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The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
Items of Interest from Mexico.

No. 10 of ''La India" newspaper pub
lished at Monterey, February 9TH, welcomes
our Mr.. Clifford, and wishes him success in
all his business enterprise.
The same paper publishes also an adjust
ment of the Palmer-Sullivan difficulty in Mex
leo, owing to the influential intercession
General Trevino, while on his way to meet his
wife at Laredo.
People are subscribing literally to public
library, started at Monterey.
The American stage line makes regular trips
between Laredo, Lampazas, Candida, Busta-
mente, Viellaldama, Salinas and Monterey, in
4S hours, travelling day and night; rate of pas
sage SIS, passengers allowed 80 pounds of
baggage; this makes the trip to Monterey from
this city in three days, at cost of $32. So,
without board.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

In the senate: The anti-polygamy
bill was under consideration yesterday.
In the house: Cox, of New York,
reported bill granting a pension of
$1,000 to Mrs. Garfield. Bill passed.
Enormous petitions from New York
and Baltimore, asking repeal of tax on
bank deposits and checks. A bill for
admission of Dokota to the Union was
reported.
The bill for erection of public build
ings at Shreveport, La, Macon, Ca,
and San Antonio, Texas, reported.
The apportionment bill was dis
cussed and a vote taken, not decisive
of the plan adopted.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

Agood many people are so apt to condemn
wooden pavements without inquiring into the
experience made with them, that we suggest
that some inquiry be made before they are
excluded from the list in the possible improve
ment of our streets.
Chicago is largely paved with wooden
blocks. The experience of that city could be
secured.
Cleveland, Ohio, has some of its finest
streets paved with cedar blocks.
Galveston has one street paved with wooden
blocks; and it has been in contrast with the
shelled streets for several years.
The city of London is substituting wooden
blocks fol stone in some of its most used
thoroughSares.
Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoras, Mex
leo, are paved with mesquite blocks, and the
testimony is that after ten years use these
pavements remain sound and almost as good
as when first put down. These blocks are
cut out by machine, and produced at about
So to $1,000 per 100. They are cut in octaaan
shape and set on end. This is certainly a
lasting pavement.
Our mountain cedar would also furnish
lasting wood for pavements, while the present
method of creosoting pine would also make
that material acceptable.
The great advantage of wooden pavement,
especially upon our narrow streets like Com
merce street, would be its noiselessness, its
cleanliness, besides it is easy upon the draft
animals, there being more spring to it than the
unyielding, smooth asphaltum pavements.
We have seen it stated in the experience of
cities where wooden pavements have been put
down, and have worn out in eight or ten
years, that even under those circumstances it
paid 10 put them down, rather than adopt the
gravel roads; that there was more economy in
the wooden pavement than in macadam, even
if they had to be entirely replaced every few
years while they were infinitely more pref
cradle.
When We leave the wooden pavement we
must either fall back upon macadam, or con-
sider'the more expensive methods, such as as
phaltum blocks, granite or blocks of hard sand
stone.
Washington city has had varied and ex-
pensive experience in the paving business, and
it is the best paved city in America, and one
of the best in the world. Their streets have
cost millions Of dollars, and it is considered
the best outlay that could possibly have been
made.
The favorite pavement of Washington is an
artificial block made of asphalt and broken
stone. These blocks are laid in bed of sand,
and then coating of asphalt run over them,
making smooth surface.
Such streets are easily kept clean, and WASH
ington has neither mud nor dust to contend
with
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
ST. LOUIS MARKET.

