The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-05-21
BRIEF MENTION.

senator DullcI, OF OOutn CAIOllds WAS a
major general in the Confederate army before
he was IS years old.
Governor Foster, according TO his son Aim
law and private secretary, will decline TO take
any active part in the approaching campaign
in Ohio.
Truck farming is making rapid strides in
Georgia II is estimated that the melon crop
this year will reach upwards OF 7, 500, 900 mel
ons, and sell for ST., 10000
When Mrs. Astor, wife of the American
Minister, was presented to the Queen of Italy,
it is said that her majesty was so surprised
with her beauty that she remained speech
less with admiration for several minutes"
In July next an Educational Congress will
meet in Rio laneiro, under a call from the
Brazilian Government. The Government of
the United States has been requested to fur
nish the best specimens Of work done in the
public schools Of this country
Dr. O'Reilly, chairman of the Executive
Council of the various Irish National Leages,
this city, telegraphed to the Freeman's Jour
nal, Dublin tonight as follows: Catholics
here generally condemn the papal circular as
an unjusthable interference on the part OF
Rome with Irish politics.
The Lisbon press thunders at the doings Of
England and France on the coast Of Africa at
points where Portugal conceives her ancient
rights invaded. Spaniards are sympathetic,
but nobody else seems to care, nd the chances
are that France and England will do as
they please.
The largest cable ever made on the Pacific
coast was finished at the California Wire
Works on Sunday. 1t is IS 600 feet in
length, and weighs 70 tons. Rolled on shaft
it makes bundle about 20 feet in diameter
and 10 in depth. 1t is made of steel wire, and
cost $40, 900. The cable is for the California
Street railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone had remarkably
repr, sentative dinner party lately. Itinclud-
ed the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke Of West
minister, Lords Harrington, Shaftesbury,
Rosebery, and Aberdeen, the Bishop of Ely,
the Dean of St. Paul's and the President Of
the Royal society.
Great preparations are being made among
the London newspapers for reporting the cUro
nation of the Gar, now near at hand. Mr..
George Augustus Sala starts on Monday for
Moscow, with three assistants and orders to
telegraph 1000 words daily to the Telegraph.
The Times will also send an efficient staff of
correspondents.
HAYrI, May ia great battle took place
on April II. Burzalene slaughtered the Gov
eminent troops until they were forced to send
flag of true, asking suspension of hotilihes
to bury the dead. Two Government vessels
have come in shore to render assistance, but
| Burzalene covered them with his guns and
| sunk them.
ST. PETERSBURG, May IS--The Gar on
| learning the confession of the officer of the
guards decided to postpone his coronation,
but was unable 10 do so. A number of ofl-
GERS have been arrested. The police are in.
formed OF plot to frighten the horse Of the
Car at favorable opportunity at the corona
ton, and in the confusion TO kill the En-
peror.
In the year IS4o Adam Mcdowell, a slave,
married Maria Walker, another slave. The
marriage was solemnized by duly ordained
Christian minister and with the cohsest OF
both masters. Mcdowell subsequently es-
capped to Canada, but his wife was recaptured
in an attempt to break from bondage Her
husband married again in Canada, and going
to Cleveland, amassed considerable wealth,
which he bequeathed to his children by the
Canadian wife. Mary, the slave wife. brought
suit, claiming that the Canadian marriage was
illegal. The courts now decide in favor o.
the second wife.
Considering the prices which foolish people
are willing to pay for ridiculous souvenirs,
probably the most valuable wheelbarrow il
existence is the one which the pedestrian Pot
ter, lately deceased, trundled from Albany tc
San Francisco and back. Potter himself i.
said to have declined $1,000 for the relic
shortly before his death. 1t has been sent tc
his hacker, James Martin, of Martinsville
Intrinsically the wheelbarow is worth IL
weight in rotton wood and scrap iron, anc
nothing more, for a stout rope is necessary I,
. hold together what is left oft,