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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-31

sEEMAN's Electra Is said to surpass anything
ever seen on the American stage.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-31

For Christmas Cards

BY DIR. A. J. Smith, No. % Commerce stree
over Clavins drug store. ll-l-ti
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-31

Pure wines and liquors at Huermann &
BROS. ll-20-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-31

Fresh Oysters and Celery
Every day at Bells. 937 Houston street
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-31

Fine Mixed Candy
only 20 cents per pound at Bells.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-31

Late Styles OF Hats
Ror ale at Psncoast & Sons. 0-l-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-31

UHEEEH HHU NFHHOE WHIT
A very complete stock for sale by PancoaI
4 Son. g-20-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-31
Ladies Cloak Department

now open. A large line OF fall and winter
wraps. Ncwmarkets, walking jackets, cloa<s,
doltnana, uleters and Jerseys. Jerseys" "jer-
seya." for ladies', misses and children, at all
the popular prices.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
THE NEW POSTAL NOTE.

The new postal note authorized by the
last Congress will be issued October 1st
To newspapers it will be an especial con
venicnce, as it will do away with the
remittance of postage stamps when it is
desirable to send fractional parts of q
dollar by null. Stamps are drug In
many cases ard often have to be dispos-
ed Of at sacrifice. We give diagram
of the new note herewith. A person
living in Milwaukee, for instance, and
desiring to send any sum below SIS to any
one in Chicago, goes to the post-otfice
and deposits the same with fee of 3
cent?. The postmaster will then punch
two holes as indicated, to the right of the
order, showing the dimes or cents deposit.
ed and dollars if so much, two more holes
to the left through month and year,
He will then affix his stamp and sigma
ture, and hand over the note without
further trouble. For the three months
during which the note is good, it will be
O ready substitute for legal tender in the
towns both of the issuing and receiving
offices. To get the money, the note is
simply presented. The.postmaster will
have had duplicate mailed to him,
The provision of making 1t payable
within three months of the last day OF
the month of issue, will in instances
extend its legal tender value to four
months. if it be issued during the first
days OF any month. 1t affords no se
curlty to either party, but in that re-
spect is no worse than fractional cur.
rency or any other paper money. 1t is
principally designed as matter of con.
yenience, and as such fills gap in small
business transactions.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
coAsTING IN SUMMER.

An eccentric Boston genius fearing
that sufficient amount of winter snort
cannot begot from the regular season,
has perfected unique invention by
means Of which boys can have coasting
all tho year round. His device consists
OF an artificial hill, which may be set
up in parks, gardens, commons, or on
the ashore, the length being a mat.
ter OF choice or convenience, the eleva-
ton sufficient to give the sled the reaui.
site impetus for jolly slide. The run
way is furnished with grooves in which
the runners of the sled move. The in
ventor, who is u compositor, by the
way, makes the claim that there will be
almost perfect freedom from accidents
because OF the breaks, pulleys, endless
chains, and varied contriyances of the
patent slide. Now this may be all very
we'll, but it strikes us this is going il a
little strong in infringement on the nat
ural provision and Accomplishments of
seasons. Boston is becoming altogether
too speculative on common credulity.
But it cannot expect to gull the youth
OF that sacred city into the belief that
winter has invaded the furnace blaze of
summer because sled is made to whiz
down patent hill. 1t is an undue at
tempt to take advantage Of the kite and
loot. ball season, and could only have
rise ins mind that believes in the
mental procreance of beans.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
A Rich Chinaman.
loor. st. Louis elobe.Democrat.


