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The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-08
Eskimo Weapons.

IF vou were 10 examine the queer
weapons by which the Eskimos Hlah
aye to capture their specimens
of them are in the National museum
at Washington-you would be aston
ished at their roughness. 1t Is very
difficult, especially for the northern
bands, to get any wood, excepting
sticks that are washed ashore, and
piece long enough to make good
spear-handle is extremely rare. IN
most cases, therefore, they are Obliged
to splice two or three short pieces TO-
gether, and this they can only do by
slanting both ends, and binding the
pieces at their juncture with strings OF
raw-side or strips of intestine. Inc
striking end of the spear usually con-
sists of long and pretty straight
piece Of bone, such as can be got nom
a whales or walrus's skeleton. ana
this is tipped with a sharp point OF
bone, or flint, or nowadays generally
of iron. Sometimes this tip is nova
BILE. so that when it penetrates the
prev it will come eff and only be held
oy the line, while tie handle floats
secured Nv loop. Other spears have
each a SKIN buoy attached, thus max
ing it more difficult for the poor ami
NAL to swim away, and also htlping
to fo2t TIE weap0n il the hunter
misses his aim. The stout lines ale
made of seal hide, or sometimes OF
braided spruce roots. The "hooks
mentioned above have wooden or
bone shafts, TO the end OF which
curved and sharpened hook of bone is
firmly bound. Besides, there are
other rough weapons, and a kind OF
act, in all of which the seals hide and
bones contribute 10 his tribes destruc-
ton, and which sre marvels of savage
ingenuity.
Many of them are used later when
the ice breaks up and the E;Ainos
can go out in their kayaks. Tne
kayak is about twenty feet long, but
can be carried by the one man who
forms the crew. 1t is all decked over,
excepting a little round hole though
which the young Eskimo squeezes his
legs and sits down. Then he puts Oh
tight oilskin coat over his garments,
and ties IT down to the deck all around
him thof
tween decks" But, on the other
hand, he must unite the knots before
he can get out; so if by chance he
capslzes, ne must either be content 10
navigate head down and keel up, or
else he must right himself by sort OF
somersau1t, which shall bring him up
on the opposite side-and this he
often actually does.
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that the former ship had not yet ar

rived, nor was she ever heard OF again.
The story Of this dream has been con-
verted iRto quite another shape, and
has been told in print as follows (by
the late Count Joannes):
MRS. Duff, after her widowhood, had
formed an engagement of marriage
with Mr.. Conway, the tragedian, who
soon after sailed for Savannah. A few
nights after his departure the apparent
ghost of the tragedian appeared te
Mrs. Duff in dream. On awakening,
she wrote down the circumstances,
date and hour. Soon news arrive q
that Mr.. Conway had committed
suicide by plunging into the sea OF
Charleston Harbor on the very night
and hour of the strange dream" The
incorrectness of this version OF the
story will be at once preceived when il
is remembered that Mrs. Duff did not
become widow until April, 1881, AND
that Mr.. Conway had persisted IN the
spring of 1928, three years before.
The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-07-08
Railroad Progression:
Pennsylvania Railroad.

Pennsylvania Railroad.
Ihis company is making large ex-
tensions of its terminal facilities at
Philadelphia for foreign shipment.
Within a few weeks the old navy
yard improvement south of the Amer
lean steamship wharves will be put
INTO use by that company, and will
give a surface of about 20 acres for
piers and storage purposes, with five
piers (ncluding the present steamship
wharves) having a river frontage OF
2'Ooo feet and wharfage line of 900
leet, with all the necessary tracks,
sheds and warehouses. The great i'm
provement, however, is at Girard
Point, by the storage company, where
the large elevator will be completed
in July, and the other one in Septem-
Der, ready for the business furnished
by the years new crops. These eleva-
tors will have 2 SOC, 600 bushels capac-
ity, and with the old elevator, ct
Washington street wharf, and the
Port Richmond elevator of che Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad, will
give the port storage for 1900, 900
bushels of grain in elevators, besides,
at least, as much more on tracks. The
Girard Point Improvements contem-
plate four docks, each 1000 feet long,
with water surface widening from
100 feet at the land end 20 200 feet al
the river. These docks are at present
being dredged for length Of 1000
feet, and, when completed, will be
% feet in depth throughout, and give
dockage room for "a Of the lar gest YES
sells of modern commerce to load and
unload at the same time. There will
be the necessary stores and sheds to
acconimodst e all kinds of freight, and
four miles of tracks for storage pur-
poses in the yard, which covers about
95 acres, and can thus hold $500
loaded cars with freight awaiting
shipment. Over $1,000,00 has al
ready been expended on the improve.
ments at Girard Point this year. The
amount of storehouse room required
for cargo is consumed in providing for
the big ships of the present day. The
cargo from one of the larger steamers
of the American Line will more than
FIJI shed 500 feet long and so feet
wide, so that immense piers have to
be provided if a large traffic is con-
Quoted. The Pennsylvania Railroad
is now shipping very large amounts of
coal from the Greenwich piers, which
are busy place. When the present
plans of the company are completed
they will make Philadelphia the best
arranged port on the seaboard in its
terminal facilities for foreign ship
ment, and will accommodate an enor-
NOUS trade. The Philadelphia of the
early future will zee the old Navy
Yard, Greenwich Point and. Girard
Point as very busy maritime porte,
the facilities for access both by car and
ship being now first class.-RailaOay
World.
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w hat is Money ?

