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The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-04
VENDORS PREDICTIONS.
General Forecast Of the Season I8s

General Forecast Of the Season 1882,
From Vennor's Weather Bulletin for May
Out OF the thirteen long-range and general
predictions which have given forth and caus-
ed to be published in the leading newspapers
of the day and in my yearly almanacs between
the years of 1875 and 1882, only two have
been seriously tout" or astray with respect to
the summer season. This statement is not an
empty assertion, but on the contrary one thai
IS capable OF proof. For the verification of
these predictions does not lie in my own trans
latlon OF them, but in each case has been gath
cred from the telegraph reports of the day, and
Just as these have appeared in the daily Jour
nails in which the predictions were first pub
lished. Having said this much on by-eone
forecasts l desire now briefly to give brief
but comprehensive outline of what, in my hum
bic opinion, are likely to be the most remark
able features of the summer and autumn of
the year 1882:
Flrst-A season that will we'll merit the
designation OF cool to cold and wet, generally.
Not that there will not be terms Of summer
warmth and even intense heat for periods,
but rather that these last will appear in the
retrospect as of but comparative insipnif-
canoe, or as the exceptions to the general
rule.
Second--The season will be marked by
not only great precipitation, but by mugei-
ness OF atmosphere, generally, caused by the
reeking condition of the earth and the long
continuance of clouded sky. This will result
in periods of extreme sultriness and heavy
weather, during which the thunder and hail
storms will occur In other words, the sum-
mer will be the reverse of clear and dry.
Ihird-There is likelihood OF June and
| August frosts in northern, western and south
ern sections, and general cold wave may
| occur toward midsummer.
'Fourth-The autumn months will continue
moist September will probably give rains
and floods in Western Canada and in western
| and southern sections of the United States.
October will be much the same, with early
| cold and snow falls. November will begin
the winter of SS2-83-a winter likely to be
| memorable on account of its exceptionally
| heavy snow-falls and very cold weather over
the whole northern hemisphere. That "a cold
and wet summer is invariably followed by
cold and stormy winter" is truth now SO
we'll proven and borne out by the testimony of
past records that we can not lightly put it
aside; and if we have good and sufficient
grounds for predicting the former-as we most
assuredly have at this time-it is but right
that we should warn the people Of the latter in
good season.
Fifth and last The approaching season will
probably be the first Of couple of wet sum-
mers, and, as 1882 is, so is 1883 likely to be.
But hese we must stop for the present
HENRY G. VENNoR.
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PERSONAL.

Mr.. G. w. Reynolds, of Wharton, is
again in town.
It. Caroln and James McLin have ar
rived from the front.
J. II. and Mrs. Katie Burns, of Fayette,
are at the Hord hotel.
Mr.. George Martin, of the Pleasanton
Monitor, is in the city.
John T. Lyle, the celebrated stock man of
Castroville, is at the Hord.
John Malone and J. w. Gillett, contractors
on Devils river, are in the city seeking la
borers.
VIM. S. Anderson, son of Representative
Anderson, returned from Austin last night,
where he has been on visit to his father.
Mrs. M. Half and family arrived yesterday
from New York after an absence of two
years, and are living in old home on Soledad
street.
Mr.. J. Clayton, accompanied by Miss Will
hanson and the Misses Mary and Emma
Clayton, have arrived at the Hord hotel from
Hayes county.
Maj. Ike Stafford, of Houston, and now a
Mexican bonanza king, is in the city on his
way to Mexico to spend a few weeks at the
mines of the Anglo-Texas, Mexican Mining
and Smelling company, near Nillaldama.
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THE SILENT EDITORS.

1t has now been several days since the edi
torial excursion left Houston for California,
but not word has been heard from these pen
Gil drivers. They have been on railroad
train all the time, in palace car, with tele-
graph lines at their command, and passing
trains with postal facilities, and yet not word
from them to their several papers. The warm
impulses and impressions Of the moment are
to be lost. and when these editors get home
and settle down to their everyday life again
their California trip will seem more like a
dream than reality. We strongly suspicion
the whole outfit as being ''drugged."
The telegraphic accounts of their progress
are anything but encouraging.
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The ordinance prescribing good manners
for hack drivers and other energetic people
who frequent railroad depots, will be found in
another place. The ordinance is faulty be-
cause it does not provide that these gentle
men shall wear badge or number during
their attendance at the depot. As it is, you
can't tell hack driver from any other gentle
man, unless he opens his head and wells at
you.
The fact that Story's baby has been put
in the same cradle with the school tax should
not scare off our tax payers from the polls
You can tell them apart very easily. School
tax is real chubby faced youngster; Story's
has cheek like drummer.
AS soon as Prof. Rote found out that the
Literary Society had concluded to debate the
whipping question, he caved in. He could
stand anything but the irresistible food OF
eloquence that was threatened from that
source.
There was small gathering outside OF
the courthouse this morning to witness the
sale OF the delinquent tax payers property,
and the bidding was very low.
There was no business of public interes,
transacted in the district court this morning,
beyond the release of Sam Monday, accused
of horse theft, upon $1,000 bond.
More light! more light! was the dying CRY
OF Goethe. That is now the burden of oul
citizens cry, when they visit the postofice at
night.
The whipping in the schools is dead is.
sue, and consequently very appropriate one
for our debating club to talk at.
The fines imposed in the district court
last month amounted to $IoI4.Ss.
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Texas Republicans.

