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by stage from san Luis Potos
TO QucrctarO....... .......... 200 10 60
ny rail from Queretaro TO Mex
ice. ,.......t.... .......s+... lbU ~
Total' '''''....s.......''..'s. Illus Shz ~
On the stage line from Queretaro TO Mon
terey IS pounds Of baggage are allowed. On
an excess Of IS pounds 30 cents pound is
charged. Three dollars day can he allowed
for personal expenses. This will cover meals
and lodging only. There are at the present
time seven days Of staging and two days Of
railroadng between Mexico and San Antonio,
Texas, making in all nine days ride. There
was a stage running between Lagos and San
Luis Potosi that made the time much less, but
owing to the heavy rains it has been temper
arily taken OFF.
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PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY AT
glO EAST COMMERCE STREET.
PROPRIETORs.

~ ELIvERED by carriers throughout the city
II at 10 Cents Per Week, payable to our
agent. Single copies for sale by newsboys at
Cents.
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THE Water Works company could immor-
talile itself If it would erect public drinking
fountain on Alamo plaza, and the LIGHT
makes the suggestion without any charge
whatever.
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THE Eagle Pass Maverick wants a United
States building erected in that place. suitable
for custom house, postofice and Unit ed
States Commissioner court, and with faith
that is simply childlke, trusts that Represen-
'ative ochiltree will not forget the promises
he made on the subject at the last election
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HelOteS Rancho.
STANDARD STATIONS.

MAMBRINO HOWARD, (trotterl see No.
ID. j.. Trcacys catalogue, Lexington, KY. He
Is FLOODED bay, 10 hands high, weighs 100
pounds. Service, 1926.
KNIGHT OF ST. LOUIS (thoroughbred),
sired ~ Glendower, dam by Epsilon, see Bruces
Amt lcan Stud Book, volume y, page 352. He
Is dark chestnut sorrel Service, s25.
DICK (hentucky jack, 10 hands high, weighs
800 pounds win cover mares or ienneta
Service, SIS.
short-horn Thoroughbred cattle, Red Bulls,
~ twenty-eghlh London Duke, Lexington,
Ky. Services, $40.
spring season, February l. Terms cash. Ser
Vices paid when mares taken away, and If not
with toal, have the privilege to return the next
season free of charge. Stock delivered at AL
fred heaves', Main Plaza, will be taken and
brought back without cost.
800, n. GUILBEAU,
iEoN HeIotes. Tex.
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Entered at postofiice at San Antonio, Texas,
4 gnpOud-Class matter.
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THAT old-tme patriot, Diogenes, who went
around at midday, with lighted lamp, look
ing for an honestman, seems to have wandered
into the Henrietta Shield office, judging
from the following item: "What we want to
find is some probable Presidential candidate
who will speak out on the tariff question, and
have no ifs in his opinions thereon"
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Miscellaneous.
lltePRatiOnaIlGPeat Northern
RAILWAY.
Time Gard, In Effect July ~.
PULLMAN HOTEL CAR

