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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-03-18

A young woman who lives at Papai.
kon, Hawaii, writing of the lava How
which has been pouring from the great
volcano Tor more than year, says: The
volcano is about two miles from the
sea. 1t sometimes pours with great
rapidly; then, slowing up, the flood
moves slowly, gradually on. We took
horses and rode the seven miles that
intervene between home and the noun.
tains with great rapidly, leaving the
pack horses TO take their time. The
party consisted mostly OF women, and,
as yOu know 1 dare do almost any thing.
we were i'll the lava within an hour
after leaving home. We fastened the
horses IN safe place and went out to
the crust; but before we were aware we
were obliged to go back and move our
horses, Tor the hya WAS creeping to-
ward them, and they became frightened
Whilu standing on the crust we could
distinctly near tho rush aud roar be-
meath, no u ground It's way over TIE
rough earth. IL is extremely hard to
get specimens, or rather TO keep them.
Tor they are 30 brittle. Oh, | wish Won
could have seen what have seen
There were the most beautiful cascades
that poetic fancy can picture. The lawn
poured down IN gulches aud CANYONS.
dropping into tho water with kissing
boom aa # a thousand demons wer.
struggling for some mastery; or il
would atealthily creep i,ronnd YOU ara
hem you IN aud cut son on. If moi
watchiul. lthas power OF fascination
that makes the locker on almost forget
himself, and before he ia aware he N In
tine tHruble danger OF being swsllowed
np. 10 follows tue footieps as 4 de-
terminod with relentless hiry 10 ovsr.
t,ho at last, Oar party soleoied a hiql
Nuoii ~ sale diatauae and pitched
tanta Tor the night Three dmrs dur
iag tue night We had - move, for the
lava had turned los emanuel and wa
onmiuB toward ua. 10 increased "A.
speed ~ RAPIDLY thai We could not eo
~ sleep, md We Watched tho creeplHq
river ur rather lake OF IRE, until dawn.
We lnally had the tents aud hefse.
moved acfops deep ravinu and con
alaorcd ourselves safe, 40 our sur
prise the lsyaflshed MOI ouly into tho
iaonth oi tAg suloh bat out Aegosa tno
corner aud poured down lho elde iofm
les tho pcst wonderful easoadgs o., lrc
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-03-18
Wanted a Divorce.

Ben Mullett, colored man, came i'm
to Little Rock, Ark, and finding the
United States Judge, said I've got a
piece OF business for yer to transact. Z"
WELL replied the Judge, proceed. +"
us artor divorce" u have very lit
tie TO do with such cases But why do
Tou wish to sever the tics that bind
you to companion who, in all proba-
biity, is much too good Tor youqr
kase can't get along wid him ledge"
"Himf' -fes, sah--himln ~Yon didn't
marry man, did youYs "No, sir L
married as likely cnlled oman OF yer
ever seed, an l don't want no divorce
from her, wants a divorce from my
son" Prom your soaYH ~Nes-- kase
dat boy IL a monst'ous sight ob trouble,
an'd spens ohory niokle he kin git
his hans ON, "lhoreb no such thing
as a divorce from son. "Dar may
not De IL 90 laws but dar "a wil me.
Mhats DO law tar, li it ain,l to pertaul
q manl Any mau can git . divorce
from his wllci hut gittin one lrcm his
son - QUO 90 dc ipe pinta, Say, now
ledgo, do law ou DO p1nt Of lechnloalt
liy Kin DO anything, CANT yor mako
do teChnicahly, es 20 oblosge "a ale
nau What driv \ tsAsa aaEine 40 Wah4F
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-03-18
Ancient People of America,

