The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-09
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

1T SHOWED in FL PasO on the 9TH.
FPTZHUGH LEE had Il good house in Dallas.
A TRIAL of % Socialists at Vienna began yes
terday.
In CALCUTTA heavy rain destroyed 2iO
houses.
MORE arrests have been made in Moscow,
Russia.
Texas.
THE StOckman's convention at Fort Worth
have adjourned.
MAJOR Downs, a prominent railroad man in
California, is dead.
a DISPATCH from Memphis gives encOur-
aging news of the flood.
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE is getting after Par
nell about league funds.
Two HUNDRED Irish girls have started from
Limerick for New Hampshire.
THE :" Black Hand" society are reported as
making poisoning threats i'm Spain.
a SUIT involving the title to the TOWNSHIP of
San Saba has been finally settled.
THREE men were killed at a fire i'm Nashville
on the night of the eth by a falling wall.
DORSEY and his partners are all writing cards
denOuncing the statements of witnesses.
THE German Lutheran church at LoganspOrt,
Indiana, was burned on the 9TH. Loss, Sf9, 900.
The Greenbackers of Michigan are i'm State
convention and will fuse with the Democrats.
CLARENCE HITE, a member of the James
Missouri.
EX-TREASURER POLK positively declines to-
give any testimony which would inculpate
anyone else.
THE Star route trial continues to disgust the
country. The defence are putting forward a
host OF witnesses.
TO-DAY Paris, France, will be scene of ex-
element in consequence of the SocalistIc
attempt to parade.
SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND people are reported
as on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, ON the
occasion OF the stevens memorial services.
A WEALTHY ex-Confederate General i'm New
York, whose name has been kept secret, was
swinded out of $3.50 by bancO men few days
ago.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYsEN, accompanied
by General Sherman and others escorted the
MallagasSy ENJOYS to the tomb of Washington
yesterday.
DAVID DAVIS is to be married at last to Miss
Annie Burr, Of FayetvilIe, n. e. 1t took
whole special car to take the eXpectant bride
groom to his lady love.
TRADES UNIONS of New York, Troy and
COhOes united in demonstration Tuesday
against contract labor in State prisons. TIN ee
thousand men paraded.
The charge against Byrne of completely i'm
Phoenix Park murder has been Withdrawn, but
another charge made OF completely i'm attempt
to murder Juror Field and Judge Lawrence.
TRAIN robbers boarded train in Arkansas
On the 9TH and killed the conductor and SHOT n
brakeman, but the engineer bOlted ahead with
the train and the robbers jumped OFF without
getting anything.
YESTERDAY the Texas Legislature did some
work and indicated that they would fix no GER
tain day for adjournment until certain legisla-
ton was perfected. At the rate they have been
going it will take several years to pass the bills
indicated.
ELEVEN colored women sit i'm a row on the
stage at the Douglass Institute, Baltimore.
They come from different parts OF the country
and are rivals for the honor of being consd-
cred Americas champion cOlOred beauty. Their
cleaning white teeth is the most noticeable
feature of their good looks.
THERE is a human ostrich at a hospital i'm
Cremona, Italy. After an attack of peurisy
he developed an abnormal appetite for peb-
bles, nails and bits of glass. This has steadily
increased and he now eats IL or 20 pebbles
daily. His faVOrite diet however, is glass balls
polished SO us to pass easily down his throat
These statements are vOuched for by DIR.
COZO and other eminent Italian physicians.
THE last bin which passed the Senate was Il
House bill to fix the terms of United States
courts for the Eastern and Northern districts
of Texas. The bill reached the House Just us
Speaker keiter began his remarks preliminary
tn declaring the House adjourned sine die.
The clerk, bill in hand, rushed up to the desk
and endeavOred to attract the Speakers atten-
ton, but without avail, ana the gaVel fell
without the coveted signature.