through to ~. Louis without change. Trail
leaving San Antonio at l2:l5 y. IN. has Pullman
Palace Sleeping car to Texarkana, where
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kaAnoacs;e and, II I remember, both Crawfurd
CJournA Of IN Embassy to Aya1 and Col.
fule Mission to the Court Of Aya'0 sneak Of O
hairy family resident for two or three genera
lions ct the Burmese capital. This family IL re-
ported to have come originally from the inte-
nor OF the Lao country, and in the same region
we are now told that little Krao and her parents
also hairy people. were found last year By the
wei-known Eastern explorer, Mr.. Carl Book.
nave died OF cholera, while the mother was de-
tained at Bangkok by the Siamese government.
so that krao alone could be brought to Eng
iand But before his death photograph of the
iatner was taken by Mr.. Book, who describes
MIN as completely covered with q thick hairy
coat, exactly like that OF the anthropoid apes
On MS face not only had he heavy, bushy beard
anu wniSkers, similar In every respect TO the
marry family at the court OF the King Of Burmah,
VINO also came from the same region as that in
which kraO and her father were found, but
The long arm, aud the rounded stomach also
proclaimed his close alliance to the monkey
form, while his power Of speech and his intelli-
gence were so far developed that before his
death he was able to utter o few words In Ma
lay"
Assuming the accuracy of these statements,
and OF this description, little krao, of course,
at once acquires exceptional scientific import
ance. She would at all events be q living proof
Of the presence of hairy race In further India.
q region at present mainly occupied by almost
hairless Mongoloid peoples. From these races
the large straight eyes would also detach the
KraO type. and point to q possible connection
with the hairy slaughtered AinO tribes still
surviving In Yesso and Sakhalin. and formerly
widely dinused over Japan and the opposite
mainland.
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From the Detroit Free Press.
THE HEN AND THE FARMER
A Hen having laid an Egg set up such q
Cackle that presently the whole Barn-yard was
In Confusion. and the farmer came running out
to see what was going on.
"What is it?' he demanded, as the Hen
cackled louder than ever.
''Why, l have laid an Egg!"
San egg9 Why, a single Egg isn't worth but
two cents at the present market price,"
Yes, know; but ii / didn't do two shilings'
worth Of cackling over every two cents worth
OF egg the world would soon forget me-"
MORAL.
Send a bundle of old clothes to an Orphan
Asylum and then interview reporter
THE OLD MAN WITH THE ACCORDION.
Peasant having saved up a sum of Money
by hard work and peeling his Potatoes close.
went to the nearest Village and Invested in an
ACCORDION. On his way home be began playing
the air Ut My Grandfather's Clock, but scarcely
had the echoes reached the Forest when out
came Chopper. who cried out
"Man! Man! for Heavens sake hang M on
that. You will kill US all with your Racket"
Cant help that, replied the Peasant as he
pulled away harder than ever. eff what tickles
me all over Is Death to you that is not my look
out; viii now give you The Empty Cradle,
II our neighb0r doesn't want our smoke let
him move away.
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FIRES IN MARYLAND.-The hotel at Port To-
bacco, Charles county, Md. known as the old
'Reeder House," or the "Carrollton," and occu-
pied by Mr.. David Smoot, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday. Only part of the furniture was
saved. and some of the boardeiA lost all their
clothing A heavy northwest gale was blowing
adjoining buildings, and the courthouse and
whole village We're threatened. There was no
insurance. The residence of Mr.. George Rich
mond, near Pope's creek, was also destroyed by
fire last week.
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Krao, the ..H human NIonkey.v


