The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-30
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY,

NlCdt Dlltdlll, WllIOul tIldl, VI q uuIu.
Der of citizens of the United States,
and requesting the Intervention of the
representatives of the states in behalf
of such citizens. He offered resolu-
ton directing the secretary of state to
inquire and ascertain whether citizens
of the United States had been arrested
and are now held in confinement in
Ireland, and if so, for what. length of
time, and for what cause, and if charged
with crime, what steps have been taken
to secure a speedy trial, and if not
charged with crime, what steps, if any,
have been taken to secure their re-
lease, and to report at the earliest time
practicable. Adopted.
Pugh got in lot of resolutions de-
claring the democratic doctrine of
tariff for revenue only; they were tenn
porarily tabled, evidently intended for
use in the coming campaign.
In the house, resolution was
adopted inquiring into the orders of
the postofice department in relation to
the Louisiana lottery.
The bill granting pension to Mrs.
Garfield, Mrs. Polk and Mrs. Tyler
passed.
Stephens, of Georgia, presented a
resolution to inquire into the removal
of stenographer named Hayes, by
Speaker Kiefer.
Speer, of Georgia, got in some talk
about revenue and tariff.
Moses, ex-governor of South Caro-
lima, is again in the tombs of New York
city, charged with a number of swim
ding transactions.
B. RUSH PLUMLy and Gen. ]. R.
Burns, are reported as having fsti-
cuff in Washington. Both OF them
should be compelled to remain in
Washington.
The following Texas postmasters
have been confirmed by the senate:
I. Concover, Greenville, Texas; VIM.
D. Garry, Gonzales, Texas; Rudolph
Frank, Cuero, Texas; Albert F. Hunt,
Tyler, Texas; Alfred Heaton, San
Marcos, Texas; VIM. Killebrew, Mar
lin, Texas; julius Wagner, Indianola,
Texas.
| AMONG English notabilities recently
dead is Katherine, Countess Dowager,
of Essex, at the great age of SO. She
had been a. years peerless and AZ
years widow. She belonged in early
life to the lyric stage. She made her de-
but in London at the age of 70, on the
a3d of September, 1873, in the part
of Mundane in DIR. Ames' now obso-
lete opera of "Artaxerxes." She became
one of the great celebrities OF the lyric
world, ravishing the lovers of music,
and enchanting the devotees of art, by
her bird-like voice, which Leigh Hunt
declared nothing had ever excelled on
the lyric stage, and her superb graces
and refinement as an actress. When
at the ripe age of "A, but charming as
ever. the then Earl of Essex laid his
heart and coronet together with
splendid settlement at her feet. And
having done this, within a year from
the marriage, he died. Her chara cter
was in every way admirable, kind and
generous to the poor and stainless in
purity as the driven snow.
-Messrs. Efron & Co., are perfecting ar
engagements for shipping cotton direct to Liv-
erpool from San Antonio, the coming season,
and propose to make it to the advantage of
the cotton raisers in Western Texas 10 sell
their eottonin San Antonio, instead of ship
ping to other markets, and paying Commits
sions, shrinkage, stealage. etc.
| MIX, Milk.
Do you love good glass of fresh, rich,
sweet, ice cool milk? You can get it at the
Alamo Butter and Milk Depot, No. 32S
Houston street, next door to Bowling Il
Floods drug store.