At the Academy of Sciences, Prof
John S. NewberrY lectured ON "The
Ancient Civilization of America, and
said IN substances
when the sayages were pressed
back by advancing civilization they
had passed was once the great natural
water gap between the lakes and the
Mexican Gulf, when it was discovered
that they were not autochthonous, for
mounds, caves, palaces and remains OF
cities showed the existence OF race
that lived in the highest style of civil
cation. Investigation and research by
historians, geologists and archWologists
have brought to light much concerning
these wonderful people. They can be
divided in two classes, which with local
differences, are generally the same.
One is the Mound builders, who dwelt
in the fertile Valley of the Mississippi,
following a sedentary and peaceful life.
Mounds built by them and Instruments
aud pottery and copper ornaments
made by them, have been discovered
all through the Mississippi Valley,
They were miners, farmers, raised to-
bacco, and remains of their oil wells
still exist at Titusville, Pa. In num-
bers they probably equaled the inha-
bitants of the region ut present, aud
enough is known Of their osteology to
say t4ey were of medium size, fair pro-
portions, with cranial development
not unlike cur red Indian. Their teeth
were large aud strong. They buried
their dead with great ceremony. When,
and why, and how the mound-builders
disappeared we do not know. Their
al innate fate was probably entire ex-
tinction.
The sec md class Of these early
Americans was the alace builders of
the table-lands, n class that was spread
from Chill, on the south, to Utah, on
the north reaching their greatest de
gree of power and civilization in Cen
trail America, Mexico, and Peru. The
,,;e;s.s - Nl,s;i-tas. ,fai.s %eEe.,tYpcs, gi
S6is raC,, and though when swept from
the earth by the brutality Of Pi2arro
and Core en- .hcir glory was already in
its decadence We can scarcely conceive
of the oxtut + thoir nngnificerce.
This Mexican and Peruvian era far sur
passed any thing in our dly IN the con
-truction OF public works roads, aqne-
ducts, palace, and ,itos The unm,ca-
dsmized road that led f,om C,ilao to
Lima exceeded IA cost the Union Paci.
tic Railroad, aud # all the forts within
our borders were put into one it would
not equal the fortified structure that is
yet 20 be seen Oh the Pcuylaa coast
Louis IL il'mau, an engineer who wa.
with MNimillun, has described the
ruins OF a largo seaport town ON the
Pacific coast OF MeNiau. Tue Central
American country aooumds in evidences
OF the Aztec race, and this winter many
archie llugists have gone thither, aud
from their labors we shall soon learn
more OF this wondrous people. Their
origin is lost in antiquity. They may
have come from the seed borne acros,
the sea by Phmnician traders . Ierhaps
they spraug from tie tabled race oil
Atlantis They were either indigenous
or imported in an embryotic state from
the Oriental Archipelago the latter
the most likely"
The Profess, illustrated his lecture
with stereoscopic views of the remains
Of these people.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-03-18

10 is a long tune since Che claim
could ho pat forward that cotton l.
King ia America Hay, oven, Is great
or aa a crop. and cotton Is but fourth
among tho groa; agricultural staples
IN 1850 ooru was the chief product nl
thN United States holds iiav4luo helms
tdf09lllin whoa, followed 40 st7i.
a0l eaOi hiy was uozi, a. fall,sll.OaA
sNllo Che value Oi eeiipn was hui little
more thm thirl 81 Chat 80 coru,
bplng $3.50 a0d2ia IhQ Importance VI
the hoy crop u steadily lsreAliug and
uo doubt twill soon nkaAh pllge seq
end onb % that ~ eofuol itlA Vdd al
Aat rsamiqesiaa that euiil. which $500
illllt au ARTICLE m esloyA sNould ho
iho losilus crop hnl uNl0 a 81 irnn
thti 90 a. ult ln danAud nf llsi, itlt As
largely e2rpFlel ~ pafs Ali beet
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-03-18

TEXAS TnP!Cg,.

