The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-07
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

IT Is believed the French authorities will
released Byrne.
GENERAL DIAz and party took look at the
Austin menagerie.
THRrY-rIvf ways of popping the question
have been discovered.
GUsTAvE DoRR was originally Dorer; he
came of old German stock.
THE Paris Academy of Medicine offers
$1,000 for remedy against diptheria.
JUDGE HOLMAN has accepted the appoint
ment on the Civil Service commission.
BoGARDUs and Carter will have another
shooting match at st. Louis on Friday.
A PRussIAN student of Liege university has
been arrested on suspicion of being Nihllist.
FITZHUGH LEE and Lieutenants were met
at the railroad depot in Waco and escorted to
the hotel.
THE prosecution in the Star route cases
have closed with their evidence, and the de-
Tense will begin tomorrow.
The first meeting of the Texas Stock asso-
citation was held under tree. The last is
now being held at Fort Worth.
AN ENGLISH company is negotiating for
the water power of Lampasas, Texas, and
paper mill is in contemplation.
THE Pennsylvania Senate has passed bill
escheating TO the State telegraph lines that
consolidate with competing lines.
GOVERNOR IRELAND has been asked to
withdraw his nominations to the Senate for
notaries and regents for the University.
The old incident of the beautiful miss elop-
ing with the coachmen of her wealthy pater
was revived few days ago at Nottingham,
Eng.
Mr.. BERzANI, the editor of the Spanish
paper at Laredo, is having a warm time; he
has been challenged twice recently, and has
had his bed riddled with bullets.
THE Texas Legislature did little else than
talk yesterday. Some sections of the railway
commission bill were adopted by the House {:
the penitentiary lease was talked over.
AFTER dinner dances are getting to be in
vogue in London while it was thought the
Turkish sesta would. prevail. At all events
there is beer and Welsh rarebits in the evening.
N. w. Quincy was elected Alderman from
the Tenth ward in Galveston. Quincy is a
man of ability, and served as temporary
Chairman in the last Republican State con
yention.
DR.. Mary Walker, is not dead and all
paragraphs to that effect are canards. The
lady is still posing in masculine attire in one Of
the departments at Washington, sustaining the
Government as it were.
THERE is a barber in Sioux City who is
deaf and dumb. He was shot through the
head at Cold Harbor, which, however, YVES
not the cause. The cause was his medical
treatment; and now when he sees doctor he
almost breaks up trying to talk.
THE Mormon later day saints ask that the
circular letter of Mr.. Evarts, while Secretary of
State, to foreign governments asking that the
emigration of Mormons to the United States
should be prevented on the ground OF polyg-
amy, it being crime, be revoked, as it is an
injustice to them, as polygamy is no part of
their religion.
THE steamer Ontario, from Liverpool,
brought to Baltimore, the other day, cargo
of fine stock, consisting of I6I Hereford bulls
and heifers, ID Polled Angus cattle, and 20
Shropshire dam sheep, destined for Missouri
and the West. Among the lot was the cee-
brated Hereford bull Rudolphe, purchased
for 100 guineas-cver So, 500.
PUBLIC opinion in Louisville is that Mary
Crittner was abducted and pretence made
that she was to be placed in a convent to re-
form her. She had been taken from Taylors-
vile and was at the threshold of the Good
Shepherd convent when she escaped from
the carriage her guardian, Miss Mccormick,
occupied. A police officer took her in charge
and subsequently she was sent, pend
ing investigation, to the Home for the Friend
less.
A RESPECTABLE farmer named Land, from
Wisconsin. living 80 miles east of Waco, gave
a party, to which he invited his neighbors, on
the night of the 5th instant. Among the in
vited were two young men, named Varnell
and Walker. About midnight Varnell enticed
a daughter of Mr.. Land outside the house,
and, presenting pistol, forced the girl to 90
with him, and finally outraged her. On re-
to the house the outrage became
known, when Varnell opened upon the family
with his six-shooter and killed old man Land,
and, with his companion, Walker, escaped.
THE pneumatic or compressed air motor is
still circulation over Christendom, commend
ing itself TO many uses without entire success
in any. More than S. years ago an English
near London, successfully equipped
and ran locomotive with compressed air by
means Of cylinders, but it was found SO ex-
pensive that it was abandoned. A quarter of
a century later an inventor named Whaley, of
New Orleans, was on the eve of accomplish
ing the same result with the objections as to
cost obviated, when his success upset him and,
falling into dissipation, il passed into other