IOUlS MAkkEI.
ST. LOUIS, February 49, Flour -un-
changed.
Pork-higher; $I777H March $I7.o2H
bid; April job lots $500 asked.
Lard-better $1,000.
Dry salt meats-frm and unchanged.
p Bacon-unchanged very little done.
Oats-dull, 4lH@42Hc; May. 44c.
Meal-frm $3.7s.
Wheat-opened higher but declined, except
for cash, $I.3S@I.394; $I25H@I .244
March; $I.27@ I.26A April; $I.27@I.2eK
May.
Corn higher, 545S@55c February; s64@
56%c March; s97s@595sc April; 62@624c
May.
GALVESTON COTTON MARKET.
GALVESTON, February II. Cotton-re-
ceipts 1896 bales.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
LIVERPOOL, February II, E3op. m.-Cotton
steady; middling uplands 7-I6l; middling
Orleans I'D. Total sales, 10000 bales.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

On the death of Chief Justice Mar
shall, nearly fifty years ago, tine law
yers of Philadelphia moved for a mon
ument. The project failed at the time,
as is often the case, and only $4,000
was contributed. The matter was
soon forgotten by almost everybody.
The last surviving trustee of the fund
died few days ago, and among his
papers was found a careful account of
the money, showing that by the invest
ment it has grown to $4,000. The
will now be erected.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
Accident on the Sunset

The Sunset train due here last night at 1890,
p. M, did not arrive here till about o'clock
this morning, having been delayed at Marion
by two freight trains going off the track.
There is rumor that some accident also
happened to the passenger train, and that
Conductor Rogers had his arm broken there
by, but Of this matter We can get no exact de-
tails.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
Prof. j. M. Hunt

Returned this morning from Halletsville,
where he has been holding one of his musical
conventions, which proved very successful
The citizens Of Halletsville were so highly de-
lighted that it was unanimously resolved to re-
peat the convention March 9TH, to last four
days.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

Mr.. Butler ohnstone, formerly in
the House of Commons, lent Turkey
some Sligo, 900 to carry on the anti
Russian campaign, and, strange to say,
seems likely to get his cash. His faith
er, son of Lord Dunboyne, very poor
Irish peer, married millonairess.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
DEATH OF JUDGE WI. ALEXANDER

The death of Judge William Alexan-
der, of Austin, is announced as hap
pening yesterday morning at halfpast
four o'clock.
Judge Alexander was an old men,
Der of the Texas bar, and noted for his
learning and knowledge of the law.
He was an industrious, painstaking
man, and has contributed several
works to the law literature of the state
of considerable merit and value.
Remaining a bachelor to the day of
dis death, his social relations in life
were uneventful. He was very genial,
and one OF the most entertaining of
companions, although somewhat &C.
centric in his habits. A thorough
scholar and great reader, he may be
said to have been the most learned
man of his profession in the state.
During the republican administration
he held the office of encouragement.
We are not sufficiently acquainted with
Mr.. Alexander's private history to tell
his age or birth place or detail his
history. Sufficient to say that learned
lawyer, and an upright man has passed
from the scene of action.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
Recorders Court.

ID. Moore, drunk and down; fined SIS.
Chas. Swingle, carrying pistol; fined $25.
John Dodd, drunk and down; fined SIS.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17
i. & G. N. X. II.

Received-Wool, 81, 600 pounds 2 cars bot
tied beer, 3 cars corn, car rye, car oats, 2
cars flour, car produce, S cars salt, car
carts, cars merchandise, 9 cars lumber, I ca
shingles.
Shipped-2 cars lumber, 1860 pounds mer-
chandse.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

The KerOman Cases-HOw Disposed Of.
No 500. The state of Texas VS.. Charles
Dodun de Keroman; aggravated assault upon
Mrs. L. Cupples.
No. 5o7. The state of Texas VS.. Charles
Dodun de Keroman aggravated assault upon
Miss Katie J. Sheahan.
No. 5II. The state of Texas VS.. Charles
Dodun de Keroman; threats against one
Dale.
No. 5I3. The state of Texas VS.. Charles
Dodun de Keroman; aggravated assault upon
with intent to murder DIR. Cupples.
The above styled cases were on yesterday
dismissed, and the Count Charles Dodun de
Keroman discharged. If such proceeding be,
and we are assured it was, dictated by parties
complainant it simply serves to assure us in
the assumption that it was bull-dozing oper-
alton.
The lame of the count has, in consequence
of the charges emanating from that source,
been at peril, and il is but just, now that the
charges have been dismissed, to say, that there
is not particle Of evidence to sustain any Grim
NAL proceeding against him, all newspaper re-
ports to the contrary Notwithstanding. Webe
lieve in giving every man fair deal.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