THE FIGHT OVER THE MARSHALSHIP.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat
Washington; d. c., April GA number
of Texas appointments, long delayed, will, it is
believed, be made this week. The Office of
United States marshal for the western district
of that state has been vacant for several weeks,
and Gov. Davis writes that it should be filed
without further delay. Russelrs friends seem
confident that he will be reappointed, but the
trends OF Paschal say that Gov. Davis and
Col. Robt. Taylor have filed with the presi-
dent earnest protests against Russell's reap
polntment, and that the president has indcat
ed that he will not reappoint Russell with the
opposition to him. 1t really looks now that
either Paschal or dark horse will carry off the
coveted prize.
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The City Council.
THE ALAMO PLAZA.

The proposition pending before the council
to straghten the west line OF the Alamo plaza
was made the special order for the next coun-
Gil meeting. In the meanwhile it is expected
that the council will thoroughly examine into
the matter and the public discuss it.
The proposition is to draw line from the
Menger hotel front to the corner Of the old
Alamo chapel, and allow the property owners
fronting thereon to advance their fronts to that
line.
If such line would actually improve the
shape of this square, there might be some ex-
cuse for it, but it will not.
This plaza is an irregular opening upon
which the historic Alamo projects and pre-
vents from being aligned to straight edge.
Its irregularity Of proportion at its northern
and southern entrances, cannot be we'll cor
rected, and the very line proposed to be
Strengthened is one of the best features of the
plaza, as it throws the old Alamo out
in bold relief and creates a quiet
nook for this monument to stand in.
If the line is Strengthened the Alamo will
be closed out. The fact is, it would be wiser
to buy out the private properly fronting on
the square between Crockett street and the
Alamo and dedicate it to the public. 1t would
make a nice spot for an ornamental flower
patch, or an artificial ornamental lake or pond,
or a fountain.
The motto of our city should be from this
on:-not an inch to private uses, but feet,
yards, acres to the public use.
If streets or squares are to be Strengthened
let it be to the enlargement of public liberty.
And again the council has not the right to
give up, sell, or do away with an inch of the
public streets or squares. They belon.. to the
public and can not be allianated.
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Court Of Appeals.

Special Dispatch 20 the Globe-Democrat
Washington, April 3o-The first business
in the senate this week will probably be the
consideration of the bill to establish court of
appeals of the United States. The object of
the proposed measure is to relieve the supreme
court from the consideration of class of cases
which have come under jurisdiction of the new
court. 1t has become impossible, in the opin-
ion of many of the lawyers Of the senate, for
the supreme court to transact all the business
brought before it under the present law. This
is not SO much on account Of the crippled con-
dition of the court lately as because of the in
creasing magnitude of the commercial bust
ness and population of this country, which
demands that the court should be relieved
either by increase of membership or by the
creation OF another judicial body.
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The Presidential Veto.

Special Dispatch to the Globe Democrat
Washington, April 3o.-President Arthur
remarked to friend day or two ago that he
had just begun to realize how virulent news
papers can be in their denunciation and abuse
of Objectionable official acts or unsatisfactory
measures adopted by the legislature. He had
observed that in New York, for instance, a
few newspapers would oppose and attack
bitterly the men and things they might happen
to dislike or disapprove, but there were always
a few who would take the other side of the
question. His experience recently is differ
ent. The papers of the Pacific coast are
unanimous in denouncing him because he We
toed the anti-Chinese bill. There are no ex-
ceptions to the rule.
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CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

In the senate, yesterday, the ex- Confederate
disability bill was discussed without action.
The bill creating court of appeals was dis
cussed.
In the house, the tariff commission bill was
discussed. Springer, of Illinois, and Black
burn. of Kentucky, made characteristic
democratic speeches against protection.
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Guiteau, the Assassin.
Dispatch to the Globe Democrat.

