The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-11-28
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT.

Foleer denies the whole story about tender
ing his resignation.
A ten-inch snow fall is reported in Mich
igan.
Thomas L. Tullock. is the name of the new
P. M. at Washington.
Sleighing is good in the interior of New
York.
Thomas Leclare, well-known artist, died
on the 10th in New York, city.
Sam Parker slew Sam Varnon, near Plano.
the other day. A woman was at the bottom
Of it.
The Kentucky prohibitonsts meet Febru-
airy 10Th, at Louisville, to nominate state
ticket.
Tom Howard, our irrepressible theatre
manager, has arranged for an opera hall in
Laredo.
We learn that another syndicate represented
by one J. X. Wolcott have purchased four
million acres of Texas lands.
Rumors exist in Washington that several
prominent officers of the postofice depart
ment will be dismissed because of completely
in the Star Route trials.
A number of New Workers who have been
to the city of Mexico with view. of building
a big hotel arrived at Galveston Yesterday.
The hotel is to cost $4,000. Such an en-
terprise would pay better here than in the city
Of Mexico.
A Methodist preacher named Rev. ]. G.
Wharton, alias J. D. Hull, of Carthage, No.,
was arrested at Elizabethtown charged with
enlightenment, and had with HIM the wife of
another man. The preacher had fifteen chill
dren at home, and the woman three, They
should be sewed up and drowned together.
Col. Babcock, the new Capital builder
seems to be getting out of patience with the
city government OF Austin, and writes letter
offering to ficilitate their movements by hav-
ing estimates made. Babcock is one of the
epublican "bosseS" Of Illinois, and will be
able to get away with an Austin city, coun-
Gil.
E,gin, Bastrop county, has been made the
scene Of tragedy. A Mr.. R. Shirley of
Austin, and Miss Maynard of
Elgin were in love with each other; the young
lady's father objected. A jealous lover by
the name of Wissenant, circulated reports dis
paragng Miss Maynard's character in her in
tercourse with Shirley. Ed Maynard, Coun-
ty Attorney of Bastroy county, Miss Ms.
brother, and brother-in-law named Fowler
decoyed Shirly from Austin to Elgin and w.
ing in wait for him at the house Of the Young
lady murdered him. Miss NJ. protests her in
nocence and the honorable character of her
deceased lover, who was thus murdered in
cold blood in her presence. One OF his slay-
ers was allowed to 60 to scot free, and the
other was put under $1,000 bond. Of course
there is the other side to the story.
The way our public lands have been COB
bled up can be guessed a. by an item that
MADDOX Bros, land firm have paid in Sis
900 first unstallment on a purchase of two
million acres from the state by the so-called
Minnesota New York. and European svndi-
cate. 1t seems that this firm bareained to de-.
liver 100000 acres, but did not have the
money to pay the first nstallment, they could
not make tile, and the European parties
| could not be made to understand how thew
should advance the money TO pay for the land
to the state before it could be sold to them.
the syndicate falls short one million acres, be-
cause of the failure to secure the locations bv
payment of first installment.
There is church in Michigan VIII; h has
been struck by lightning dozen times. and
now, wheneve. the preacher shows signs Of
getting long-winded, and is passing from his
seventhly to his eighthly, the oreanist shlv
initiates the sound Of approaching thunder. On
the pedals. The way that preacher dives into
the conclusion and rushes through i, and Sta is
| the doxology is a caution. The congregation
would not part with that orsanist for a million
of dollars.
An Equestrienne's Death.
From the Detroit Free l.lSrs.t
Our readers have heard of Miss Hnpeo of
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