boiling water is
left lying losse about the premises before they
make final preparations for slumber.
1t is expected that in IS months the Gin
cinnati, Green River and Nashville railroad.
from Kings mountain to Nashville, I4o miles,
will be completed. 1t will be a branch of the
Cincinnati Southern, and gives Nashville a
competing route to the north and east. 1t will
be about IS miles shorter distance to Cincin-
natl than via Louisville.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer says that he has been
good deal annoyed by statements which
have been made in the newspapers concern
ing him, and declares that he never expressed
any opinion whatever concerning Oscar
Wilde. He does not believe in INTERVIEW
ing" and regards the American appetite for
personalities as the blamable cause of hasty
and incorrect statements regarding individu-
ais.
A passenger in Boston street car pulled
the vest button of the conductor and was sur.
prlsed to hear bell ring. A new device for
stealing fares was thus discovered. Bell pun
ches are used on that line, and the old plan
OF carrying small gong in the palm OF the
hand to strike when pretending to punch a
slip has become dangerous. SO the plan of
concealing the gong in the vest and connec-
ting it with button was invested.
Miss Burr, Of North Carolina, to whom the
acting Vice President, David Davis, is soon
to be married, is native of Illinois, and has
been only guest Of her aunt, Mrs. Green. of
North Carolina. The engagement between
Senator Davis and Miss Burr was not made.
it is said, until he visited her after congress-
adjourned in August, although he had preyi-
ously shown her marked attentions whenever
the opportunity offered. She is about 20 wears
his junior.
The New York Tribune, Of Saturday last.
says: The baggage of Miss Huger, Of New
Orleans. which was seized recently for viola
ton Of the revenue laws has been appraised
a. S4I5o o5. A few articles were reported to
have been in actual use and consequently
were not included in the valuation. The re-
port of the seizure was completed Yesterday
and the case was placed at once in the hands
OF the district attorney. 1t was said at the
custom-house that probably the baggage
would be released to-day, because Miss Huper
would furnish bonds to cover the amount of
duty. AbraH S. Hewitt and Isaac Bell
friends of Miss IIueer's father, we're said to
be the probable bondsmen.