pecial Dispatch to the Globe Democrat.
Washington, d. c., April 3o.-The sole
counsel in the Guiteau case now is ex-District
Attorney Charles Reed, of Chicago, who came
into the matter at the solicitation of the rela-
lives of the assassin, and finds himself unable
10 shake off the heavy weight from him caused
ly preparation OF an arguments in his behalf
before the court in banc. Mr.. Reed has been
in New York for week past, making arrange
mentS to place the new edition of Guiteau's
book on sale, and has met success in his en-
deavOrs. The warden of the Jail had strictly
prohibited the sale of the book inside of the
Jail by the prisoner, and consequently the lat
ter has been in a bad humor for several DAYS.
His manner towards visitors who decline to
patronize him by purchasing his pictures or
photographs is OF the most insulting character,
and he frequently orders them to get out of
the corridor in which he is located, since they
do not wish to help him raise money for coun-
sci fees. The guards at the Jail find him very
sullen and taciturn of late, and it is their opin-
ion that he is
GRADUALLY GIVING WAY
under the pressure for his removal, as he
styles it. Physically he is not so robust as a
month ago, and is losing instead of gaining
flesh. He spends the greater portion of his
time reading his new work, and has even dis
carded the Bible reading, of which he was for
merly SO boastful. He appears to realize fully
that only two months will elapse before he
pays the penalty for his crime, and that the
prospect is not at all cheerful to him. Lately
he has shown disposition to find fault with
the manner in which his food is cooked and
served, claiming that so distinguished per-
son as himself merits the best the market can
afford. No attention is paid to his complaints.
however. and he is forced to content himself
with prison fare, except occasionally, when he
furnishes the money to procure some delicacy
that he Graves. A squad Of artillerymen are
still on duty in the jail and will probably not
be removed till offer the execution.
lAalo L. =
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-04

Steele Mackaye is a, work on two new
plays
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Fiesta del CincO de Mayo,

Tomorrow the Mexcans celebrate the
fiesta del cinco de Mayo, in commemoration
OF the first battle fought against the French, in
Pueblo, under General Ignacio Zaragoza
There will be picnic at the springs at night
and the festivities will be kept up for two
days following.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-04
Central Hotel Arrivals,

Miss. Mary Kerr, San Marcos; J MATES,
Geo Smith, Burnett; ] NJ Neil, Houston; Jas
Pluck, Sabinal; c H Welburn, Frio; w C
Ager, Floresville; T Haynes, Hallettsville;
L J Horskey, Oakville; Chas Nunez, La
Grange; H Billings. T Miller, M Farley
J G Robuck, Tyler; T c Chase, Columbus; II
Kapian. Eagle Pass; w S Morris, George
Rugg, Fort Worth; S Rodriguez, New Lare-
20; N Fernando, Laredo; X T Paulen, Carlo
Springs; l. NARROW, Carlo.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-04

1--WE need about six more big wholesale
grocery stores in San Antonio" said an OBJ
serving man who had been out west lately,
and he followed up the remark. with relating
it to be fact that old customers of some Of
our establishments had to stand back until the
new orders had to be filled. There is certainly
fine field for capital in our city in all lines Of
trade.
The undertakes are shading their dis
plays little. The ordinance should be strict
ly enforced. We hope these gentlemen will
take the hint and fall back to some more re-
tired street. We can assure them the people
will not forget them, and will not think less of
them for showing commendable modesty.
Professor Katzenberger has composed
two new pieces Of music; one dedicated to
Col. T. w. PIERCE, president Sunset railway,
the other dedicated to Col. c. P. Huntington,
president of the Southern Pacific.
Every patron of the public schools who is
taxpayer should make a memoranda of the
fact that next Monday the election for the
school tax comes of,
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-04
GALVESTON COTTOl

Missions voice is said to have lost greatly
in sweetness and brilliancy,
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-04
Hord'a HOtal ArrIyaIs

RW Wells, Lavernia; J B Ammons. Live
Oak; C A Skidmore, Corpus Christi; c E
Norton. St Louis; w A Thomas, Little Rock;
W II Goodie, Sydney; f Giapin, Galveston;
w A Policy, J r Wyatt, Floresville; ] Clay
ton, Miss Williamson, Miss Mary Clay
ton, Miss Emma Clayton, N c Wood,
Goliad; J McLymont. w Morrow,
Kinney; John T Lyle, Castroville;
E N Gray, San Diego; James Ellison. Texas;
P Loonie, Galveston; H S Tom, Fairview;
rs Kennedy. Rhode Island; G f Ubley,
Palestine; w Taylor. Texas; H Land,
Duval; J II Burns, Mrs Katie Burns, Fayette;
Chris and Mrs Pfeuffer. New Braunfels; T
Toohey, Columbus; G w Reynolds. Wharton;
A II Fenela, Indianapolis.
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MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, May 4, 1880 p. m.-Cotton-
fair demand; freely met at previous prices;
midling uplands, 65sd; middling Orleans,
6-Is-I6d. Sales 1000 bales.
GALVESTON COTTON MARKET.
GALVESTON, May 4. X Cotton - receipt
s43 bales.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1882-01-04