The orange trees at Galveston are
in bloom.
a knitting factory is soon to be
opened up in Sherman.
Corn is scarce at - bushel in
Mcnard county.
Roses have bloomol ont of doors
Mt San Antonio during the whole win
ter
The looms ordered by the Cucro
@ ton mills are now en- route. Cotton
cloth viii bo made at the mills, The
Bulletin says that other manufacturing
industries will speedily follow
Geo. West, of Lavaca county, has
bought the ranch of d. II. FAINT, ON the
Nueees river The purchase involved
10000 acres OF land vt 100000, and
$4,000 Cattle at SIS per head The
amount of money that changed hands
was over half million dOlais.
The Hood chat is now prevailing in
the Brn2us river has deepened tho
channel through the bar at the mouth
OF tht stream to full twelve feet The
t;vhor tcleernnh noles wills and other
1oLris hro,oLt dn,vr by tho rnrrant
A terrible rain and wind storm,
which in some places assumed the char
acter OF a destructive tornado, passed
over tue central portion OF =, the 'otlte
On the hlBut Oh t''e %'Uh VI Soi ''i =
Oonsideraole uamase wn9 uone W
oullulnBS auu lencus' D"V 'O i"i 10
ie"ileu no lives wore io'''
Aworo, .he cadets RECENTLY dis
r,issa5 Grnn. the naval academy for in.
rni,.,cncv in, thcir studies was Bean.
r,nnt n Hrck of Trxns. who shot
III, -,,,, ,,'n,, no ~ heina, o,iv.n a.
~, r I'i,l, go,rota,,. r'i,9c9I,, Las
80 "a ,',,,'ie ,,ma,,
~" $50 ~, a. o kaord raa,1na,,,t.
IL ,, w. p''irnt ,,,l
grSSrtinc, hin, iesvo wi ,Lont INV mil
I%n,',rye mana i''
The Kansas City journal has been
talking to a successful Texas sheep man
who considers cattle m lch more easily
kept and more profitable on Il large
scale thnu sheen. He states that the
day when the sheep men can operate
in Texas without buyiug more or les,
land is past. thus making it necess t,
for men to hive considerable capltal
for buying and fencing land to insure
snecess
%'gDe =, CoD'oc'ot' hySSrs; isaac
Siouu, ~ u O"lhes uilu a. NJ Oulp'
o. ualuesEill1, no" IN .h9 Guy ana
'"os'7' "V 'ilo / i"u'ois "io tn'oo Vi Ine
aea'lost Shippers VI ouy.ie III tna'
o'a'e' "io nt n,3 come 70 % ~; LOUIS 70
''ah u 'ne h,ssoull 4 Hcilio rnllro" ',
souio Ie rem. ioi lo9se9 'noS iuei
sliaV they llNYe sl's.ulleu sine 'une
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-03-18
DO You Want Eggs,

Every one that has fowls and wants
them to lay eggs next winter should be-
very careful how he manages them
during August and September, or
during the moulting time Some peo-
pie let their hens nearly staryo during
the mounting time, but when real cold
weather comes they begin to stuff them
with corn, etc, and by the time they
got their strength again the winter is
nearly over, and you may hear them
complain that their hens don't lay. /
am not surprised if they do not lay
with such treatment. Now, ! will give
my mode Of feeding during the moult-
ing time; In the morning 1 mix sour
Glick milk with bran sometimes
put little salt or pepper in it; at noon
/ feed little rye, oats or golden mille'
seed; in the evening, wheat. | give
them fresh water in the morning and
noon. ! nun always very careful TO
keep my troughs clean. Some time
ago a man said to me, Arc your chick
ems dying2' / said no. He smd TINT
lac lost more than fifty young and old,
all alike. / asked him about his poul-
try-house. He said that he kept it
clean aud well ventilated, whitewashed.
etc. ! asked about the water. He said
he gave them writer as often as the
trough would get empty l went to
look at his trough, and / found it
standing in the MONDAY sun, and the
whole was coated with "A green slime,
which is juat deadly poison to fowls
| thinks.if Il man had to drink such
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-03-18

