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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26
A BLIGHTED INDUSTRY.

Among the many attractions possessed by
Western Texas is the great productiveness OF
the grape, our dry and salubrious climate
being specially adapted to the growth of all
varieties, free from the common blight and
mildew, and up to the last year or two much
wine was made by growers, and found ready
sale at good prices. By reason of law
passed by a late Legislature, imposing a
special tax upon homemade wine, this indus
try has been done away with, and many acres
of fine and thrifty vineyards made almost
worthless. A few days ago LIGHT repre-
sentative approached a gentleman in this city
upon the subject of advertising his business
and he said since that law had taken effect he
had no business, whereas, before its passage,
he had built up a profitable trade in home
made wines. Leaving out the prohibition
feature of the question the grape culture in
dustry in the past is one that has
been profitable alike to the producer
and the manufacturer, and especially
so in Western Texas, and furnished
" oihhh
and it is an open question if the law as it
now stands is not positive check upon some
portions of the State. 1t is only a short time
ago when syndicate Of capitalists from Lis
bon visited Texas for the purpose OF examin-
ing into the possibilities Of the grape culture,
and while they we're completely satisfied with
the State and its climate in that respect, yet
they declined to engage in the enterprise be-
cause of the excessive special State tax, and
returned home without making any invest.
ments in Texas real estate.
1t is estimated that this season 5000, 900
gallons of grapes will go to waste in Western
Texas, from this cause, as beyond a small
local demand, there is no sale for manufact-
uring purposes, and many growers are con-
templating the question of blowing up their
vineyards aud putting the land to more valua.
BILE uses. Without desiring here to enter into
an elaborate discussion of this subject, we
submit if it would not be proper to have a
showing made looking to a repeal or modi6-
cation of this law, that would make this indus
try means of material prosperity to the
western portion of the State.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

proven profitable to the advertiser. All kinds
of advertising pays, but, like any other in
vestment it can be done improperly and un-
satisfactorily. But no business man who used
the columns of the newspaper judiciously in
making known his bushes and his prices has
ever failed to get good return for his outlay.
The Galveston Print, which, by the way, is a
successful and popular evening paper, thus
sums up the advantages possessed by an
evening paper as an advertising medium over
a morning paper in the following sensible
article
First-Because the cheapness of an even
ing paper brings it within the reach Of the
great body of the people.
Second-Because the laboring man as
well as the business man, when he leaves his
business and goes to his home, carries with
him his evening paper or finds it at his home.
When he has nothing else to do but to sit
down with his family and read the news Of the
day, after which, having time, he will quite
naturally look through the advertising columns
lOI INC pldCC WnCIG Cdn kDou
gains, and when he finds some attractive adj
vertisement where bargains can be had he will
call his wifes attention to the same, and in
this way the business man, from one issue OF
the paper, may secure quite number of GUS
toners. But such is not the case with the
morning paper, because the laboring man, and
even the business man, receive it just before
the days work begins, and he cannot do more
than 60 hastily through the local and fresh
news items, when the paper is thrown aside or
left on his front steps and he is off to business,
and 10 chances to one he does not again see
the paper, and as ladies generally have too
many cares to read the papers, the family ire-
quently miss the advertisement in the morning
paper. Hence we say, if the business men of
the city desire to advertise their business they
should select the evening paper"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26
u,s strike Wa, Very ar,af

Newport, Ky, Journal: Johnny, hurry
up and get ready for school or you'll be late "
81 amt goin, mother"
mot going And why notf"
"I've struck"
"Struck What do mean by thati"
"Why, didn't pap read in the paper last
night about persons strikin', and said that ii
was right for the oppressed to strike ?"
"And hope you don't call yourself OPP
pressed do you ?"
"Of course l am. II Teller does not want
to go to school and his mother makes him 90,
isn't he oppressed ?"
$50 you have struck, have you? Well,
Ill see if can strike, tool"
And as soon as Johnny saw his mother
reaching for the strap, his first strike came to
an end, for he darted out OF the house and
was down at the school house in a twnkling.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

Entered at postofice at San Antonio, Texas,
as second-class matter
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26
THE TELEGRAPHERs STRIKE
Glowing News of the Brotherh God Comm,
in from All Directions.