A. II. Keane, in Nature.
Through the courtesy of Mr.. Farini, I have
had private interview with this curious little
waif, which he is now exhibiting at the Royal
Aquarium, Westminster, and for which he
claims the distinction of being the long-sought-
for "missing link" between man and the anthro.
poid apes Krao certainly presents some abnor-
NAL peculiarities, but they are scarcely of suf-
hciently pronounced type to justify the claim
She Is, in fact, a distinctly human child, appa-
rently about seven years old, endowed with an
average share of intelligence, and possessing
the faculty of articulate speech. Since her ar
Fl al about ten weeks ago in London, she has
acquired several English words, which she uses
intelligently, and not merely parrot fashion, as
has been stated. Thus, on my suddenly produc-
ing my watch at the interview, she was at
tracted by the glitter, and cried out cock cock.
that is, clock, clock! This showed considerable
powers of generalization. accompanied BY q
somewhat detective articulation. and it appears
that her phonetic system does not get embrace
the liquids and r. But in this and other re-
spects her education is progressing favorably,
civilized ways that the mere threat to be sent
back to her own people is always suffcient to
suppress any symptoms Of unruly conduct.
Physically, KraO presents several peculiar
features The head and low forehead are COW
cred down to the bushy eyebrows with the deem.
black, lank, and lusterless hair characteristic Of
the MOngoloid races. The whole body is also
Overgr0wn with q far less dense coating Of soft.
black hair about quarter of an inch long, but
nowhere close enough to conceal the color Of
the skin which may be described as Of dark
oliye-brown shade. The nose is extremely short
and low, with excessively broad nostrils merg-
Ing in the full. pouched cheeks, into which she
appears to have the habit Of stuffing her food,
monkey fashion. Like those of the anthrOpoids
her feet are also prehensile, and the hands SO
flexible that they bend quite back over the
wrists The thumb also doubles completely
back, and Of the four fingers, all the top joints
bend at pleasure Independently inward. Prog
nathism seems to be very slightly developed, and
the beautiful round, black eyes are very large
and perfectly horizontal. Hence the expression
Is on the whole far from unpleasing, and not
nearly 80 ape-like as that OF many Negritos. and
especially Of the Javanese "Ardi, figured by me
in Nature, vol. xxiii, p. 900. But It should be
mentioned that when In q pet, Krao's lips are
said to protrude 50 far as to give her ssquite q
chimpanZee look.
Apart from her history, one might feel dis
posed to regard this specimen merely as Q
sssp0rt" or lasus ndtsr0. possessed rather Of q
pathological than OF . strictly anthrop0logical
interest Certainly isolated cases Of hairy per-
sons, and even Of hairy families, are not nm
known to science. Several were figured In q
recent number Of the Berlin Zeitschrlr 1Jssr
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the vessel was hit twice, and each missile made
her rock from stem to stern. She was on IRE in
two places when the negro left her, aud not only
did he go overheard with plank to sustain him.
but he foated past the fort and was picked up
after he had drifted down among the blockaders
After the fourth or fifth discharge the practice
on board the Montauk was perfect. At this
fair range
SHE COULD PLANT SHELL WHEREVER DIRECTED,
and each one seemed to start ire In the hold.
When the flames had taken q fair hold the Fed
eral ceased firing and remained quiet, specta-
tor OF the destruction Of q craft over which
Uncle Sam had worried and grown thin for long
months. About O'Clock she blew. up with q
loud report, and up to 1880 portions of the
wreck were yet visible near the spot.
The Nashville had depended upon the fort to
drive the Montauk Off. and the fort had tried it's
best to do so. The Federal was under steady
fire from five or six guns for over an hour. but
not the slightest attention was paid to the fort.
Shot after shot crashed against the armOr of the
Montauk. but only to leave q slight dent and
drop into the river. The mission was to de-
stroy the privateer and even after that was &C
complished Commander WOrden remained at
anchor to watch the progress of the flames,
while the fort was dropping an iron missile on
his decks every thirty or forty seconds. One
may search the whole record of naval affairs
during the war and not find such another case
where pluck and luck were combined in 80
happy manner. 1t was only after the destruc-
ton of the Nashville that the confederates, who
had been sneering at her commander for not
pushing his way past the blockaders, realized
what would have happened had she tried the
experiment.
The ffteen-inch shell of the Montauk would
have penetrated the Nashville at 1900 yards,
though the firing would have been wild. At the
range she had 1t was almost rife practice One
shell went clean through both sides of the ship
and across the river before exploding and years
afterwards piece Of the shell weighing over
two pounds was dug from treeat point eight
feet above the ground.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars had been
spent on the Nashville, and the confederate GOV
eminent had built high hopes on her success
and yet bit of ill-luck, for which no one could
be held responsible, led to her destruction be-
fore her crew had ever beat to quarters or one
of her guns been stained by powder
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Speculate sn Margtas.

1.-THE desire for speceiation-to find a more diSed
and easier road 10 fortune than op patient labor-scewS
inherent in mansiad aud no field rcsenss such acsl-
tiles and destinations stocks and bonds or large cor
Tordtsons OFTEN fer dollars invested ia Tics, is tho
nucleus az a speedy and colossal Fortune"
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Suicide on the Eve oe MARRIAGE.

young farmer named Jesse Smith, residing
near Hagerstown, Md, while laboring under an
attack Of temporary insanity, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with razor He was to
have been married to Miss Dora Manning. the
daughter OF farmer, this evening He wrote q
note, leaving all his property to his mother. On
q scrap of paper he wrote that he could not bear
the weight Of care devolvng upon him. He is
the second member Of the family to commit
suicide
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From the New York Review.I
Special Opportunities for Speculation.