A citizen Of Buffalo, who had boen
reproached with living in the windiest
city in the lund, wrote, some years
since, to General Myers for the Stats
ties on the subject. II. reply, he re-
oeiyed a table which h. }sas just pub
lished in the BufTllt fSottt 'er, showing
The quantity of 10 sp3h,ausod IN
miles, which passed tf.s.esV6 principal
cities of the United 3 ~ during the
year ending November ", 1874. The
following is the table:
Names 90 cities Miles Nam OF cItis-. Miles
Augusta. Ga ,....i. COS iudlaaapalH, INT l4i
baltimore. Md,.a,.53 Dos llulsFtllc, ~. .... ,ad
bnaipu, " 49,, It'd. 1854 Nf aulfo WIS 90 a.
buffalo, n. T.. ...so. 80 Montgomery. Ala. "a
Nhaflniions ,... hi lsiI Naahtile, tvuu.., .a lt
Chicago ~. ..,.,.. iQfil Ntw Orleans Ia tluiU
neireit Mich ,..... on Or sew ferk. n, ,..s2tsi
nuluih Miuns.,..Gi sos Nor OK, Va. iil
ksstp1r, Me .., ,,.,fl 500 san rancsco Cal, atsu
Erie "a .,,,,...,.... tirs saianuah. ua... tinf
galveston. lHHs,., rl,ill So Do b, Mo-. Isl $50
fhiladglpha. over 20 90 wellington ~ ~ nfuiu
Norr HE ntonrl Cos Philadelphia Naa iucoai.
plrio hut 70 showed 80 .q miles i1r Ices ihaH
glrfr uluuihf
Milwaukee has the doubtful honor of
being tho winliest city ia the land.
The Evening critic., 1882-04-13
WEST WASHINGTON.

About q 80 yesterday evening two Of our rc-
spccted citizens, Mr.. Thomas Adams, rlvaling
IN statue Golah Of Gath, and Mr.. Theodore
Warner, the top Of whose head almost reached
the waist-hand Of his opponent, got Into an
alteration on Thirty.sccond street. near Grace
avenue. which at one time threatened TO lead
10 oceans Of gore, but tho tragic ending was
happily interfered with by the timely appear
nnce I'm tho distance OF n " choeser, which
timely appearance had the effect Of scattering
not only the combatants, but also "the lad.
dies" who were cruelty enjoying tho mill, and
one OF whom, In his desire to see fair play,
had kindly volunteered the use OF a sheet of
saper for the shorter man to stand on. 1nu-
nations were thrown out that the affair might
assume another phase in which the disparity
Of physique would be equallzod, but 1t Is
hoped by their friends that I'm their cooler mo-
ncnts such deadly ideas may vanish.
The wedding OF Miss Matte A. Beall and W.
S. jackson camc on last night, the programme
as given in yesterday evenings CRITIC being
fully carried out. The fair bride looked beauti.
full In her costume Of garnet silk, trimmed
with flowers. After short time spent at the
residence OF the brides grandfather, Major
George Hill, the happy couple left for VIII
mington, Del, on their bridal tour.
The regular meeting of Hermione Lodge No
12, X. OF p, last night, was very fully at
tended. Several reinstatements were made
and number OF applications for admission
TO the order were handed in. Tho arrange
mcnts for the complimentary entertainer
to be given by the Lodge at Curtis Hall to.
morrow (Friday) night were fully completed.
Thomas Cox, esq, Water Registrao, is still
quite Ill at his home on N street, to which he
has been confined for about month.
The many friends of Mrs. Haney, wife OF
Sergeant Haney. and Oldest daughter of Mr..
J. W. Wetzell, Will regret TO hear that she is
very i'll with heart disease.
Mrs. Cross aged 80, living on Thlrty-third
street, nerr the canal was sent to the hospital
Ill with consumption, this morning, on ccr-
tiicate of Dr.. Suter.
At acalled meeting OF the Dashaway Reform,
Club, held last night, It was determined to
hold n monster public temperance meeting at
Forrest Hall, on Monday evening next, at Z sc
o'clock, at which the most eloquent temper
ance orators obtainable, incluning Mr.. Luther
Benson, of Indiana, Will speok. As this clut
never does things by halves, an interesting
lime can be looked for.
Tho election of officers of the West Washing
ton NJ. E. Church Sunday-school took place
last night and resulted as follows: Supcrin
tendcnt, II. Divine; secretary, John e. Hard
ing; treasurer, j. johnson; librarian, II
The Evening critic., 1882-04-13
THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.
Effect CT the Late Appointments
The President Turning the Service
Inside down.