in from All Directions.
PITTsBURG, July 25.-The following dis.
patch has been received by Secretary Hughes,
of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers
New YORK, July rs Satisfactory arrange
ments having been made between the Broth
erhood of Photographers of the United States
and Canada and American Rapid Telegraph
company, all members working for that com
pany will resume work tomorrow morning,
July 20. John CAMPBELL.
CHESTER DEPOT, July 2s.-The manager
of the Western Union office, in this city, and
all his assistants we're ordered to Washing.
ton, and left for that city this evening. The
Office is now in charge of loyal operator
from Philadelphia.
CLEVELAND, July 2S.-The American
Rapid telegraph Office was reopened tonight
for business, the strikers resuming their places
according to the terms of the contract made
by the Brotherhood with the company. Thirty
operators are on duty tonight at the Western
Union Office, and are taking care no only Of
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

all local business but are helping other Offices
out. AS nobody struck at the Mutual Union
office the telegraph service here has abour re-
sumed its customary condition.
MOBILE, Ala, July 2s.-The Western Union
Office is running here with the Manager, the
chief operator and the Superintendent
clerk, assisted by two second-class operators.
The Columbus men struck tonight.
New YORK, July 2s.-The Western Union
at noon bulletined: East Boston one and a
half hours behind; way business in good
shape; wires south at Chattanooga still down;
New Orleans o. X; Baltimore one half hour
behind; Philadelphia clear; way business well
up; west Of Indianapolis business two hours
behind; Cincinnati one and a half hours be-
hind; St. Louis one and half hours behind;
Detroit clear; Cleveland clear and relaying;
Chicago one hour behind; Buffalo one hour
behind; Pittsburg one hour and half behind.
The following message came over the Sun
set railway wire:
To all operators:
PUEBLO, Col, July 2s.-Notiiy New Or
leans, Louisville, Chattanooga and all other
points that we all went out here to a man last
night. We are all well fixed. Will get $50
each in two hours and stick to the strike.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26
DvERTIsING RATES :
ONE PRICE-No DEVIATION.

One antlnre. lines, 81 Tor nrht lnseruoh' 20
osnts for each subsequent insertion.
specal notices next to reading matter Yl.oO
DER square, each insertion. Eight unes OF less
one square.
Reading matter, local column, 70 cents per
Ane first insertion and cents after nrst week.
Per month 80 centsa line.
Advertisers curtailing the term for which
bhev have contracted, will pay regular rates 1of
mai time during which their advertisement
remains in the paper.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS Sl.O per men
Cor firsJ Insertion, 10 cents for each suoseq en'
Insertion.
TRUSTEES SALES, S1.00 per inch for
arst insertion and 81 cents per inch Tor eacb
snhseouent insertion. Trustees sales ordered
for weekly charged same as Legal adVertise-
ments.
u1-Home advertising payable on hrst OF each
month Transient advertising payable IN au-
vance Only metal cuts printed Tor whlch al
extra charge of 80 per cent. is made.
rz-1. f. JOHNSON is duly authorized to
solicit and collect for THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT;
SsIbscribers not receiving their paper VIII
please make complaint to him or at the once
subscribers are warned not 20 pay their
subscription except upon presentation OF Il
properly receipted bill from this Office.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

Taken up and in city pound on corner of
East and West Houston street, on the Goth day
of July, 1883, one sorrel horse branded NJ on
left shoulder, one bay pony branded SRT on
left hip, Also taken up and In pound, July %,
1888, one sorrel horse branded CD3 on
the left hip, which will, ii not re-
deemed before sale, be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder, for cash at said pound,
at the hour of II o'clock u. m, on the eth day
of July, 1883.
n. Bids less than the amount fixed by
ordinance will not be received for any animal
put up at auction. PHIL SHARDEIN
7-2i-it Marshal.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26
HOW TO ADVERTISE.

The LIGHTS senior partner whom we will
familiarly designate as Gift" after number
of years OF close study and application of the
subject, has produced lecture upon the
subject Of judicious advertising, and we say it
to his credit he never knowingly lets pass an
opportunity of delivering it, and there are
numbers Of instances to show that his theory
Of iudicious advertising in newspapers has
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

Time nor tide waits for no man, but the sands
OF life continue TO how on and on, year after
year, never stopping, never hesitating in its
work of waste, unless occasioned by a Cough,
Cold or some Lung Affection where DIR. Bos-
anko's Cough and Lung Syrup arrests IL and
and ten. Go to G. Schasse, A. Dress, or l..
Orynski, druggists, and ask them for free
rial bottle of this medicine. They have them
to give away
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

THE Austin Statesman says: SIN tie saw
ings bank that was founded in the eastern
penitentary of Pennsylvania one year ago
with a view of encouraging industry
among the inmates by giving them a
per centage of their earnings, and
depositing it in the bank, there is about $4,000
to their credit already. Since the bank has
been started the convicts have earned by over
work about $4,000, and have sent over
$Iz, 900 to their families. This practice con-
forms somewhat to the plan lately set forth by
a writer in the Century. 1t is the true theory
upon which convicts should be worked, and
the Statesman predicts it will after while be
universally adopted"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26
PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY AT
slO EAST COMMERCE STREET.