l sat on the piazza at Ell Paso, Tex.
and saw approaching a repulsive-looking
Chinaman, whose face was disfgured by
a long, gastly scar. It was Sam Hing,
the richest Chinaman in America, who is
said to have salted down four delicious
millions. " Washee?" you ask. I" Not
muchee washee" Sam has too :" soft a
thing Rumor has it that all the China
men employed in constructing the Mex
lean and Texas railroads get their EN-
ployment through Sam Hing, and that
each Chinaman (about 30, ,O00) pays him
81 per month, besides q bonus for the
job OF work obtained through Sam. Sam,
IN fact, controls the labor market, and
Cinnamon who ego it alone" have an
odd way OF disappearing China, per-
hapss. The men whom Sam provides with
employment must also opurchase all their
clothes and provisions from him, and
80, "by a simple mathematical process" !"
you will conclude that Sam has bonan-
"a. Why don't I tell you about the
scar that disfigures his face? l will.
Common fame and Chinese history say
that Sam Hing was once upon time
hanged in the Celestial Empire for a
crime unknown. After Chinaman has
played Mohammed's coffin for a given
legal length of time his body is given
over to his friends, who are at liberty to
resusciate it if they can, in which case
the resuscitant must, like the late Carey,
and others, pack up and 'sgo'' for for
eign shores. Sam Kings vitality was
restored, and he lived to become an
American millionaire, with headquarters
at El Paso, and branches in California,
Colorado, Mexico and Arizona.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
Vanderbilt Pulled the Bell Cord.
lCor. St. Louis Repnblicap

lSoA. ot' .ALoulb itepUDnCd0.t
"Who's Johnny Walker? WHY.
Johnny's the worst, or the best engineer
that ever pulled lever. He's tn only
man ole Vanderbilt ever pulled bell
cord on.
Glow was that?" somebody asked.
"Why, you see," was the reply,
"Van'erbiP and gang of big uns come
down from Leadville. johnny was on
the engine, and he heard ole Van likes
fast travelin'. So he said to some OF the
boys, 'pll make his hair lift his hat, an
he did, too. He slung her way back,
an he pulled her wide open, an she
flew. was on the train, and it kept me-
mighty full Of business to stay on. We
dashed down through the CANYON and
aroun' every curve without single
slowing up; an there the New York fel-
ler sat, bangin' onter the window frame
with one hand an holfin' to the seat
with tother. They were goin' forty
miles an hour, but aroun' the curves an
through the close places it looked like
they were goin' about hundred, The
ole man couldn't stan it. He let 20 his
hold on the seat long enough to Jerk the
bell cord 80 hard he almost cracked the
bell. The train came to n stop ard the
engineer was sent for. Johnny erinned
and went back. Then Van'erbip he
asked him what he was goin' SO fast fur.
an Johnny said we wasn't goin' only
about fifty miles an hour! ana said that
was the way they allus went down the
canyon. Th' old man said, We'll.
please go little slower this time, cause
me and my friends wants to look ut the
scenery" j.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
rRoTrrNa HORSES.

How fast can horse trot? |? is a aues.
tson Professor William Il. Brewer, of
Connecticut, tries to answer from a
scientific standpoint. From his work it
appears thatiin 1843 only one horse had
trotted mile in 2:30 or better; in the
next decade the number increased to
fourteen; in 1868 there were fifty. nine:
in 1873, 576, and by the close of the sea.
son OF 1882 there were 1,64s. The table
shows further that up to 1882, 495
horses had trotted mile in 2:45 or bet
ter, 275 in 1923 or better, l56 10 2:2l or
better, 60 in 2;l9 or better, Is in 2:l7 or
better, and 8 in 2:l5 or better. "I leave
Ut to mathematicians," Professor Brewer
concluded, "to plot the curves which
Immediately suggest themselves to de-
tarmiae how fast horses will ultimately
trot and when this maximum will he
reached" Mr.. f. E. Nipher came to
the rescue as mathematician, and has
demonstrated, to his own satisfaction at
least, that the speed of the trcttine
horse will never reach 1852, but will con-
stantly approach it, aud in the season of
.@.222O or $50 years from 1860, which he
takes as his base line, the record will he
reduced to l:34. Ii somebody now will
figure out the French pools and the
Jockeys and the other adiuncts of race
for 300 or 400 years ahead, the practical
value OF this calculation will be fully ap-
preciated.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
Volcanic Disturbance.