The Washington correspondent of tho Phil
adelphia Press telegraphs his paper that
"There is not q little uneaslness felt by per-
sons in the diplomatic and consular service as
to the fate that is in store for them under tho
new Administration" He explains the eff
feet of the nominations made yesterday as
follows: ''AIr. Nancy has been Minister to
the United States Of Colombia, and his trans
fer to BOLIVIA reduces his salary $4,000 per
annum. Mr.. Scraggs has been in the dtplo-
matte and consular service for many years.
He was Minister to Colombia many years ago,
and has been Consul at Panama. He now goes
back TO Bogota.
"The nomination Of General Andrews to be
Consul General at Rio Is an excellent appoint
ment. He was Minister to Sweden during
General Grants Administration, and Hayes
dropped him to make place for John l..
Stevens. General Andrews is q very accom-
plished man and VIII make n good officer
"AIr. Gallagher, of Philadelphia, who was
nominated to be Consul General at Rio several
weeks ago, much to the disgust of Congress
man Ward, in whose district General Adamson
formerly resided, will probably get q small
place in the service before long. His nomina-
tion was withdrawn by the President. Mr..
Adamson is removed to Panama, losing by the
change $4,000 in salary, besides the fees that
render Rio such an attractive port. Canisius
is at present Consul at Geestemundc, but that
place having been made commercial agency
under Bremen, Canisius goes to the Samoan
Islands. Bullock was formerly clerk of the
Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections
and protege OF ex-senator Morton, OF Indi
ana. From Cologne to Annaburg is a drop.
"Spackman is transferred from Munich tc
Cologne TO make place, 1t is said, for pro
tege of Judge Kelly.
''Mr. Swords, who was nominated to be Con
sui at Cadiz some time ago, says he will re
fuse to accent the Consulate at Trinidad. HI,
name was withdrawn for the Cadiz Consulate
because Senator Anthony demanded that his
friend Opperheim, now in that Office, should
be retained; Swords had the yellow feve
while Consul at Sagua La Gande, and he say
he don't care to die in Trinidad"
The Evening critic., 1882-04-13
THE EVENING CRITIC.
LACoNIC LOCALS.
sTABITsHED AUGUST tses


WIN. II. WILLIAMS, q fish huckster, was
fined by Judge Smell to-day for yelling on the
street, ana noted an appeal TO the Grand Jury.
A FIERCE stone battle RACED on the Ave.
nuc opposite the Pension Onice last evening,
between about twonty boys and men, and did
not come 10 an end until passerby had been
struck I'm the face with stone. No arrests
were made.
KATE MEREDITH appeared in the Police
Court to-day against Charles Langs .on,
colored boy, whom she charged with assault
ing her. Langston also charged Mrs. Mere
dith with assaulting him, and Judge Smell
fned Mrs. Meredith 81 and dismissed the
case against Langston.
AMONG the building permits granted to-
day were TO ]. F. Russell, ono brick stable, to
cost 81 800; +. W. Howard, store, on street,
near Tenth, to cost $4,000; Isaac ID. Jones, To
repair house, $40 Fourteenth street, $1,000;
l.. M. Lown, to build three brick dwellings, on
Thirty. second street, near p, $4,000; Ryland
Chapel, to build brick addition, 81 800.
LIZZIE SMITH, colored woman, was
sentenced In the Police Court to-day to five
days in Jail for stealing a childs chair from
In front OF the store of Moses Solomons, on
Seventh street. Mrs. Smith had an infant at
her breast, and when she was sentenced burst
into tears and said she had two other children,
one OF whom was only four months old, locked
up in her house.
The firm of Jordan & Jordan, colored
undertakers were charged in the Police Court
to-day with violating the health regulations
by burying a body in n cemetery without q
permit. The evidence was that permit had
been taken out TO bury Fanny Scott, colored
girl eight years of age, who had died OF cere
bro spinal fever, in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery,
and that the body had been Inferred in the
Harmonic Cemetery. The defense was that O
mistake had been made, and Judge Smell i'm
posed fine Of S25, but the execution of the
sentence was suspended.
The Evening critic., 1882-04-13
SOCIETY.
what is Going ON in the social