The value of a commodity limits its
quantity. Anything which Can be
obtained in limited quantity, with q
certain aecertainabIe amount OF labor,
and VIII oh is divisible, Will serve The
purpose of money. Furs have been
employed in some countries as money,
cattle in others as in the ''Iliad, ?" in
the estimation of the respective values
of tie shields of Diomedes and Glau-
Gus, the one worth nine oxen, the
other hundred oXen-bricks of tea in
Tartary, cowries in Africa, rock-salt
in Abyssinia. Other African tribes
calculate in nocutes, money of the
mind, which has 10 subs lance CORE.
spending to it, but the value contained
in which has been sufficiently in.
grained in their minds to answer the
purposes of measure of value. Bull
lion is chosen because it complies with
thes two conditions, difficulty OF
acquisition and divisibility, bstter
than any known substance. Is it not
strange that we should turn this ser
want into our master, and elevate that
which is mere medium for avoiding
the inconvenience of barter into an
indispensable necessary ollie, hardly
secondary to food and clothing If by
some CONFUSION of nature the precious
metals, gold and silver, were utterly
destroyed, the world would be i'm.
poverished by the loss of commodity
on the discovery and manufacture of
which much labor and time had been
expended; but the only result would be
that we should have recourse to some
other continuance. The main business
OF ute would go on as before, and the
only difference would probably be that
we should be obliged to have recourse
TO paper currency, based on what
ever might &c found, after careful con.
sideration, to be the most convenient
or least inconvenient standard of
value. The question would be, as it is
now, question of remedying the IN
conveniences of barter by providing
some means of fixing prices. That
would be all.
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Discussing the Circus Question

"Eh, Bill, yer couldn't go to the
circus yesterday, could ye? Had ter
stay ter home and mind the baby. O!
fore I'd miss circus like that. veh
Bet yer old boots, I wouldn't STAY to
home. Oh, no."
Il suppose you went" said Billv
sneeringly.
"Wen5? Well, didn't. Biggest
There now" said Billy, holding
up his hand warningly, "don't give
yourself dead away by takin' of this
magnichude of that circus. Of course
you went You'd go to any two-for-s
cent show, and then go around talkinl
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Scientific Research.

To keep machinery from rusting
take one-half ounce of campher, dis
solve in one pound Of melted lard take
off the scum and mix in as much fine
black-lead as will give it an iron
color. Clean the machinery and
smear with this mixture. After
twenty-four hours rub clean with a
soft linen cloth. 1t will keep clean
for months under ordinary circum-
stan ces.
The Nature reports that Mr.. Bar
ham IAN experienced surveyor is TO start
soon for Western Africa for the pur>
pose of making a survey for light
railroad from the Gold Coast through
the little known gold mining region
of Wassaw. If the railroad is built it
will open up a country rich not only
in the precious metals but in palm oil i,
india rubber and other valuable arti-
cles of commerce
A curious electrical phenomenon
was recently witnessed during a
thunderstorm in France by M
Laroque. The tallest of a group of
lilies was enveloped in diffuse violet
glimmer, forming an aureole around
the corolla. The light lasted eight or
ten seconds. On its disappearance the
pollen of the flower was found to have
been scattered, evidently by the cleo
trio fluid. It is not stated that the lily
was otherwise injured by the remark
able manifestation.
The crayon pencils now much used
by children have been found to be
colored with poisonous dyes. The
Dublin Journal of Medicine has an &C.
count of child VINO wa, taken with
all the symptoms Of poisoning, for
which he was treated with emetics
and purgatives. The vomited matter
was marked by particles of green
substance containing copper, and the
discharges from the bowels bright
green fragments. The child was sick
for month. 1t was found, on exam
ination, that he had eaten a part of a
green crayon colored with arsenite Of
copper.
Attention has be en- called to some
new fac in relation to color blind
ness. Careful investigations have
shouvn tho Ch,pcsa ao6 NubjapS +o no
practically free from the defect. DR..
Roberts has observed that color blind
ness is most common among persons
of reddish or red hair and it il prev
alent among the Jews, who are the
most decidedly red haired of all known
races. 1t is thought probable, there
fore, that there may be some correla-
ton Of color. blindness with pigmenta-
ton, and indirectly with racial peculi-
arities.
The tides, say Nature, are increas-
ing the length OF the day. AT present,
no doubt, the effect of the tides in
changing the length of day is very
small. A day now is not appreciably
longer than day hundred years ago.
Even in thousand years the change
in the length of the day is onlya frac-
ton of q second. but the importance
arises from the change, slow though it
is, lies always in one direction. In
millions of years the accumulated eff
feet be comes not only appreeiable but
even startling magnitude.
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| thick fair beard; and then they both