A dispatch from Batavia, Java, under s.ate
of the 27th, says: Terrific detonations 'Scre
heard yesterday from the volcanic Isls.ld of
Krakato. They we're audible at Soerakrato, on
the leland of Java. Ashes from the volcano
fell as far as Chetibon, and flashes proceeding
from it were visible in Batavia. Stenes fell in
darkness throiss..::e:::sibe night. Batavia Was
nearly SO. all gas lights having been extin-
guished during the night Communication
with Anjier was stopped and it is feared a
great calamity has occurred. Several bridges
between Anjicr and Serang were destroyed, the
rivers having overfowed because OF the rush OF
the sea inland i@ lFsis
dispatch Of the 30th says the loss of life
by the volcanic erupions In the Malay Archi-
pelago is now placed at the appalling number
OF "a, 600. A mountain range disappeared en-.
tirely In the sea and ntinlber of islands with
all the villages thereon suffered like fate,
The catastrophe seems to be the zenith vista
ton of what will go down in history as
calamitous year.
dispatch from Batavia says the condition
OF the Strait of Suuda is dangerous to naviga-
ton. "A new island has arisen therein and the
coast line is altered. The government is pre-
pairing to obtain new soundings of the strait
Sixteen volcanoes have appeared between The
site where the island Of Krakatoa formerly
stood and sibisie Island. A portion of Bantam
is an ashy desert. Cattle are starving and the
population is in despair. soengepan volcano
has split in five portions. Seven hundred and
four bodies of victims of the disaster were
buried in the district OF Tanara, and 800 in
the coast village of Kramat.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
ENGLISH AS 1T is.

Itisa generally accepted belief that
English is nowhere as badly spoken as
IN England, but it was not thought un-
til recently that the people of that coun-
try e1celled in misspelling English
words. The variations in spelling are
there something frightful to the educa-
donal sense, and happy illustration Of
the multiplicity of combinations of let
ters to define one word is found In the
listing of militia" as made up from
addresses of letters to the training repi-
ments at York and Pontefract. There
were ninety-five different attempts al this
word. Among tho many were these:
Nalitia, meleshia, meletia, millisher.
milishea, militia, milisher, millicher.
milicha, melisser, Neither, mirlicher.
mulisher, merlicher, malisah, meliticher,
OF the number that were scarcely an
proximations are, melilia, maslach,
milata, militod, maitlia, melser, mitai-
lay, michuls, and malash.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06

From the New York Herald.l
Mr.. Porter Rhodes, the fortunate
owner of the priceless diamond that
bears his name, is at present i'll Paris
awaiting the result of a competition
between two millionaires desirous of
possessing the jewel. The stone was
found in his mine at Kimberley, South
Africa, in the beginning of 1880, and
made great sensation among the. dig
gers when the discovery was made known
about four months later. Mr.. Porter
Rhodes was obliged to satisfy their
curiosity by exhibiting the diamond.
Accordingly he placed it in a friends
office, charged sovereign for admission,
and in this way received e10O within
the first two hours. Altogether he made
by the exhibition G50O, which he gave
to the local hospital. On his arrival in
England he was honored with an invita-
ton to Osborne, in order that her
majesty might inspect the stone. He
was afterwards taken to Osborne cottage
aud had an interview with the Empress
Eugene. Mr.. Porter Rhodes considers
that his diamond as far surpasses the
kohinoor in putty as it does in weight,
the Indian stone weighing 1O65, carats,
the Cape diamond about $50 carats.
He said to his interviewer:
81 shall have at least fulfilled one
mission--I shall have convinced the
world that the Cape diamonds are as
radiantly pure and blue-white as the
Dresden drop and the Braganza.
shall upset one popular delusiop,"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06

80 that, when we refer to the almost IL
limstable meadows of tho Far West We
distinguish them as prairies. By a
park is usually meant an area Of
limited extent in which there is a fine
mansion, some woodland, and, possibly,
q small sheet OF water. But he who e1-
poets park in Colorado to resemble a
park in England will be as much mis-
taken as the visitor to Munich when he
goes to the so-called English Garden
and finds that. it--resembles. a public
park in London or Richmond. The
smallest Of the Colorado parks is Estes.
and it is twelve miles long. The North
Park has an area of 1000 square miles,
the Middle Park is thousand miles
larger, while San Luis Park covers 49,
600 square miles. 1t is with the Ameri-
can parks as with the lakes. A com
paratively small park is as large as a.
very large English county; an American
lake is hugeinland sea. For instance,
Lake Superior covers as much of the
earth's surface as England. When
speaking or writing about lakes or parks
in North America It is necessary, then,
to alter preconceived opinions and to
assign different meaning to the words.
This is specially true Of one of the latest
additions to the list of natural wonders
on the North American continent.
Among all those to which we have made
brief reference, and others for which
space does not admit of even passing
notice, none can be singled ont as more
noteworthy and marvellous than the
Yellowstone National Park"
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
TEXAS PARCHING.
Water Very Scarce in tho Big south
western state-Grass Cured ON the
Root and Streams and Wells Dried
Up Cattle Men Threatened with
Heavy Loss-The Stock Dying I'm
Great Numbers,

