The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-20
TELEGRAMs CONDENSED.

TELEGRAMS CONDENSED.
THE State Senate has fixed the scholastic age
at from eight to lG years.
GOVERNOR HUBBARD has recovered from
the illness with which he was recently afllic-
ted.
Two Cinnamon had prize fight at Philadel-
phia Saturday. One of them was Knocked out
of time in the llth round.
A CONCURRENT resolution ratifving the lease
of the State penitentiaries has been favorably
reported on in the Senate.
A MAJORITY and minority report have been
made by Texas Senate committee on the bill
to establish normal schools.
LEGISLATOR WURZBACH has introduced Il
bill in the State Legislature to prevent the
adulteration of food and drugs,
Patricio Charles has been sentenced at La
redo to 80 years in the pententiary for the
murder of a man named Myers.
ANOTHER of the Phoenix Park assassins has
turned informer. All the prisoners have been
remanded for formal committal.
THE Secretary of the British embassy at Tc-
heran and q native escort were attacked and
IL of the escort killed and nine wounded.
In ENGLAND the Land League is under sus-
picion of maintaining secret relations with the
conspiracy to murder Burke and Cavendish.
DAVIS has submitted a resolution to annul
the contract for the State capitol. 1t is believed
to be ''the entering wedge to division of the
State"
ENGLAND, France and Mexico manifest inter
est in the scheme fora Worlds Industrial and
Cotton Exposition, and want it held in the
South.
THE State Senate committee on Constitu-
tOnal Amendments has unfavOrably cOnSid-
cred a proposition to abolish secret sessions of
the Senate.
AN EFFORT is being made to induce the Leg
islature to authorize cities, towns and school
districts to levy an adValOrem tax for school
purposes.
STATE SENATOR FARRAR has submitted to his
colleagues a resolution to provide for the crea-
ton of Railroad Commissioners, with power to
regulate railways and correct abuses.
A WHITE MAN named Nat Lee was whipped
by six masked men at Waco for cOhabiting
with colored woman. He ran away and has
not been seen in the neighborhood since.
THE English Government has approved the
calling out of the Irish militia this year. Ii has
not been called ont for several years past,
owing to the disturbed state of Ireland.
FOUR children were burned to a crisp before
the eyes of their mother, Mrs. Michael McDOn-
aid, in Bracket, and the house was destroyed.
The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp.
CoNGREssMAE ANDERSON has prepared a bill
providing that after the first OF July next, the
duties on articles imported shall be reduced
Is per cent from the rate now established by
law.
THn State Senate has adopted resolution
looking to an amendment of the constitution
fixing State taxes at 81 cents and county taxes
at %, except for improvements and debts
already incurred.
IT is stated that Frank Byrne, the man who,
according to Carey'S testimony in Dublin, Sat
urday, sent arms from London for the murder
of officials, has been home rule organizer in
London for nine years.
DAVE KEMP, convicted and sentenced to 20
years in the penitentiary for a murder at
gainesville and Imprisoned at Dallas pending
the hearing ofan appeal, sawed one of the bars
of the Dallas Jail in two but failed to escape.
RAILROAD companies are organizing pow
erful lobby at Austin. Senator Randolph has
presented petition for a law fixing railway
passenger rates at cents, and asking that a
law be passed reducing freight rates, and to
prevent determinations i'll the same.
LEvEE has broken on the Louisiana side
near Vicksburg, and many plantations are
and an extensive plan of relief is being exc
cuted among the persons who suffered by its
flooding.
GARRET S. BOYCE, Edward b. Shaw and John
B. Beach, defaulting officers of the defunct
City Bank, of Jersey City, New Jersey, have
pleaded guilty and been sentenced to hard la
Dor i'm the State prison, BOyce for 10 years,
Shaw for six and Beach for four.
BY AN act of the Legislature of 1S4S, the city
of Laredo was Incorporated, with limits one
mile square The Legislature of 1880 amended
the act so as to embrace the original grant to
the city of one league, providing that only free
shall be entitled to vote for city officers. 1t is
a curious fact that the amendment was nn-
known TO the Laredo city government until a
CODY was received by the Mayor, on last Satur-
day, from the Secretary of State. The effect of
tho immediate enforcement of the act will be
to expdnd the territory, but contract the cti-
2enShp of Laredo.
4 MORAL comes from an Omaha divorce
court with the sequel to a street Irritation. A
prepoSsessing girl, OF Detroit, Michigan, aged
IL, flirted on the street with gpod-lOOking
young fellow named William Savage. They
became acquainted and, on June :, 1876, they
were secretly married. She bore her romantic
secret for three days and then learned that he
had Just been arrested as burglar and that
his long telonious record appeared in the
morning papers, He lay in the house of cor
rectiOn until September, and was then sent to
Jackson on a three years sentence. Her
beauty and rich clothing created sensation in
court yesterday, and the grant for a divorce
caused the unmarried men to regard her with
interest.