The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-19
oURRENr NOTES.

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The assessed value of property in
Texas is $363 ZOO, ooo-an increase of
$40 900 900 since 1880. 30
The lower house of the Kentucky
legislature has defeated a whipping
post bill by vote Of Al to Al.
The duke of Edinburgh accompan-
| led by the duke of Albany and Prince
Christian have paid a visit to Man.
chester and met with an enthusiastic
reception.
A man in Staffordshire once said.
speaking of a youth who had mar
ried imprudently, why, he didn't
want wife any moor'n a toad wants
a side-pocket."
Mr.. Walter Powell, M. P, who was
lost in the balloon, was born April II,
1S4a, and is consequently in his fortieth
year. He is unmarried, and has rep
represented Malmesbury as conser-
vative since 1868.
The camels set adrift in the Arizona
deserts about IS years ago have grown
to very large size. The Indians, whose
horses are frightened by them, are
capturing these camels and selling
them to menageries for triAing sums.
The disappearance of Mr.. Powell
placed the house of commons in a
quandary. Without legal proof of his
death they cannot issue writ for new
election, and Malmesbuy ought not to
remain without representative. What
can they do?
To raise money for her church, the
Rev. Miss Anna Oliver, "the black
eyed girl pastor of Brooklyn, is to issue
900 shares of stock at 81 each, the
certificate of stock being a portrait of
herself. One of her male Pensioners
will take 500 shares.
| A new iron steam yacht for James
Gordon Bennett was launched at New
burg, N. Y, on Thursday. The YES
sci is designed for ocean travel, and is
the largest yacht ever built in this
country, except the one built last year
for M. Henri Say, of France.
| Demetrius Papaoiancos and Athana-
sius Audrichaches had a fight in
Chicago the other day, with another
native of Greece, and he was consid-
erably overcome when they were done
with him, All three were Greeks bear.
ing candy for sale; and business jeal.
ousy brought about their classic dis
turbance.
A special to the New York Times
says: 1t is semi-offlcially announced
that Senator G. H. Pendleton intends
to be candidate for the democratic
nomination for president two years
hence. This announcement is made
directly by John G. Thompson, who
has gone to Ohio to begin work on
plans for canvass.
Mr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr., is
mentioned as possible occupant of
the prospective vacancy in the supreme
court of Massachusetts,. OfMr. Holmes
it is said that he is a man of high char
acter and profound legal learning, and,
if he has not his distinguished fathers
humor, he has many of his other valu.
able and delightful qualities.
Gath: The high prices of labor
and material are checking develop.
ment everywhere. Mr.. Roose, treas
urer of the Garfield memorial church,
said to me yesterday: 1--WE have
raised $4,000 to build it; but the
bricklaying costs SIC a thousand in
stead Of 81, as two years ago, and
lumber sixteen cents a foot instead of
six cents, as it was" The Garfield
hospital is failure.
A new history ofthe Franco German
war has been published in Berlin. 1t
claims that the lumber of men put in
to the field by Germany for fighting
purposes is as follows: "Ohcers, 49,
.Io1 and 1,113,a54 subordinates. Of
these I,I46,35o men, zoe. 900 were
nursed in field of hospitals and 6I2 ,o21
in hospitals for reserves. The lives
lost numbered 9,7o3, of whom 6,a47
were officers and I2s,453 subordinates.
More than A ooo men either died IN