-Torchon Laces Torchon Laces both
Edgings and Insertings just received at
2-I7-2t A. A. WoLFF'S.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

Mary Oppermann and F. Oppermann, by
deed, to Joseph Dietrich. Part of lot S, lying
on west side of San Pedro creek, at the south
west corner of Laredo and South Eighth
street; consideration $500.
A. P. Woodbridge, by deed, to Henry Prinz,
los acres out of John Neil survey 800 as re-
corded in Bexar county, recorders volume 1,
page 54l; consideration, SITS.
l. & G. Mr.. r., by deed, to J. B. Schwarz,
lot 1, block 1, lying west of San Pedro creek,
between the Alazan and Apache creeks, near
the Catholic cemetery; consideration, SIS.
E. D. l.. Wickes, by warranty deed, to
Mary J. Votaw, lots 7 and 9 in block 3, lying
adjacent to San Pedro Avenue; consideration,
$IIoo.
J. r. Mason, by warranty deed, to w. How
ell Buchanan, lot I, block 81, adjacent to Park
avenue; consideration, $I2S.
J. II. French, as mayor of San Antonio, by
warranty deed, to J. r. Mason, lots l, 5, and
8, block 81, adjoining Park avenue; considera-
ton $29s; payable in six months from date,
bearing 10 per cent. interest; vendors lien re-
tanned.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-17

Twenty-Five female doctors, who
took part in the military operations of
Russia In 1877, have been decorated
by the Emperor with the Order of St.
Stanislaus of the third-class.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10

Mr.. Luck wants to remove the cap
ital to New Orleans; but the people
do not want to do any such thing,
and Mr.. Luck will have to be content
to let it remain where it is. They
have a good house, favorably situated,
removed from the noise ahd hustle of
the metrop ,lis, iu healthy town,
easy of access froiu all parts of the
state-in fact it is just where it ought
to be-and if Mr.. Luck cannot afford
to attend the sessions Of the legisla-
ture there bis constituents should Sc
lect some one who can.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10

Here is the way Mr.. Heidenhniu.
one Of our s;;ate Solons, proposes to
deal with tie numerous petitions sent
to lhe4tegjklature by citizens Of q num-
her If parishes, asking for the prohi-
bi,ion of the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors in the State. He
rises in the House and introduces the
following resolution:
Resolved, That it is healthy to drink
malt aud spirituous liquors.
Thus he proposes to dispose Of q
grave question in o facetious manner,
and insult respectable and respect
full portion of citizens with an uncall'
ed for Jest. We are not advocating
prohibition in this article but we be-
lieve tba: such treatment of the peti
tions of some of the best men in the
state merits severe rebuke.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10
The North Pole Fever.

A nayal officer, Master Lucien
Young, has proposed to Congress to
start out for the North pole, and wants
a ship built ut the expense of $780,
600. What they want to do is to sur
round him, throw blanket over bis
head and lock bin up in refrigerator
with a time lock on the door set to
open in about seven years. When
men get so they have got the North
pole on the brain there is nothing that
will cure them except ice, and plenty
of l.. 1t should be prima facle evi'
dence of softening of the brain for q
man to unfold any plan for discover
ing the North pole.-Peck's Sun.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10
Imprisoned Miners Rescued

Last week shaft Of ;he stec.@a'
pump at the Alta mine near Virginia
CITY broke and the mine was flooded
and filed with steam and gas, which
it was thought would result fatally to
the miners. Two men lost their lives
in q vain attempt to reach the miners
and others were driven back. The
following dispatch tells Of their res
cue:
SAN FRANCISCO, June "a dis
patch from Virginia City, dated last
night, says: Six men penetrated
Alta drift tonight with refreshments
for the imprisoned miners. All wore
ice helmets to enable them to pass the
belt of 800 feet of foul air between
the entrance'and the end of the drift
The men were found in q compare
lively good condition. They had
turned the water from the drift into
their ice water keg when empty
twisted the end Of the compressed all
pipe into barrel of water, and stand
ing around it breathed the air thu
cooled Us it arose through the water
About midnight all were removed
from the drift, .he whistles along tn
lode signaling the event. The bodie
of Bennett and CALLAHAN, the brav
fellows who perished in an attempt t
rescue the miners by means Of boats
have been recovered.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10