Gen. George Febiger. 4. $. A., who loft for his
new station some weeks since, has written 60
his family to Join him. Mrs. and Miss Foot.
ger will leave In n few days for the West ana
after visiting two three friends en- route,
will reach san Francisco about the middle Of
May.
Mrs Craig wadsworth, OF New York, who
has been such n brilliant feature in society
this winter, is spending few weeks in
Florida. tThe thoughts harmonize well-Mrs.
Wadsworth, jasmine and Florida roses) Sh o
VIII return TO Washington for the month OF
May and then go North for the summer.
II may be Of interest TO the strangers In the
city to know that the paint and glass shop, on
streets, was formerly the stable of Thomas
Jefferson, and is tho only trace loft of the
whereabouts OF that great mans dwelling
house. It's identity was quantity established
by n very old lady, who said:
eyes, my dear, | know IL was therc, for my
father has told me that while they sat at meat
flick their legs constantly with their handker-
Chiefs for tho horseiies did sorely sting their
calves through their silk stockings
Justice Dlatchford has completed his ar
rangements for making his home among us.
He did not buy and build, as he at first tn 'ught
of doing, but bought what was already b tilt
General Humphreys handsome house on Con-
necticut avenue.
Mrs. Harrison has Issued cards announcing
the marriage OF her daughter. Miss Bessie, to
place on the 25th instant, which falls on Tues
day. and as that is the day that brings wealth,
accor ding to the old superstition, let us hope
IL Will do so TO those two who are so rich al
ready In everything that makes life worth
living-youth, health, hopc and love.
Admiral Sands, U. s. N, whose long prostra-
tion has made his friends so uneasy this
spring, is convalescing slowly, and Will soon
be able to leave town, change his physi-
clans considers advisable.
MrlJefferson-I always feel tempted to call
him Nr. Acres or Rip Van Winkte-is an artist
OF much taste and merit, and is, moreover,
one of the most successful planters In Louis
lana. His orange groves are famous, and his
clever expedient of grating hardy trees on
his tropical growers a protection against
frost has met with favor and success, and in
some instances has improved the flavor OF the
fruit.
Every one who has been so fortunate as to be
guest of Mrs. Stockham at her homo on X
street, Will be glad to hear she is going to
| have house at Atlantic City this summer,
| where she is already preparing all sorts OF
amueements and comforts for her friends
| croquet, hammocks, private lighthouses
lawn tennis and archery.
Tho engagement of Miss Won Schaumburgh
| to an English army officer Of rank and posi-
| ton, announced by us some weeks ago, was
| brought to a happy conclusion day or two
| since in Paris. A telegram, consisting Of the
| single word "married," was sent to her rela
tives in Philadelphia, and they in turn SEN
| word to her friends here.
Mrs. Nathan s. Lincoln has gone to New
| York to spend two or three weeks with friend,
| and relatives.
The Evening critic., 1882-04-13
A Large Line Of Wall Papers
at Veerhofr's, DIG Seventh street.
Labor Notes.

The carpenters of Philadelphia will strike
for SO per day on May 1.
The carpenters employed on the Kelly
building, corner OF Beekman and Nassau
streets, New York, are stlll holding out for an
increase OF wages.
The bituminous miners in the Clearfeld,
Pa, region, numbering 5000, have made
demand for an advance OF fifteen cents per
day on ana after Saturday next.
The engineers of the Anchor, Union,
Western Transportation, Commercial and
Lehigh Valley lines OF steamers In Chicago
have had their wages reduced. The Anchor
men quit work and others Will follow.
Three thousand immigrants arrived at
Castle Garden Tuesday. The president OF the
labor bureau is quoted as saying ''Just now
there is a very urgent demand for all sorts I
labor, skilled and unskilled. We are sending
men to hire out to farmers all over the
also from cigarmakeIs, carpenters, cabinet
makers, blacksmiths and other mechanics.
Since Monday morning nearly pne thousand
persons have obtained employment through
the bureau, most OF them being Germans,
Irish and English, Tuesday morning We sent
on lot Of farm hands TO Cleveland, Ohio,
whero they will get S22 per month. Farm
help IN New Jersey receive So TO SIG per
month. Massachusetts is asking for black
smiths, locksmiths, &c. Women are In de-
mand also. Girls need not leave New York
city, as plenty Of situations are ready waiting
for them at from $40 10 $11 a month"; Ger
mans, Irish, English and French have the
preference. Very few Italian women find ON,
ployment here as servants" The agent Of the
lierman line thinks one million Immigrants
will arrive tins year.