SRocAoA OPPOfsWmhtscs hOf speculation
Seeing that 20 many persons. business and profee-
donal men. farmers. capitalists and those who have
borne the burden and heat Of the day. and been re-
Enumerated for their labor prone to invest portion
OF their savings In speculative way It IL foolish to
decry. some persons do what is recognized every
where ~ perfectly legitimate occupation. ie, the
buying and selling Of stocks. which is really what
stock speculation amounts to- To place . stumbling
block in the way Of those-and there are thousands
throughout the countrywide prefer stock transactions
to any other method Of increasing their capital, 10
neither policy nor reason The smphhcation and ex.
PLANTATION Of such transaction that those enterngo on
them may work intsligsntiy. ia. on the contrary,
commendable proceeding.
Messrs. 8. Il. sPsAouE Co. have, at 40 Broadway.
New York. soommodious Office arranged in Exchange
style. with public room for customers provided with
buetina ETC.. where they carry on their business -
bankers and brokers' On Q system that win be new to
most Of those Interested in stock transactons They
have taken pains 10 render every movement in the mar.
let plain to their customer and by buying and selling
shares in small fractional lots by accepting low
margins. and by system Of accounting whereby any
transaction may be at any time closed they virtually
allow their customers to do their own business.
merely charging . small percentage for the ex-
ecution Of their orders on The market. From
ont Of town pstrons they receive orders by mail
O. Telegraph. transactins business In the same
manner with thsutmost promptitude on the most fav
or,ble tsRms ana keeping their clients informed Of tho
progress of fhar ventures. Being wsll known on the
svtrest On 'sChange" and IN busines circles. and
possesutng IN unsullisd reputation - honorable
bus,nsr house. they have built up large connection.
numbering among their patrons many of the bet in ~
glasses q society.
Those oeour friends who may venture into the stosk
MARKET cannot do % better than through concern who
makas point oe carrying an open business in fair
ssrasshtsorwatd nanns. M b. applying 10 Messn.
Gpeagus o.. q tAs sddrso sbove s1vsa .: 81 Mes
stsssk Nsw York thsy w1n obtain any infornsta0a
they may require u safsst and most advsntaN
sso0s mslAods q deslines N saosks. f4-A
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.coson1cA1 Am SAFE.
WEAVER, kENGLA & CO.'S
LAUNDRY SOAP