mounted their horses and rode away
Whom they were gone the lad came
out of his hiding-pIace and ran into
the forest. 1t was this same young
fellow, saved by the intelligence, the
GOODNESS and the childish grace OF
little Julia Ravaude, who, when she
was Is years old, came and asked for
her hand and it was their wedding
promenade which I have told you
about.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
Real Estate Transfers.

Rachael J. Knox and Martha Knox, execu.
tors OF the estate of w. b. Knox, deceased, tc
J. r. Mason and George Paschal, lot 7 in
block 4, north of Upper Labor ditch; consid,
alton, $3.50, part payment of legal services.
H. B. Adams and E. d. l.. Wickes, by
warranty deed, to Ed. Diesselhorst, lot No.
IS, in block 81, fronting 1874 varas on Nolan
street; consideration, $375.
John Lazelere, by warranty deed, to John
II. Martin and Lengnia Martin, lot 7, 8 and
9, subdivision No. 6. west of the San Pedro
creek; consideration $3.50.
John J. Bell and frankie L. Bell, his wife,
by deed, to II. P. Leng, of Fairfield, $40 acres
on Howard creek; consideration, $500.
III. 2. Lentz and Amanda Lentz, his wife,
to Jason McNay, 64o acres on Howard creek;
consideration, $500.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
Personal.

Byron Won Raub, of Don Carlos rancho, is
in the city again.
G. w. Angle, of Palestine, is at Eord's
hotel.
Mr. ]. F. and Mrs Camp, of Floresvle. are
located at TIord's hotel.
Capt Crouch, the cattle king, of Pearsal, is
staying at the Menger hotel.
T. w. Pierce, jr., general passenger agen,
for the Sunset railway, is in the city.
Mr.. A. M. Cohen is confined at home by
sickness.
Major Wasson. paymaster, U. S. A., is
quartered at the Menger hotel
II. B. Litlefield, of Gonzales, is at the
Menger hotel.
Hon. John Ireland, of Seguin, arrived a
the Menger hotel yesterday.
Mrs. Hope Waite, of Austin, is a guest a
the Menger hotel.
Judge Il. I. Boone will 60 to Austin to-mor
row to attend matters in the supreme court.
Mr.. John II. Repsdorph, awning and ten
manufacturer of Houston, is in the city, or
business.
Messrs. T. w. Pierce jr., c. C. Gibbs anG
{. E. Miner, leave by special train tonight
for the west.
J. W. Pierce, jr., general passenger agen
of the Sunset railway, arrived this morning ir
special car.
Mr.. Geo. Williamson having sold out his
cattle interest on the Rio G.ande is back home
again.
Mr.. La Grange, editor Of ola Revista,
Monterey, has returned from a visit to Eagle
Pass, and expects to visit Galveston and St
Louis liz the interests of his paper.
Count De Keroman goes to Castroville to-
morrow to be in attendance at court, his case
having been transferred from Kerr county to
Medina. Developments have been made in
regard to the affair of which the count is
charged that prove conclusvely that he was
entirely innocent of the charge. These facts
being in the knowledge of the prosecuting
attorney should cause the Count to be prompt,
" acquitted.
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10 Cents a Week

