The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-15
LOCAL DOTS.

-Sprinkling our streets is part OF the
police duty of the city.
Remember the Volksfest meeting on
Monday evening at the Turner hall.
The stockmen of Mason county ask the o.
a. to sit down on the legislature.
We have escaped the frost, no thanks to
"B. d." however.
MIR. Jose f. Garcia notifies taxpayers to
come up and render their assessments.
The rush still continues at Schram & Co.'S
for the great bargains they are offering.
-Stappenbeck' lottery prize was one-half
of the $1,000, which fell to the third prize.
MIR. Wolfson has something to say about
furniture to-day.
| Musical concert and dancing at Jonas
garden tomorrow evening and night
The band performance of the 22nd in
fantry was success.
The man who owns "Chicago Bill'' will
do we'll to call at the LIGHT office and pay his
bill for advertising.
| -Sommers' garden will be open to the
public tomorrow. There will be music and
dancing in the afternoon.
| The smart men of the state now gathered
| at Austin seem to be in good humor Wait
till they get to dividing the spoils.
We regret to say that Mrs. Sim Hart is
confined to her bed by nervous exhaustion
consequent on the recent fire alarm.
Ticket No. 3I3S, G. H. Henderson,, pur-
chased Oct nth, gained the cigarette case
prize in Hart & Browns donation.
Newton Young says he has a field Of oats
at Graytown that will yield one hundred BUSH
els to the acre.
Special bargains will be offered in table
linens, napkins and towels, at
ScHRAM & Co.'s.
Jonas says the weather is going to be fine
| tomorrow, and he wants everybody TO come
out to his garden and enjoy the music and
dancing.
The next annual term Of the German
| English school commences next Monday
Pupils for the lowest class will be received only
at the beginning Of the term.
| MIR. Sommers' invites you to come out TO
his garden tomorrow afternoon and enjoy the
music and dancing.
The complimentary hop to be given by
the Ephemerals at the springs tonight has
been postponed to some night next week. No
tice will be made in the LIGHT.
Great bargains will be offered in parasols,
plain and fancy, this week at
SCHRAM & Co.'S.
| Peter Jonas will have the usual attrac-
tons at his gardens tomorrow, and extend an
invitation to his friends and public to call out
and enjoy themselves.
| John Cunninghom's mania has taken
new form, and he is literally trying to starve
himself to death. He has to be confined in a
cage, having recently attempted to escape and
showing signs of homocidity.
| The editor of the Express is mixed which
side to take on the reduction of railroad pas
senger rates from to 3 cents per mile, but
he hopes for the best, although he stands in
with the railroads.
| If Alderman Story wants to preserve the
reputation he secured in his advocacy Of
street Improvements he had better stop the
kind of work now being done on North Flores
street.
Mr.. Julius Oppenheimer & Co., grocers,
have their card in the LIGHT to-day. This is
an old, established fra in our city and are too
well known to need any recommendation from
us. They solicit call from buyers before
giving their order.
| Car loads OF prairie flowers could be
shipped north-a refrigerating car could be
halted on one of our prairies and moving
machine put to work and in very little time
a car load of Texas prairie flowers would be
harvested and shipped to Chicago or anywhere
else.
| German undertakers do not exhibit their
wares, as is the custom in America. Collins
are made by them to order when wanted. This
custom prevails throughout the European
continent; it is only in the large cities that any
stock of the commodity is kept on hand and
then in an unobtrusive fashion. A few years
ago an enterprising undertaken in Basel,
Switzerland, started business in the American
style and put couple of small collins in his
window. Crowds gathered to stared at the
unwanted sight, and before the end of the
week the police gave notice to the shop-keep-
er that ''the unseemly exhibition" must cease.
The above item from an exchange we COM
mend to the consideration of our city authori-
ties Public sentiment should be strong
enough to drive the coffn-dealers from our
most exposed business places.