Why is il that even among those who abs
hor intemperance most strongly and advOca.e
abstinence most earnestly individual drunken
ness and the individual drunkard, are regards
ed as fitting subjects for jocosityi There is no
man ia the world, perhaps, who regards in>
diligence in intoxicating drink with such con-
tempt and loaihing as the good deacon who
edits the Cincinnati Gazette. Yet the Gazette
scarcely ever refers TO an individual indulger
without something in the nature Of hume rous
comment on the red nose or the husky uttcr>
ance or unsteady gait. IL fairly bubbles over
with fnn--not being, on the average, funny
paper-when il gets hold of an anecdote
abou, an intoxicated German, or any other
foreigner, who Gouby slaughters the English
language Even the temperance lecturers
have rarely been able TO resist the temptation.
John B Cough used TO paint the horrors of
drunkenness the sutferings of his wife and
family, and the ni,ery Of his home in lan>
guage that always. brought the tears 10 his
hearers eyes; bu, his presentation Of the
drunkard himself quite as often excited laugh
ter as tears. Theoretically, there is nothing at
all funny in being drunk, or "slewed," or half
sea over" or "set up, or "full," or in having
run blossom nose. Why should the Sigh,
or suggestion of person in these condition.
he regarded a. funny aud excite laughter a.
De,rod Free Press.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10
Warm Work at the Capital.

The discussion of the lottery ques-
tion at the capital and in the press
last week resulted in elimination and
recrimina.ion, charges and counter
charges, and stirred up sufficient
breeze to make the discussion quite
lively and interesting.
On May SOth Major Gibson intro
duced in the House a resolution for
the appointment Of joint committee
to investigate the charges of corrup-
tion alleged against members OF the
General Assembly, and it was passed.
The next day it was reconsidered and
substitute adopted leaving the Sem
ate off the committee: During an ar
gument in favor OF reconsidering the
vote Mr.. Atkins, of Claiborne parish,
spoke of the report that certain pa
pers-including the Capitoian-Advo-
cate-belonged to ring that was trying
to bulldozc the Legislature into charter
ing the new companies, and remarked
in subs,ance-,he CapitolianAdvocate
says-that while be did not mean TO
say that these papers were paid or
gans, yet it might he said that they
were" This was rather a mild i'm
peacbment, but it excited the indigna'
ton of the spunky editor Of the Cap.
itolian. Advocate to such pitch that
after defying an Investigation, be ex.
claims:
"While we consider that any man
has a perfect right under the constitu
ton and the laws Of Louisiana, to
seek to obtain license to conduct 6
lottery in this State, we have to say
that, whoever asserts or intimates thai
the editor of this paper has been il
any way paid. or has any other inter
est involved in bis advocacy of th'
passage of these lawful charters, thai
to break down q shameless monopoly
is a miserdJ' e liar and a cOntemptiJt
hireiing of the Ho,card monopoly"
And he concludes the article in th!
language:
If Mr.. Atkins in any manner in
tended TO make himself the vehicle Q
, the base slander referred to in tn
above we then apply to him directly
the stigma that We aflix upon its al
thOr
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10
Freedom Had Fooled Him.

