The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-17
TELEGRAMS CONDENSED.

of Dallas.
THE wife of Monroe Miller, of Austin, is dead
large funeral cortege followed the remains
to the grave.
AFTER quarreling about car fare Josef Perez,
car driver, dangerously slashed H. ID. Staub
at Galveston.
A BILL to prohibit the careless handling of
fire arms was engrossed by the lower branch of
the State Assembly.
The Speaker of the English Parliament de-
cares that the resolution of last session against
Bradlaugh is not valid this session.
THE property of the Mutual Union telegraph
company has been leased by the Western Union
for an indefinite term.
SEVERAL hundred carp, age three years.
weight from seven to Il pounds, are said 10 be
i'm the Austin fish pools.
STATE SENATOR GooCH has introduced bill
to permit cities to pay their bonded indebted
ness in less than 10 years
Mrs. Fl. NJ: VAILE,wife of one of the defend
ants in the Star route cases, committed suicide
at Independence, Missouri
S. ID. HOUSTON, Tax Collector of Lawrence
county, Alabama, was robbed by highwaymen
of $500 on lonely road yesterday near Mont
gomery.
The new Memphis Jockey club announces
that spring meeting will be held on April l6,
continuing six days. There will be $4,000 in
stakes and purses.
PALESTINE wants the Legislature to permit
it to tax itself not in excess of y per cent. an
| nually for the purpose of making permanent
local improvements.
SENATOR BROWN gave notice to his colleagues
at Washington yesterday that he would offer
an amendment reducing the tax on whisky and
brandy to 80 cents Il gallon.
A RESOLUTION passed the Texas House re-
questing Representatives at Washington to
protest against the removal of troops from the
frontier along the Rio Grande.
The Ohio rivers are falling. Suffering is still
great in the Hooded districts. At New Albany,
Ind, 5000 persons are homeless aud more than
Sl,OO0,OOO damage has been done.
A JOINT resolution is pending in the State
Assembly which provides that current wages
| shall not be subject to punishment except for
| necessaries and physicians services.
DURING the first fortnight of December last,
the island of Formosa was continually shaken
| by earthquakes, and there was great destruc-
ton of property and many lives lost.
GENERALS DIAZ and NaranjO, of Mexico City,
| are expected to pass through Laredo en- route
| to Monterey, to be present ut the christening
of the infant daughter of General Trevino.
AssEMBLYMAN ROBERTSON, of Williamson,
has submitted Il bill to make parties who bring
suit for unliquidated damages, pay the costs
when they do not recover sufficient amount
to give the court jurisdiction.
1T is reported that Santiago Sanchez ex-
Mayor OF New Laredo, has succeeded i'm secur-
ing the necessary concessions from the Mexican
Government to construct wagon and foot
bridge between the two Laredos.
The House Pensions committee favorably
reported bill TO pay $50 per month pension to
Mrs. Septimia Randolph Meikleham, the only
surviving grandchid of Thomas jefferson, the
writer of the Declaration of Independence.
LARGE quantities of hay have been shipped
over the Union Pacific for feeding the cattle
herds upon the Platte valley ranges and those
in Western Wyoming, where the grass is
showed under. Cattle are severely suffering.
BUSINESS failures for the last seven days
huber 24 against 275 last week, reduction of
II, distributed as follows: New England, 10;
Western States, 80; Southern, 81; Middle, 49,
Pacific States and territories ri "
Z; Canada, IL.
THERE was blood on the snow at the bottom
of a 30-fOOt rock cliff near Jackson, Ohio, Sun
day morning. Search revealed the body of the
Hon. Levi Dungun, who had become confused
in the storm on returning from the bedside of
| II sick child, and walked off the cliff.
As SOON as the weather is agreeable con-
struction force of the Texas and st. Louis Mar
row Gauge, now camping four miles west of
Dallas, will go to work TO complete the gap be-
tween Dallas and Mount Pleasant, u distance of
l23 miles, 20 of which have been graded.
To THE National Senate Committee on Ap-
preparations have been referred bill intro
duced by Skinner, apprOpriatIng S5OO,000 for
the relief of the sufferers from the floods i'm the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and one introduced
by Wheeler approprating 100000 for the same
purpose.
HOSPITALITY got shock in Louisville when
Willard Irwin refused doorstep accommodate
tions to L. NJ. Frazer. The latter objected, was
knocked down and retaliated by cutting
lrwin's throat fatally, Frazer is in jail and
becoming sober enough TO realize his unen-
viable situation.
A MAN named Smith, employed by the Dub
lin Board of Public Works, has been arrested
in connection with thescOnspiracy to murder
British Government officials. 1t is stated that
Smith kept the vigilance committee posted
when they were arranging "a plot to blow up
the castle with dynamite.
CAPTAIN GEORGE ADAM, Commodore of
Captain Eads' jetty fleet at South Pass, Louis
lana, and Harry Turner, Engineer of the fleet
are in Galveston for the purpose of purchasing
the steam lighter Estelle, TO be used as a dis
patch boat at Eads' ship railway across the
lsthmus of Tehuantepec.
CAPTAIN THOMAS LANG, recently a Laredo
Custom House Inspector, isa raVing maniac
Ii is reported in Laredo that he was drugged
deme-mOnde with the leaves of plant said to
grow in Western Texas, whose effects COM
pletely destroy the reason.
THE management of the Nebraska Asylum
for the Insane, near Lincoln, is being inyes-
tlgated. a StOneInaSOn saw one of the attoAQ-
ants kick and pound patient. An ey- steward
saw the superintendent choke woman and
heard him say to laundry attendant that
when the women refused to work sho: must
give them q shaking up.
WILLIAM H. COOPER became so affected by a
religious meeting held ia Salem Townshin
pennsylvania, recently, that no has since gone
out OF MS nina, ana the other day became so
violent that his friends resolved to remove him
to a iunatic asylum. On Thursday he became
50 frantic that he set fire to an outbuilding ON
his premises, destroyed all the household fur-
nlture at night, and drove his family from the
house; lie VIII be taken TO the DapyiIle In
sane Asylum, y"