IS ECONOMICAL. BECAUSE 1T rs PURE; BEING
FREE FROM ALL ADULTERATTONs, SUCH Aa
MARBLE DUST. SOAPSTONE, PIPE CLAY SILL
CATE. TO-, WHICH ARE USED TO ADD WEIGHT
AND BULK. AND WHICH QUICKLY WEAR OUT
AND ROT THE CLOTHES.
IT Is SAFE. BECAUSE IT rs MANUFACTURER
FROM STRICTLY PURE MATERIALS. VIZ: STEAM
REFINED TALLOW PREPARED BIZ OURSELyKal
PALM AND C0C0ANUT OILS; WHILE on TEE
CONTRARY MANY OF THE SOAPS ON THE MAR
KET ARE NADEFRON 0REESE PROCURED IRON
THE CARCAS6R6 OF PUTRD DEAD ANIMAIA
THUS ENDAN0ERlN0 LIFE AND HEALTH
PUT Up IN BARS. AND EVERY BAR DRANpED
WITH DUB NAME
FOB SALE By 0RoCERs GENERALLY.
AND WHOLESALE At OFFIOR
al S7lA WATER STREET. GROR0RTOwN, DO.
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Isaac Quinn, colored youth OF CASTOR
county, N. c., II years old, IL 9 feet inches In
height, and still growing.
Inc Michigan greenback state committee, OF
Wnicn ". ID. Fuller is chairman, has called q
Thursday, March 8.
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BLOODY WORK IN LUMBER CANA Chicago
telegram says that at the East Tawas Mich
logging camp two nieR got into dispute over
trial as to whose team could haul the heaviest
load. After the trial the one whose team was VIC
tOrfous went into cabin and sat down. The de-
featsd one came behind him, and with one blow OF
An axe severed his head from his body. The head
rolled TO the floor, the eyes winked several times
&nd the mouth opened. An alarm was raised. The
members OF the camp took the murderer, placed
tog-chain around his neck and hung him, and
placed guard around the body to await the ar.
:1val or tie sheriff. Some men came from a neigh
DOT ng camD to take the corpse down. general
ught enSued, and seven men were killed
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"ONE Day" said this gentleman ''before
harvest, met fashionably dressed person with
Q large handful of ears of wheat. taken from my
fields 1 saiutcd him respectfully, and ex-
pressed my admiration of the beauty of the
wheat. Yes. said he. 1T is truly fine san pie,
and does the farmer great credit who grew it, /
acknowledged the compliment and asked him
nom which Of my fields he took it. After he had
pointed it out he assured me be always liked to
take good sample home. as it Interested the
ladies' Upon this. noticing with admiration the
style OF his coat. asked him to allow me to
look at the skirt He readily did 80, and I
quietly took out my pen-knife and cut large
piece from the tail. The gentleman bounced
and swOre, but told him always took samples
OF cloth as i found they greatly interested my
wife. ! added. that ne had no more right to
take my wheat than to take his coat. and that
wished the public to bear this truth i'm mind"
This was experience bought with a vengeance
Chambers Journal
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W!GGINs SCAREs THE FIsHERMEN's WIvEs-Wig-
gins prediction OF terrible storm from March 9th
10 lStn mas deferred number of Gloucester, Mass,
from making the next trip. which would bring
them them. on the banks at the tins of the storm. The
Is feared that idleness will become General anOnr
the Georges men, and the best time In the season
for good catch will be lost -
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Inc following ID list Of the most active stocks DEAN
In at the New York Stock Exchange Canada Southern:
Chicago 4 North Western; Chicago North Western
preferred; Chicago. Milwaukee st. Paul; Chicago.
Milwaukee St Paul preferred; Del. Lack West
ern; Del. Hudson; Denver Rio Grande: Hannibai
st. Jo Hannibal St 10 preferred: Illinois Central;
Indiana. D. 4 Western; Lake shore; Louisville Nash
VILE; Manhattan Elevated R.R.: Michigan Central;
No., Kansas Texas Missouri Pacific; Nashville. Chat
q st. Louis; New Jersey Central; Erie; N.Y. Ontario
4 Western; Northern Pacific: Northern Pacific pre-
ferred; OREGON Trans Continental Union Pacific;
Pacific Mail; Phila. Reading; Rock Island; St Paul
b Omaha; st. Paul Omaha preferred; Texas Pacific:
Wabash; Wabash preferred; Western Union telegraph;
NY. Central Hudson; Ohio Miss Central Pacific:
Chicago. B. Quincy.
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KILLED HER BABY AND HERsELP.-At Spring.
Held, MO-, Monday Mrs. lilly SchOudea, the young
wife OF Frank Sehoudea, cigar maker, during
her husbands absence from home, shot her
three-months-old baby through the head and then
shot herself dead. No cause for the act Is known.
PLY together, and were prosperous
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DIsCouRAGING TO FOOTPADs-In New York Mon.
day, the ruf1an who robbed Miss Isherwood OF her
purse ana n earrings few weeks ago on the stair
way leaoing rom the 9TH avenue car track in the
and nall years, and one OF the men who, at the
sane ,t,1eI sme' knocked down and robbed Brooklyn
period three years longer. Roth cninrits threw
themselves upon the mercy OF the court by plead
Ing guilty, put In such cases mercy is misplaced
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SrsPICIeNs OF FOUL PLAY.-Some days ago the
body Of Daniel Walker, q colored man was found
on the track OF the Richmond and FredericksburQ
railroad, near Richmond Barbara Walker he
VIE OF the deceased, and man named Lee, who
ID said to have been intimate with her, have been
arrested on usoicion OF numbering him, ana com
United to jail at Richmond.
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HON. PERRY H. SMITH "a DISTRACTED PERSON.
10 the matter OF the alleged insanity OF the Hon.
and millionaire, the Jury Wednesday AFTERNOON
DrOugnt.an verdict to the effect that he Is dis
tracted person. A motion for the appointment OF
days - w -N-~ '~ ~"
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IRON AND STEEL PRoDUCTIoN.-The secretary OF
the American Iron aud Steel Association reports
that returns have been received from all the mills
N the United States, which rolled iron and steel
railway bars IN 1882 The total production OF iron
and steel rails last year was f,6S3,794 net tons,
being railing on as compared with 1881 OF 1853 sos
tonS- NO rails were made during the year in
New Jersey, Virginia and Georgia, all Of which
states made rails In 1851
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A serenaded girl leaned too far ont Of her
window ,,n at Pot s Pa. to see who the
the party and their song on the wav.
Members Of the Methodist church at Shelton.
Vt, found fault with the Rev. Mr.. widely for
smoking black clay pipe. The wrangle caused
him to resign and accept charge elsewhere.
President Wntte says, a. to the co-education
of the sexes at Cornell, that in the Glasses men
outrank women in study, and that q fow VIII be
far ahead, but that women have better general
average.
The plaintiff in an Indiana breach Of promise
suit ID WIDOW OF "a and the defendant boy
of 18.
Canadian papers report the arrival Of new
bird in considerable numbers, which prey upon
the English sparrow.
Idaho is relatively stronger In Mormonism
than Is Utah. there being ten Mormon represen-
in the church, and fully dne-third Of the 65 ,OOo
inhabitants are adherents Of the Mormon faith
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/ IST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE
IL WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY q. 1883.

To obtain any Of these Letters the applicant must
this list.
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LADIES' LIST.

a not called for within one month they will be sent
to the Dead Letter Office.