81 amt got enough sense to vote at
o ward election" remarked old lsom
yesterday.
why ?" asked bystander.
"Yer see. q niger what keeps q
bacon store at de udder end OBJ town
give ffty cents premium on q silver
dollar made last year. TUX q dollar
wild de correck date. an going to de
store, handed it ter him, an tole him
ter gin me de premium. lie looked
at de dollar, handed me fifty cents an
drapped it in do drawn. l TUX de
fity cents an come on up town. l
have jist diskivered dat Use out fifty
cents. repeats dat amt got sense
enough ter vote, an de Newnlted
States can hab my freedom back at
any time de Secretary ob War will
notify me Oh dat fack."-Laae Rock
Gdzette.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10
w, w. FARMER,

UOCNSELOR IN LAW AND EQUITY,
u Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Cham
rery, Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana i
Has resumed his profession as Counselor, 70
which he will devote cereful attention; and
will invariably require paymcn, Tor his a"Dire
Has also resumed his profession as Attorney
and Solicitor and will practice in the United
States District, Circuit and Supreme Courts,
and in the State District, Circuit and Supreme
Courts: in all classes Of cases, law, eqnny,
prolate, criminal and bankruptcy. "a rev
bankrupt ior will be adopted in 1922 "hI
make the maintenance of raid and the annui
men, Of illegal tax titles specially VII
devote his personal attention TO his cases and
hlI his time to his profession, as his sole
business, 20 the exclusion of all other occnpa-
,ions and cannot he engaged or retained IN
any case without fec.
R6y-O'hce at his residence.
Sept -, lSSl-ly.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10
What Is to be Done with F0ll

Cincinnati Commercial Washington Spe.
cia! |, is said among the New York poliri>
1ians here that conference or consultation
will be held in New York on Mondaytr
Tuesday by the principal stllvart politician
upon the snhl,r; Of Jundge Folgers candid,
cy for Governor. The machine" politicians
of New YORK ci,y, who have been prounne
la Washington this winter, are known to lie
dissatisfied with Judge Folger rs a Secretary
of the Treasury, and to believe iha, sG.ne one
can be put in his place who would serve their
interests better. For his reason :hey arc
bent upon forcing him 10 become candidate.
The Secretary, on the other hand, does not
conceal from his friends his willingness to be.
come Governor, but he is embarrassed by the
fact that should he become an avowed candi>
date Tor the nomin ,tion while still Secretary
of the Treasury, he would be placed in what
many wond consider an unfortunate position;
while, if he should resign in order to become
a candidate, the issue of the campaign might
br thai he would be neither Governor nor
Secretary. II is thought that the Presidents s
presence in New York will be used through a
conference or general consultation, to bring the
matter to decision.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10

One of the eccentricities of Sarah
Burr, the New York miser, who, al
thongh worth several millions, lived
like pauper, was her seeming indifier.
ence to religion. She never went to
church, never read the Bible or pray
er.book, and refused while dying to
admit a clergyman to her house. Yet
she left her three millions to religious,
benevolent and ecclesiastical societies.
Free Press.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1882-06-10

1t took two judges and O whole
term Of the Circuit Court, to decide
one case, in this parish, last week.
This is one of the judiciary reforms
introduced by the present fraud of a
constitution. The sooner it is wiped
out the beiter.--IJerrilie South.
There is little doubt but that the
Circuit Court is failure and that our
judiciary needs remodeling, though
we do not claim to be enough OF
jurist to suggest perfect model. The
court evidently fails to meet the OBJ
iect for which it was intended, for it
can never be rsgarded as q satisfactory
court Of appeals as it is now constitut-
ed 1t is not to be expected that two
Judges will agree in their opinions even
in majority of cases submitted TO their
decision; to fail to agree is an aflir-
nation of the decision Of the lower
court, to avoid this, where neither OF
them consider the decision a just one
they have to agree on a compromise de-
cree, which expresses the legal opin
ion or conviction Of justice of neither
The fact is, this so-called appellate
court amounts almost to denial o
the right Of appeal.
The best substitute for the prcsen
composition of this court that sug
gests itself to us is to have the Cir
cui, Court composed of the Distric
Judgcs-say OF five. six or seven dis
tricts-and have the cases appeale'
FROM district court submitted to th
Judges of the other districts than tn
one from which the appeal ls made.
If the South means that the soone
the constitution is wiped out the be
ter, then we cannot agree with it, br
if it means the Circuit Court we d
agree.