FoHT W6RTH, Tex, August 81
Texas is Just now suffering from a
dronth, and unless rain Comes soon the
loss, which is already immense through
the damage to cotton, will amount to
millions by the death Of stock for want
of water. In some sections it has not
rained for some months, and the grass
has dried until it is as crisp and brown
as cured hay, and all the streams and
wells have so dried up that it is almost
impossible to get water for household
purposes, not to speak of watering
the Thousands ST cattle that in
some localities r6atn o1et the prairies.
This deplorable state of affairs does not
exist SO much in this immediate vicinity,
where, though now very dry, we have
had occasional rains, and there is as yet
plenty of water in the running streams,
west are most disheartening. Farmers
who thirty days ago were confident of
a yield of near a bale of cotton to the
acre, will now be content if they get one
to ten atres, aud thankful if they make
enough from their entire plant to buy the
bare necessaries of life. In the districts
visited by the droutb, the cotton stalks,
that should now be lusty and filled with
maturing bulbs, are dry and withered,
and about all that can be made from
them is such bolls rs matured before the
moisture all lett the earth. But the
farmers in western Texas represent but
an Insignificant part of the wealth of the
country, and besides, they harvested a
fine crop of small grain and will get a
fair yield of corn, so they can manage
to pull through even if the cotton crop
is a total failure. Where the blow
falls heaviest, and unless heavy rain
falls soon there will be no need OF it
for many, is upon the cattlemen. Their
ranches are for the most part in poorly
watered sections at best, where thou
sands of cattle are dependent on a
slender stream of running water, or
pools scattered here and there over the
prairie. Aside fir, m the water upon the
ranches, it is probably many miles to
the next stream, and when that is
reached, it, too, is upon a ranch, and
only through the courtesy of its owner
can be obtained. In such time as this
every man looks out for himself, and
woe to the rancher who finds himself
compelled to start across the plains with
his herd in search of water. He may
have to drive two, three,
four hundred miles, and his
entire line OF march will
be marked by the skeletons of cattle
that perished. A gentleman just in
from the range tells me in some portions
of the range cattle are dying at the rate
of .w. ntr-fve per day from ea h herd,
and us stock cattle are worth from 500
to S25 per head on the range you eau
gain some idea of how much the range
men are losing. The same state of af-
fairs exists in southern Texas, and
stockmen Of San Antonio and at other
points accessible to railroads are ship
ping their herds by train to the northern
portions OF the Pan-H Handle, where, it ia
understood, the drouth has not been 80
severe and water is moro plentiful.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
SPORTING.

IT is said $40, 900 has been offered and
refused for the stallion Duquesne, and
still people ask, " Does it pay to breed
a trotter?"
The Turf, Field and Farm says Rich
ball, the great PAGER, a little less than
year ago was helping to herd cattle on
the plains, and was sold under saddle
for $115. ~
BALL players, like gamblers, are fool
ishly superstitious. Williamson holds
a notion that a stone, pitched over the
plate at times when Chicago PLAYER is
at the bat and hit is needed, is certain
to bring that wished for. In a recent
game with Cleveland, during the sixth
inning, he bobbed up with handful OF
small pebbles. Gore got a pebble, his
base on balls, and run. Anson an.
other pebble, a three-base hit. and an
other run; and Ed himself got single,
but it put him on a base where he could
pitch no mere pebbles, and, though
Burns secured q hit without the pebbles.
Williamson never made run, and Chi
cago couldn't win.
THE bicycle has reached China and is
astonishing the natives. A letter from
Pekin by the gentleman who intro.
duecd cycling there say . &c inhnblt,lu,s Q
l"stare att in great wonder. When I
dismount l have crowd around me in
a minute, which soon increases to a
hundred If Istay." The Celestials ex-
hibit their wonderment by raising ga
great shout" as the rider glides swiftly
away, and some try to keep up with
what they term "f'ye sing cheh, y
which means self-going cart, but are
soon glad to give up the contest. "What
astonishes them is that the bicycle goes
quicker than horse" and many have
been the inquiries by curious China
men whether it contains spring to
make 1t go.
DURING the past week the relative DO
sition OF the league clubs has remained
unchanged, although Providence has
tied Cleveland on games won but still
occupies second place, having lost two
games more than the "Gilt- edged" )"
Chicago is improving her chances for
flying the pennant by winning three out
OF the four games played during the
week. Boston holds fast to fourth
place, with Buffalo, New York. Detroit
and Philadelphia following in the order
named. The following table shows the
relative positions OF the clubs in the race
Tor the pennant during the week:
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06

