The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-09
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CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
ARCHBISHOP MCCABE is better, but st ill very
feeble.
then shut down again.
II. p. BUTTER, Chief Clerk of the Camden N.
j., water department, is short $1,000.
THE loss to stock men throughout the State,
by the cold snap, will not exceed per cent.
Spanish ministers have decided to treat as
free men the 10000 slaves who were not liber-
ated by their owners in Cuba in 1870.
The Montenegro Government announces a
rupture of the relations between Montenegro
and Turkey, because the latter failed to agree
10 cesSlon OF territory.
DAvrTT. Healy and Quinn, arrested in Dub
lin some time ago for making infiammatory
speeches. have been lodged in Kilmainham jail
for term OF six months.
CANDIDATES are numerous for the seat on the
United States District bench for the Eastern
District OF Texas, to be made vacant by the
retirement of Judge Amos Morrill,.
REPRESENTATIVE BELTzHOovER and num-
Der of anonymous writers have descended to
bitter attacks on the signal service system and
General W. b. Hazen, Chief of the Bureau.
A BANQUET in commemoration of his ed
birthday was given William Tecumseh Sher-
man, General of the army last night in Wash
ington. He will retire from the army in
another year.
PARNELL, in communication asking the at
tendancs of the Irish members of the House of
Commons at the opening of Parliament next
week, says events of great Importance to Ire
land will be discussed.
GENERAL GUILLERMo, eX-President of San
Domingo, and ii other exiles, have left st.
Thomas with the avOwed purpose of organizing
in jamaica formidable party to invade San
Domingo and Hayti.
A GERMAN teamster in st. Louis, Henry
DEGREES, cut his wife's throat, then his own.
Jealousy was the cause. Five little children,
one in bed with the dead, were found sleeping
when the tragedy was discovered.
During a review in Cuba volunteer soldier
shouted Long Live the King" when passing
the Captain General. He was arrested, then
released. Other men had pledged to take up
the cry, but their courage failed.
JUST as the Rev. Elisha Blackshear, of
brownsville, Georgia, pronounced James
White and Delilah Anderson man and wife
They were both affected with heart disease.
OBY OWEN, who embezzled S2OO,OOO while
defaulting teller of the Third National Bank
in st. Louis, yesterday pleaded guilty and said
he had become involved through grain and
cotton speculation. Sentence was deferred.
JULES FERRY has declined to form the French
cabinet, and President GreVy will summon
Brlsson for the purpose. The Chambers have
rejected report of committee stating that
there is no cause to feel alarmed or resort To
the expulsion of the princes.
AT DALLAS duel, which has been the topic
for the last day or two, between two gentlemen
intercession of friends. Last evening at the
Delmonico an imprOmptu, but highly enjoyable
banquet was given to celebrate the result.
The necessity is urged of an amendment
shall be forfeited to the United States if such
spirits shall be found to differ in proof from
the proof indicated by Ne marks and stamps
thereon, unless such differences shall be occa-
stoned by the lapse OF time.
THE Ohio river is rising almost its whole
length. Marietta, Ohio, North Portsmouth,
Newport, Kentucky, and Cattlettsburg, Ken
lucky, are flooded. Many houses are under
water and the damage is great. At Parkers-
burg, West Virginia, the kanawha river has
destroyed 100000 worth of milling material.
THE House Congressional Committee on
Patents authorized Vance to prepare bill to
amend the revised statutes applicable to patents
so as to provide that an American patent shall
run Is years from the time the invention was
patented in foreign county,, making all
TO any living patent, but to apply only to
patents hereafter granted.
CARLES A. BRoSIUs, of Germany, had the
misfortune to die recently and leave an estate
of 100000. He had no family and he left no
will, so the money is to be divided by the Ger
man courts among the relatives, most OF whom
reside i'll this country. Two of the heirs are in
st. Louis, another at Knightstown, Indiana,
be made rich, provided the lawyers do not get
the money.
BEFORE the National Senate Committee on
EducatlOn ana Labor yesterday Frank Foster,
Secretary of the Massachusetts Federation of
Trade and Labor Unions, stated that the condi-
ton of mill operatives in New England is sure
to produce an enfeebled race of men aud
women, as has been done in England. The
working people of Massachusetts are better of
than those of other New England States on
account of the enforcement of the l0-hour law
The hours of work in Massachusetts are 90 per
week, while in the weaving districts of England
they are but So.
RELATING to the tariff the National Senate
placed Jute butts on the free list and had a de-
bate on the ACCESSIBILITY of putting raw silk on
the silk schedule at 10 per cent. ad valorem but
took no conclusive action on the subject. The
House fixed the duty on steel railway bars and
bars made in part of STEEL weighing more than
% pounds to the yard, at SIS per ton, the duty.
on iron in bars or bundles, rolled or hammered
comprising flats, not less than one inch nor
more than two inches in diameter, and squares
not less than three-fourths of an inch, nor
more than two inches square, nine-tenths of
one cent per pound comprising flats of not
less than three-eighths of an inch nor more,than
SIX inches wide; on rounds not less than three
fourthS of an inch nor more that two inches
square, one-eighth and two-tenthS of one cent
per pound; rated at not less than 81 per cent ad
Yalorem all iron, except castings, in slabs,
blooms, hoops or other forms less finished than
iron bars, and more advanced than pig iron,
and put the duty on stoves at SIS tor
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