The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-11-01
LIGHT SPARKS.
The Ist of November.

The Ist of November.
The cold weather seems to have been
stored up.
1T is evident that our city is almost unani-
nous against Hancock.
The Maverick hotel employs the heather
Chinee in their laundry.
Hancock is fraud; he lacks the hrst ele-
ment of greatness or modesty.
The B. b. A. bimonthly meeting will be
held this evening in Strives hall.
Arrangements will be made at Temple
Beth Ell this afternoon for Jewish fair.
The ladies of the Episcopal church have
festival of some sort in store for the public.
An excursion from New Orleans through
San Antonio to Monterey will be begun to-
day.
The British association sociable commit
tee met last night and adjourned until thurs
day night.
The Federal court has been adjourned
and the Judge has gone to Austin. lie Will
return next Tuesday.
Some seven miles Of track have been laid
on the Houston branch of the Gull, Colorado
and Santa Fe railway.
See that Austin goes on to all the tickets
for the location of the branch of the State UNI
versity for colored youths.
Preaching on Main plaza tonight at IN
o'clock by Elder Paul Bagley, of the Christian
Church. Everybody welcome
Mr.. Barnard's speech was far superior
effort to anything gotten OFT by the democratic
tree trade speakers in this canvass.
The Hancock committee robbed the
cradle and the grave to get up torch light
procession, and after all it did not exceed 80
souls.
Mr.. Joseph Whcelock is an elegant
gentleman and good actor and deserves
better patronage than he has received in San
Antonio.
The wedding of Rev. w. J. Young and
Miss Maggie Campbell will take place to-
NIGHT at the Soledad street M. E. church, at
seven o'clock.
The use Of the funds collected from the
democratic candidates for campaign purposes,
to bolster up John Hancock is great injury
to those candidates.
MIR. Thad. Smith complains OF the expo
sure of the nature of his canvass for his nomi-
nation. and declares that he did not spend
money to purchase the Mexican leaders.
Mr.. Heiner, the city undertaken, will not
move his office, as some people are under the
impression from suit recently brought to set
tie question as to whether he should pay rent.
Only three cases were tried by the Re-
corder to-day. The defendants were Jim
Bailey, M. OConnor and Ihos. Donovan,
each Of whom was fined SIS for having been
drunk.
Roland Meyer, one of Mr.. Labatt's col
lectors, was thrown from his horse and had his
leg broken this morning. DR.. Beaumont as
sisted by DIR. Graves set the limb. The boy
is doing we'll.
Wallace Trammell, late of San Antonio,
Young man we'll known here and lately chief
clerk for 7. E. Labatt in the government con-
tracts at Abilene, died last night at that place
Of typhoid fever.
The 22nd infantry, stationed here, has
received orders from Gen. Sheridan transfer
inp it to the department of Missouri, Gen.
Stanley commanding, with headquarters at
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Candidates wanting election tickets
should order early and avoid the rush on the
last day. The EVENING LIGHT job office is
nrepared to turn out few hundred thousand
on short notice.
Charles Kreamer, for year and half
an employe of the Sunset railway, died at the
Poor house hospital OF complication OF dis
eases Monday evening. He leaves $4,000
worth of property to daughter ii years
old in Winchester, Va.
David Donaldson, the gentleman who
joined the democratic 'happy family" be-
cause he thought it respectable and was NOM
mated as candidate for county surveyor, has
discovered by this time that his democracy IS
luxury,-the first assessment was $3.50.
The independent county ticket has cap
tured the outside precincts. 1t looks a. 1t
Hancock is going to strangle the local democ-
racy. Had our democratic friends come for
ward and offered to make unanimous thing
of it, the happy family would not have been
disturbed.
"A fire alarm was sounded at No. engine
house last evening. The cause was the igni-
ton of the tower Of Mr.. George Dullnig's new
building in the thifd ward, from an oven left
there by timers who had been employed on
the roof. The fire was extingushed before
more than nominal damage could be done.
Ireland has suffered from five famines in
the last century and three in this. To one
who Ia not close student OF Irish history, it
would seem from these often occurring fam
ines, that the verdant Emerald Isle was
myth, and that Ireland had not sufficient ma
terial resources above or beneath the earth to
sustain her people. British free trade was the
blight that brought about the famines in Ire
| land.
Death of an Estimabi6 Lady,