PEORIA, H.; September 1.-Ata late
hour last night it wss learned that war
rants were out. for tho srrest of Alva
Lucks on the charge of forgery to the
amount; of $4,000. Lucks lie states
attorney for this county and he is also
short in his county account So, 900 or
S6, 900, bringing the whole account up
to $4,000. This wasall lost.in gan. bling,
in which promin ent persons Ia this
community participated.
ANOTHER LAWYERS TRICKS.
/ Co1uMBTA, S. g., September 1.-John
Z. Price, n young lawyer Of Pickens
County, who has hitherto stood we'll IN
the community, has absconded. Ae
was postmaster at Prices post Office in
that county and employed an assistant
to run the office While he remained at
Pickens, the county sGat, practicing his
profession and holding tho Offices of
warden, clerk, and treasurer Of the town
council. Price also kept tile post. Office
books at Pickets, ordered all stamps.
postal cards and envelopes, and
made returns in his own name. The Of
flee is small one, where the stamps
cancelled during quarter could not les~
ultimately amoniit 10 $50. AS his pay
depended on the amottns OF stamps can
celed, Price would order shout $3.50
worth every three months, sell them at
reduced price, pocket his comn1isson OF
60 per cent and report the stamps Can
celed. Through his influence two other
post offices were established in PickenA
County, which he manipulated in a
sift1ilar monner. He is alro alleg-
ed to have dealt extensively in
lllicitly ly-distilled whisky, and for this
crime the revenue officers were seeking
to arrest him when he fed. Price had
been carrying on the double scheme OF
swindling the government for nearly
two years, and made handsome thing
of it, dressing stylishly, wearing fine
iewelry. and spending money literally.
As town treasurer he had collected sev-
eral hundred dollars Of town taxes which
he carried off with him.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
The New Jer,cv s,o,.,..

An Atlantic City. N. j., dispatch of the 29tb
says: There is not place on the beach front
that has not been damaged to some extent by
the high tide and heavy surf to-day. The to.
tai loss will not be less than $4,000. Long
before high water, which was at o'clock, the
board walk began to wash away and by high
water the beach along the center Of the city
was mass of debris. Houses, restaurants,
photograph galleries and stores with dwellings,
attached, which were built SO far from tie
surf that it was thought no sea would reach
them, werc undermined aud carried bodily into
the ocean and beaten by the waves into frag-
ments. Two hours after high wat ter to. night
the tide had fallen but little, and great anxiety
Is fet about the next high water, as the wind
IS from the northeast and is increasing.
Should it continue until high water tomorrow.
the damageawill be more than double that OF
to-day. The surf was by far the heaviest ever
seon here. tR+E - -
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-09-06
Folklore About Teefh

Mldwlves, nurses and grannies have a
great deal of folk. lore and learning
about teeth, says the Cincinnati Enqui-
rer. lbey tell you OF charms to keep
away the pain, and have odd remedies to
aid nature and babies gums. In Sus-
sex they say that if you put on your
right stocking, right shoe and right
trouser.leg befole your left, you will
never have the toothache. In other
places there are such charms against the
toolhache as drinking out Of skull
taken from graveyard, taking a tooth
from such a skull and wearing it around
the neck, applying the tooth of the de-
ceased party to the living and aching
tooth and thus drawing out the pain,
carrying double nut in your pocket, or
your finger and toe nail pairing wrapped
up in paper, and other like nonsensical
whims. Fresh butter and honey, the
BRAIN of a sucking pig and the milk of
female dog, the brain of bare and
blood from cocks comb, were all old
grannies' remedies for teething babies.
But now the lancet, with flash and a
dash over the swollen gum OF the baby,
has forever consigned all these weapons
OF superstition and tools of ignorance to
the things that once were, but are no