consider and take final action on the report of
the committee appointed March s, 1881, to
mature and report to the national committee a
plan for securing to the several congressional
districts the right to elect their own delegates
to the next national convention.
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS.
Washington, April I5.-The house republic
can caucus last night adopted resolutions pro-
vldlng ior prompt action in all important mat
tiers pending The resolutions favor II O'Clock
for the hour of meeting and night sessions
when practicable. The tariff commission bill
will be passed as soon as the debate is con-
Guided, and the election cases pushed forward
and disposed of as rapidly as possible 1t was
also decided that the present rules of the
mousse are broad enough in scope to allow the
majority to proceed in the manner indicated.
STANDING BY THE SENTENCE.
Washington, D.. c., April r5.-The presi-
dent has notified General Fitz John Porter, in
answer to his petition for relief from the SEN
fence OF court martial, that he can do nothing
IN the case, as it is entirely beyond his power.
This action is based upon the opinion of At
torney General Brewster and received the
unanimous concurrence of the cabinet at IFS
meeting yesterday.
rNEE lFADE MEEIlNG.
New York, April ia mass meeting of
the New York Free Trade Club was held last
night to advocate the repeal of the tax on raw
materials and to reduce the duties on manufac-
tured products. Speeches were made by f.. X.
Wheeler, Senator Vance and others. Resolu-
uons were adopted approving the position of
Representative Hewitt.
CITY RAILROAD SALE.
New Orleans, April Is.-The United States
marshal will Tomorrow advertise for sale the
Carrolton railroad franchise, which has been
seized to satisfy judgments obtained by the
city bondholders, the sale to take place April
10. The city authorities have advertised for
sealed proposals for the same privileges, to
be opened April Fl.
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS.
Nashville, April I5.-The chairman of the
executive committees of both wings of the
democratic party will issue call for state
convention OF the party to meet in this city, on
June 20, to nominate a candidate for cover
nor.
STEWART SIZZLING OUT.
New York, April ia. T. Stewart & Co.
announce that they have determined to discon-
tlnue their dry goods and manufacturing bust
ness, and offer their stock of merchandise and
mill properties for sale.
CAPITALISTS CAPTIVATING.
Lawrence, Mass, April I5.-At the weav-
ers' meeting to-day statement from Treas
urer Saltonstall was read to the effect that if
the strikers returned all abuses by the over
seers would be discontinued that the pay
would at present remain according to the pro-
posed schedule, and that no further reduction
would be made, but that when the market
warranted it their pay would be restored to
the Old hgures. No action was taken by the
strikers regarding this statement.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
Arrivals ut the Central Hotel.

N Manlove, Weldon; Thos Sweeney,
Richmond; G A Frames, Stockton; Eigthal
Fraiz, Cincinnatti; T Phillips, Santa Barbara;
E N Brown, Eagle Pass; ] c Foggett, w H
Goodrich, Laredo; w F Buttermore, Con-
nelsville; J H Skinner, Santa Rosa; T II
Madison, McKavett; J c Henderson Illinois;
Byron Won Raub, Don Carlos Ranch; ] c
Strickland, H McGrew, Luling; ] MCGOWAN,
Taylor; S Conrad, II Conrad, AUSTIN. G.
Trave, Galveston; B Hacking, Vt; Frank
rabbi, A II Menley, Corpus Christi; ] r
Gentry, Houston.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
MOrtuary Report for the Week Ending
April 18th, 1882

In ward I, on the Sth instant Ignacio San
cnez, male, months, Mexican; bronchitis.
In ward 2, on the 10th instant, Helene
Wombach female, aged "a, German; tuber-
colosis Note: buried by the city
In ward -, on the 10th instant, Francisco
de la Ros, male. aged IS, Mexican; tubercolo-
sis. Note: buried by the city.
In ward l, on the 10th instant, Mateo Salas,
male, aged 7 months, Mexican; marasmus.
In ward I, on the I3h instant, Rosa Runge,
female, aged IS years, Texan; uterine hemorr-
hage, also child, stillborn.
In ward 1, on the 18th instant, E. M. Davis,
female, 4 months, Texan; cause Of death, IN
known.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
ST. LOUIS MARKET.
A Scene at "a Wedding.

AS Henry Williams (col) was about being
married to Mary Mobiles, at a house near the
Sunset depot, another negro-a rival-ap-
peared upon the scene, and exclaiming 81 am
here" drew razor in very threatening
manner, nearly cutting the bridegroom's ear.
The bridegroom was somewhat scared and
hurried off for policeman. Ultimately the
man was removed and the marriage ceremony
Droceeded
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
Menger Hotel Arrivals.