With the new year. Ayers American AL.
manac makes its customary appearance. 1t
is welcome visitor in every family Its
pages are replete with medical advice, refresh
ing humor, and much information not usually
found in such work. Its astronomical cal
culations have high reputation for accuracy,
and they are adapted, in the various editions
of the Almanac, to all parts of the globe.
While large portion of its pages are devot-
ed to an elaborate advertisement of the med
icinal Preparations of this house, it is a
noticeable feature that many prescriptions
are freely given for the benefit of the sick.
irrespective Of Ayers medicines. These pre-
parations are universally used and appreciat-
ed for their valuable and reliable qualities.
The almanac describes the application OF
these medicines to the diseases they are in
tended to cure. 1t can be obtained free of
charge of any druggist or dealer in medicine
n3+d&wlw
Daily Kennebec journal., 1882-01-04
THE WHITAKER CASE.
What Judge Swain Thinks about 1t.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.
1t is said, on high authority. that Judge
Advocate General Swain. in reviewing the
court martial proceedings in the case of Ca
det Whitaker, has raised the point that the
court was illegally constituted because it
was ordered by President Hayes without any
request from the department commander and
that, therefore, all proceedings are void.
He argued the power of the President to
order an army court martial not inherent in
him as commander in chief. but conferred
solely BY statutory authority, contained in
the 72d article Of war which reads as follows :
ANY general officer, commanding the army
of the L. s. A.. separate army or a separate
department shall be competent to appoint a
general court martial, either in time of peace
or in time Of war, but when any snch COM
mander Is the accuser or prosecutor of any
officer under his command, the court shall
be appointed by the President and Its pro-
ceedings and sentence shall be sent directly
to the secretary of war, by whom they shall
be laid before the President for his approval
or orders"
This article. it is contended. .confers no pow er
upon the President to convene an army court
martial except in the contingency specified
The questions will probably be referred to
the attorney general for his opinion. The
view above indicated is apparently strength
ened by the fact that Congress. some years
ago, expressly authorized the President to
convene court martials in navy cases without
restriction.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1882-01-04
THE SHANESVILLE FIRE.
Many Roasted in the Flames-AgOnizing
Cries of the Victims.

CINCINNATI, Jan. 3.
The scene which followed the breaking out
of the flames, at Shanesville, Ohio, beggars
description. Cries and screams of the suf-
fering victims mingled with the groans and
shrieks of the dying made night hideous,
while the frantic efforts of the victims to es-
cape, as they rushed around with their bodies
burned and blackened, presented horrifying
spectacle. As the floor fell in the shape of a
V, there was no means of escape until assist
ance from the outside arrived During all
the time the fire was doing its frightful work
and six perished in the flames. including Mrs.
DIR. Yoder and her little five years old son,
who was burned to crisp IN its mothers
arms.
Four were crushed to death by the falling
timbers, and about sixty others were seriously
injured, some fatally. Many had their arms
and legs broken and ribs crushed in, while
others were horribly burned. BY the heroic
efforts of citizens, the sides of the building
were broken in, and water dashed in on the
struggling mass, and thus many lives were
saved. The total number of the killed and
wounded will probably reach a hundred.
Physicians of Shanesville, Rogersvile and
Canal Dover, are giving all the aid possible
to the sufferers. The victims are now doing
well, though some more will probably die of
their injuries. The building was a rickety
frame structure, and has long been consid-
cred unsafe.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1882-01-04

Arrest and Coafession Of the MsrA.
erers.


CINCINNATI, Jan. 8.
Advices from Ashland, KY, state that the
murderers of the Gibbons children have been
arrested on the confession Of one of them.
all 1--we in Ashland, and two of them are
married men. They are in the Cattleburg
Jail. Lynching is expected tonight.
A special from Ashland. Ky. says: The
three men arrested for the Gibbons murder
are VIM. Neal. Ellis Graft and Geo. Ellis.
all white. Ellis says Craft and Neal awak-
ened him on the night of the murder and
urged him to go with them TO the Gibbons
house. He went reluctantly. They entered
by window, and Neal and Graft outraged
the two girls. Emma Thomas recognized
Neal and said she would tell her mother.
Robert, the boy, was then about to give an
alarm when Graft struck him on the head
with an axe. killing him Instantly. Craft
then told Fanny her time to die had come,
and amid pifeous cries ofthe child for mercy,
he struck her on the head and killed her in
stantly. Neal then killed Emma Thomas in
the same way. Craft and Neal at first de-
MED Ellis story. but Neal confessed this af-
ternoon and both he and Ellis waived an ex-
animation. Graft will have a hearing Thurs
day. Ellis and Neal are married; Graft is
single. They were all present when Glib
bon's residence was burned and one of them
drove the hearse at the funeral and another
was pail bearer. Crowds have been gath
ering all day at Cattlesburg and threats of
lynching are common.