~ FLIyERED by carriers throughout the city
| at 10 Cents Per Week, payable 10 our
agent. Single copies for sale by newsooys ~
Scents.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

ACCORDING to the tax rolls in the Comp
troller's office at Austin, Texas, contains
I,oo5,S5o horses; 2o5,329 mules; 4,7I5,96o
oxen; 6SI, $40 cows; s,6Is,44o sheep, and
2,o66, $40 hogs.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

THOMAS A. EDISON expresses himself, in
an interview, as being very much in sympathy
with the striking telegraph operators, and
gives it as his opinion that they will succeed
and accomplish the purposes of the strike.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

PARSONS Texas cavalry brigade will hold
its annual reunion at Alvarado, Johnson
county, Texas, Wednesday and Thursday,
the LIST and I'd of August. All ex-soldiers,
who wore either the gray or the blue, their
families and friends, all old Texans, and the
public generally are cordially invited.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

IT IS wise business man who plants his
advertisements during the dull summer
months, for in the fall he will reap big trade
and consequent wealth.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26
THURsDAY, JULY 20, 1888.

IT Is estimated that the cotton crop in Tex
as this season will be larger than it was las
year.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-07-26

THE Eagle Pass Maverick says: "There
is town on the International railroad half
way between San Antonio and Laredo named
Cotulla, which is unknown to the Postoffice
department, its postofice name being Lasalle.
Letters sent to Cotulla, Texas, 60 to the dead
letter office in Washington, there being no
such Office as Cotulla in the State. Parties
interested should be careful to address all
letters intended for Cotulla to Lasalle post
Office or they will not reach their destination.
Why don't the good people of Cotulla have
their postofice name made to fit their town,
or their town to fit their postoffice name %
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-06
Current Journalistic Exag-
geratlOns.

The great American liars from
Erie, Pa, and Texas have evidently
formed a partnership and estab-
lished branch offices in all the chief
towns and cities. They are turn
ing out copy fast. We have only
time to note the story of sparrow
which catches six ducks every day,
taking hold of them with its bill.
shaking them rs dog does a rat,
and then throwing them over its
head; of a young man in Alabama,
who for several years being desti-
tute of beard, had hard knot in
his neck cut open and found beard
all rolled up and nicely packed
away in his wen; Of Bridgeport
Conn., professor" who has invent
ed a brass bolt with nipple from
which he noiselessly projects a pellet
and which, in the presence OF wit
ness, killed a dog in fifteen minutes
without the animals knowing it was
hit; and finally of st. Louis man
who, by means of two plates of glass
one-thirty-sixth of an inch apart
and filled in with glycerine, has
made telescope with which he is
able to see a carmine sea, strange
bat.like birds, and insect men with
rudimentary arms and wings, or
antennae, who are fishing in the sea.
Detroit Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-06

A Philadelphia girl has patented
q medicine which will make gal
Ion of ice-cream minute. She
calls it the Mary Anderson freezer
There is a town in Missouri that
grows so fast, and there is railroad
through it with time so slow, that a
train which left the station last
spring has not cleared the suburbs
yet.
HYes," said a fashionable lady,
81 think Mary has made very good
match.&I hear her husband is one
of the shrewdest and most unprin-
cipled lawyers in the profession,
and. of course, he can afford to
Crafty her every wish"
"Where were you engaged last =
asked lady Of a new colored cook.
Yer oughtenter AK me dat. lady.
"I Just want to know, as it may
tend to give your character. "Wall,
lady. de las time l was engaged was
down in de bottoms. l was engaged
ter Bob Phillips, de triflnist yaller
man I eber seed. Why, lady. dat
man stole my year-rings and ruined
away. How many times was yer
self engaged, lady,"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-06

.uay all that, substitute aiting KIND md
ness ana If The gospel with more
nreaching r foryor than it IS now
pietv ana 70 10 them, and wait
Preached " Il is not likely that
for time Going to take possession
they are the United States. Ii
of all 10 IN INV such thing as The
there be o. ~ Intelligence over ig-
superiorit{f there he any such thing
as the tI TIL over an abject supersti
pure t taitb u if there be any truth ID
tious faLo all that liberty ema1clpstes
the neu: if it be true s sdec sne 20 ali
of Jesus .ssrSSe n1 Gle of depravity and
the em 1eass in high places and N
wickedneSs',,d - seem to me that the
l %sy Of the IS t tbs MAY have 81 gone
liglon1 a III nn 81. 1t is an odions
by. (APPb have such stink pot right
thing 10 aoid ds of the nation; we loathe
in the hem m thought OF polygamy, and
the the n don't see any other a.n way .ay to to
ytea1diicate it. So far as L can aa,s zee d.
era oaDt there are but two causes
preSisnbD v 1.-The the sword of the govern,
one Is a ny the other is by the word
nfT the Lord, and of the Two IL seems
d d me- that [ would a little rather
% ON a0 70 CII he sword of the Lord than
4. .oa'I the he sword of Gideon. ZAP
. ,Idns Sn Set the New Testament
S g@1rT Testament cannot whip out
.teSos and the prophets, then ii is
l not what it pretends to be. cap
llause.)
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-06
HERE AND THERE.