J B Fraser, Isadore Myan, New York; +
Markowitz, Ed crarty, Galveston; Fl & Mrs
Wolf, Marion; r Van Slyke, New Orleans
Thos McNeal, Jno Ireland, Seguin; C f Viii,
lesley Colorado; Mrs Hope Waite, Austin; {
b Webster, Independence; G D Jackson
Dallas; S futile, Frio; H B Little6eld, Con
zales; August Klant, New Braunfels; J K
WATSON, US A; J P Laird jr, Ottawa, Kaasss
w Letson, Desmoines; w Lockridge
Nevada.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
District Court.

The Hon. G.. H. Noonan presiding.
- Shelley was convicted this morning of
theft of cattle and was sentenced to two years
imprisonment.
Julia Brown, in an appeal case from the
justices court, peladed guilty to an assault and
was fined SIS.
Robert Hanskke, subject of the emperor
of Germany, aged s., who arrived at New
Orleans on July 4, 1866, received his natural
ization papers as citizen of the United
States. Mic Tengg and c. II. Mueller being
the asserting witnesses.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
HOrd's Hotel Arrivals.

J II David, Bourbon, Ca; G. w Angle,
; f Wiley, Palestine; ] F and Mrs Camp,
Floresville; II II Burbank, Laredo; Vidal
Cara, Lampasas; T ] Lee. Fort Ewell: d J
Crouch, Pearsall; A A and Mrs Kelso,
Uvalde; d Jones, Laredo, F Smith, Pales-
tine; w O Kretsinger, Uvalde; ] A Depoys-
ter, Houston; X Parisk, Medford; Ed Pin
ney, Carthage.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
Vance Hotel Arrivals.

William Elliott, Ontario; F Gerhardt, La
redo; ID Pillman, S w A Co; G. w Hicke
Nashville: T McMullen, Chicago; w Thorn
ton, Seguin; Jesse Woodward, Navasota; "
H p Douglass, Seguin.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17

On Saturday a man whose name not as
certained, dropped a pistol. In falling the
hammer struck against stone, causing it to
explode, and the shot entered his leg ascend
ing towards the thigh. DIR. Adolph Herff was
called to see him, and he is now apparently
doing we'll, although the ball is still lost IN the
flesh.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH,
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, April II, 1870 p. m. - Cotton
firm; middling uplands 6II-I6d; middlinr Or
leans 6Hd. Total sales 1900 bales.
GALVESTON COTTON MARKET.
GALVESTON, April IS. - Cotton-receipts
1874 bales.
NEW YORK COTTON FUTURES.
New York, April II. - Cotton futures
closed barely steady; September I2.3s-36;
October 1850; November H. 4S-49; Deem
Der II.49-5o; January II.6o-62. Total sales
Io4, 600.
ST. LOUIS MARKET.
ST. LOUIS, April I7.-Flour-firm.
Pork-slow; jobbing $3.50.
Dry salt meats quiet; shoulders, $7.Io;
long clear, 5000; short clear, SIo.ss.
Bacon firm; shoulders $780, long clear,
SIIH; short clear, IIH.
Lari-quiet, NE.
Wheat-hingh; ST.. "a cash; $L44@L3sI
May; ;$I.249s@SI.25H June; $I.I249$II3
q July.
Corn - firm; 7sH@76Hc cash; 7s1S@76
June; 76N(9764c July.
Oats-low; 52Hc bid cash; soc bid June;
42C July.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
An Open Letter,

tits always a pleasure
to see old friends and
to be in a position to
make new ones. This
we are glad to say,
is the case with the
old established house
of A. MORRIS, cor
ner of Commerce and
Yturri streets. Their
spring stock of cloth.
ing, Hats, Boots and
Shoes, and Gents
Furnishing Goods,
ETC., is now nearly
all in and having
been selected with
the greatest care IN
New York and Bos-
ton, they are enabled
to offer this season
greater inducements
than ever, as we'll in
prices and quality as
in assortment. Par
ticular attention is re-
quested to their line
of Straw and Felt
Hats. BY giving
them a call, we feel
assured, you will
never regret 1t.
A. MORRIS, Commerce Street
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17
Marriaye Licenses

VIM. Johnson (col.) took out license for
his marriage with Mary Ware (coD.
On Saturday evening Henry Williams
(col.) also obtained a license for his union
with Mary Mobiles, (col).
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17

The Californian society had a very inter
esting meeting in the secretary's (Mr. Brice
Grimes) Office on Saturday evening, under the
presidency of Mr. A. G.. Clark.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-17

Mr.. longfellow four times declined foreign
missions rendered him.
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consider and take final action on the report of
the committee appointed March 5, 1851, to
mature and report TO the national committee a
plan for securing to the several congressional
districts the right to elect their own delegates
to the next national convention.