The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-04
RAYS DELIGHT.

railway Will abolish all general agencies.
wM. II. VANDERBILT, the millionaire, will
leave New York for Mexico on the 9th inst
a DOLL may be nice for good little girl
Why not dolman for her big sister?
SINCE new years day considerable doubt has
been felt us to the biblical statement that il is
more blessed To give than to receive.
THE last road grabbed by Gould was the
Galveston, Houston and Henderson, II 50-mile
feeder To the International.
JESSE JAMES the Bandit King" is the title
OF Observation-Disclosures play recently put on
the boards Of Heucks opera-house in Cmcin-
natl.
A CALIFORNIA miner fell in love with a girl
at first sight. She was equally smtten with
him, and the entire courtShip was: my pet!"
You bet
SMOKE is considered by physicians to be
beneficial in towns where garbage is not prop
erly removed and the drainage systems are inn
perfect.
PEOPLE from three states witnessed North
Carolina hanging yesterday The circus season
has closed and folks must have some sort of
amusement.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the explorer, has disap
peared from Paris in n most mysterious man
ner. lie Is supposed to have returned to
Africa.
COLONEL MOsBY, of cavalry fame, and now
American consul at Hong Kong, will return to
Virginia next year and take the stump against
Senator Malone.
Mrs. LANGTRY's sister-in-law arrived in New
York to take Mrs. LabOuchere's place as chape-l
rome To the beauty. What will Freddie Geb-
hardt do now
HIGHWAY robberies are becoming so. fire.
quent on the streets of Chicago that citizens
are talking of suppressng them by means OF
private enterprise.
The diligent d ynamite manufacturer pursues
his occupation in switzerland and supplies the
genuine article to French anarchists at short
notice and reasonable rates.
GOvERNOR-EL PATTIso N of Pennsy lvania,
says he Will appoint no man to the Office OF
attorney general who is professionally con-
nected with any corporation.
In the French collieries electric motors are
quite successful and are meeting with general
favor. BY means of electricity trains are soon
To be run through ST. Gothard tunnel.
PEOPLE in these degenerate days are reck-
lessly regardless OF their health. A liver pad
manufacturer down East has suspended bust
ness for lack of patronage.
EASTERN newspapers believe that if Grant
should refuse the pension proposed To be Of
fered him he would be inyincible before TIM
next republican presidential convention.
CHRISTINE NILSSON, the sUngstress, writes 10
the Denver Tribune denying that she is an eX-
pert pokcr-player and that she accused mana
ager Abbey Of cheating her.
MARTHA STuBER is the name of an eleven
ycaT-Oid Sandbagger Of Chicago who thumped
little child, knocking IL senSeleSs, and then
robbed it. The Chiid's collar bone was broken.
THE question of federation is now agitating
the Australian colonies, and the Sidney News
thinks that Il union Of colonial interests on the
American plan Will probably be cOnsumnatad
in the near future.
IMAGINING that nothing he ate gave him sus-
tenance and, though he slept Soundly, that he
suffered from insomnia, DR.. +. b. Ayre, a
Nashua, \. ii. millionaire, committed suicide
by cutting his throat wit!i II razor
THERE is going TO DC a high old time i'm Hawii
when King kalakau puts on the new crown re-
Gently purchased for him by his chamberlain,
Colonel Judd. As an earnest of this, forty cases
of champagne have been forwarded from Bal
timore.
SISTER NJ. FRANCIS CLARE, THE NUN OF
KENMORE, has written 10 the Hon. PriZe-fighteT
John Kelly, of New York, denying that the
Irish are unwilling to work and pointing out
countries where crime Is greater than in
Ireland.
WESTERN cowboys are developing aesthetic
tastes in their choice OF Instruments OF murder
Two orders lately sent 10 the east by cowboys
from Wyoming call for reyUlvers pearl and sill
yer hited, inlaid with gold, and costing $500
each.
THAT section of New York's penal code
which is intended to prevent the accumulation
OF princely fortunes during single cold snap
was enforced last Friday for the first time, a
plumber being fined $50 for putting in defective
pipes
PRoMIsCuOUs kissing, says the Medical and
Surgical Reporter, has been infinitely more
productive of disease of various kinds than
the public ever dreamed of, and il is a practice
that should be discountenanced. The people
should cOntine their kissing propensities To
members of their own families, and even then
il is not always safe.
DIR. V. SABRAKIN ROSE, ex-physici to the
Sacred Heart Convent, in Yankton ID. II, whose
marriage with Sister May Paul Miss Nellie
kerns), created such sensation, is a Russian
eX-nihilist who came 10 America six years ago
after being exiled to Siberia. Sister Mary was
married by clergy man who knew her well but
failed to recognize her in the costume she had
assumed i'll place OF her robes.
In is not generally known that Charles IVES
ley, one of the founders of Methodism, might
have been an Irish landowner if he had chosen
to abandon the ministry. When boy ne was
adopted by an Irish gentleman of fortune and
for many years his educational expenses were
betrayed by this gentleman. When he decided
10 take his chances as the son of poor clergy
man the lrishman adopted Richard Colley Wes-
ley, grandfather of the Duke of Wellington by
whom the name Wellesley was taken TO escape
suspicion of relationship To the retormers.
Gen. Il. L. Butler, Jay Gould, w. II. Wander
blt, Senator Hoar. III. q. Clafiin, Gov Long
Lieutenant GUVernOr-elpct Oliver Ames John
fin were so poor that they had not a bible,
among the thousands OtValuable books i'm THEN.
libraries and 50 one was sent To each of them on
New Years day by Il. ID. Godfrey, Newton
vile, Mass, shoemaker who was the original
owner of the race-horse GOdfrey's PatcheI
by singular oversight Mr.. Godfrey ondtetl
the members OF Congress i'm his distribltion
but then some OF them would not recognize the
book if they received it.
ONE evening in Paris, after Pere Hyacintbr
had delivered an eloquent SerIuOu to "A multi
tude at NQtfe Dame, Mrs. Emily bitteriield
Tunes, arose, deeply agitated, and said INV
father, | am Il Protestant, want To be "A Catbo-