The president Of the Saginaw
board of education has been spelled
down on ALTAR"
The Chicago Nea0s speaks OF
"Thomas II. Hendricks" Perhaps
it means Chester w. Arthur.
Indiana thanked the Lord, last
Thursday, because there is to be no
Indiana Legislature this year.
"Where is the devil?" asks MIR.
Vending. MAY the devil never
ask, Where is Mr.. Wendling?
If L Lad an army at my back, l,
too. would be q successful prophet.
--Vennor on Foreign Prophets.
est is our intention TO enlarge
shortly" says HARVEST editor. HIS
subscribers hope it will not be bloat.
Notwithstanding the loud howl
ing. the Postmaster General still
keeps his Hateon.- Inter Ocean !
Why shouldn't he, if he is DaWled!
Why is the absence of a young
woman so quickly observed? Be-
cause. If she is unmarried, every
body Misses her, and if she IS mar
ried, everybody Mrs. her.
A French editor makes his contrl-
bu:ors pay when he publishes their
articles. His bill for waste-baskets
is so low that he gets back what ne
loses by subscribers dropping Off.
A Partisan mothers boys epitaph
lead: Here lies the body Of Eugene
Bonnevy; died az the age of eleven
months. His last words were:
Mamma. oh, la! la Pray for him.
"The Price She Paid" is the title
of a new book. If she bought a
remnant, and the price she paid
was what she wanted the remnant
for, the drygoods man didn't make
anything.
indianapolis has SO organized its
charities that those who get fOod
have to work for what they eat.
This makes charity very icy to many
persons who have hitherto taken IL
straight.
Sergeant Mason says he fought
against four uncleS and twenty-five
cousins while he was in the war.
No doubt the eccentric sergeant
mistook Mr.. Guiteau for one of those
four uncles.
President Arthur is never scared
when a crank from Kentucky ar
riyes to kill ihim. It is only when
an unarmed Kentucky Republican,
after another office, PUSHES IN on
him that he crawls under the table.
Courier j olIYfl0I.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-06
Farmers Congress.

Louisville, 5.-The Farmers Con-
gress Of the United States convened
to day at the Gait House. Sixty
delegates were present, representing
Kentucky, Tennessee, South Caro-
lima, Virginia, Mississippi, Colorado
and Indiana, and other delegates are
expected to arrive tonight. The
president of the congress is
Major Thomas J. Hudson, of
l. amar, Mississippi, who opened
the congress ana addressed it at
some length, setting forth the de-
mands and wants of agriculturiSts,
especially urging the appointment
of a commissioner of agriculture
as a member of the cabinet. Such
an officer, he said, could watch
our foreign relations in re-
spect to this interest, which
must ever be the greatest
He would be enabled to secure to
farmers labors better results, There
is not a farmer in all this country
who understands farming as he
should, and how ignorant must be
the cabinet and national councils
who have never studied it. The
prosperity of the country depends
on the progress of agriculture, such
being the state of affairs that all
deliberations of national bodies
should tend to its elevation. This
can never be secured till the
farmers are brought into body.
Let US, therefore, teach the farmers
their own interests, and raise cry
that will reach the Federal governs
ment at WASHINGTON,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-06
HOUSE.

y S@Stal56g on, g. The Virginia
VS. Wae election case Of Garrison
mitf -oas 20 was referred to the COM
WITH III VI elections when appointed,
0ueStin nsoructlons toreport the legal
II '' LUIS involved therein.
Hon, was ordered that when the
muse noot adjourned to morrow it be to
meet on Monday. ~ ~
roS STneS submitted the customary
ThO OrutIonS announcing the death of
and nYi H., ID. Herndon, (Alabama),
daoon III respect to the memory CT the
tn5O the , the House adjourned, with
Nil III understanding that no business
" l" oe transacted tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-06

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-06

Bob Ingersoll's middle name is
Green. Perhaps that's the reason
he thinks he will never burn.
"No," said an clipping woman.
"there isn't any Likelihood that my
husband will discover our where
abouts. He's New York detec-
tive"
"Your Honor" said the old bum
mer who was arrested while begging
money with which to buy drink
81 was as sober as judge. Yes,
sir" contained he. cycling the digni>
tary quizzlcally, "soberer." Thirty
DAYS sentence was the result.