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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

The Houston Post says: Congressional
provision for the Presidential succession has
been agitated since the death Of Garfield, but
no settlement Of the matter has been made.
MIR. McCord's bill now before the House is
probably the most reasonable and acceptable
Of all the schemes proposed. The provisions
in brief are: I. That the Presidential cleo
tors shall continue for four years to exercise
their Office so far as that they may be called
upon to supply vacancy caused by the death
or inability Of both President aud Vice Presi-
dent. 2. That the Secretary Of State shall
perform the duties OF President ad interim,
and shall issue proclamation converting the
Board Of Electors to supply the deficiency.
3. The same procedures shall be observed
as in ordinary elections. except the counting
Of the electoral vote, which shall be done on
the second Tuesday after the meeting and or
gani.ation next succeeding che regular session
Of Congress, or il Congress be in session on
the eighth Tuesday after the election. This
plan Of Mr.. McCord is simple and satisfac-
fory one. 1t is thought it will meet with but
little opposition, and its passage will put at
rest question that has vexed Congress and
the people for some time"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05
SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1854.

IT is asserted that every gambling house in
Philadelphia is closed.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

For sale. rick work done cheap. Cisterns
a Especially. BNo. a25 Lavaoa and 20 soedad
street. HENRY HUNT.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

As general thing the saloon business is
not numbered among the failures in business
circles, but in a number Of Kansas towns late
ly, the publcans have gone to the wall with a
suddenness that is suggestive Of financial dis.
aster beyond recovery.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05
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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05
1884.
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day carries instruction and entertainment thou
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1t will always be the aim Of the publishers make
Harper's Weekly the most popular and attractive
this design to present constant improvement in all
those features which have gained for it the conf
dsnee, sympathy and support Of its large army of
readers.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

The numerous business failures reported
every day from all over the country seem to
indicate that the times are close everywhere
But the general opinion Of men who are in
position to know, is that all the country really
needs is to be let alone, and business will
even itself up. Tariff tinkering by Congress
can be looked upon as a calamity.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

THE building boom San Antonio most needs
at the present time is that of cottages. Rents
are altogether too high, and houses are too
scarce, there being scores Of applicants in
answer to an advertisement of house to rent
The want OF houses drives many people away
from the city, because they find it impossible
to get suitable quarters.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

TxE recent agitation Of the street and sewer
improvement, has developed the fact that
there are no mossbacks running for Aldermen.
Public opinion is in favor Of improvement and
progression, and the man that stands in the
way will get stepped on.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

THE Chicago Times says "Stories reflect
ing seriously upon the prowess of Mr.. Paddy
Ryan. are still in circulation. 1t may not be
true, as is asserted, that he has decided not
to meet Sullivan in the proposed Knockout
performance, but quite a number Of persons,
would have an increased respect for his wis
dom and prudence If he had made up his
mind to that effect Ryan has met Sullivan
before-not by chance, the usual way, but in
twenty-four foot ring,-and the meeting was
decidedly to his disadvantage. Then, too, he
has mother, woman Of stern, heroic mold,
who was profoundly disguised with her son on
that occasion, and who, in the event Of his re-
ceiving another drubbing from Sullivan, would
probably give him far worse one herself.
Altogether, nobody will blame Paddy, II he
should allow some other pressing engagement
to interfere with his meeting the lad from
Boston,"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

A STATEMENT having been made that the
Worlds cotton exposition was in some man
ner under the control Of the Louisiana lottery,
Mr.. E. A. Burke, Director General, and the
Board of Management denounce the state
ment as ridioulously and UNANIMOUSLY false.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

THE continuance OF cholera in Egypt is a
danger OF no small matter. Judge Forman,
Of the International tribunal at Cairo, gives
some startling figures, when he says the
deaths last summer are estimated from 6S, 600
to 10000. A rigid quarantine may conhne it
in Egypt.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

BROOKLYN, New York, has inaugurated a
new scheme in its municipal affairs. Its
latest novelty, says the Tribune, sis an unpaid
Board Of Aldermen, which will 60 into power
with the new year. This will save the city at
least $4,000 annually, but saving in money
is not the only good result expected. 1t is
believed that better class Of men will be
willing to serve in the Board hereafter, that
fewer jobs will be put through it, and that
municipal reform in general will be more
easily promoted. New Workers will watch
the experiment with interest. This city is said
to not be yet ripe for municipal reform. Per-
haps that is SO. but II somebody would only
test us by suggesting that we should try to get
along without any Aldermen at ALL"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

THE less time wasted in flights oil oratory at
Austin this winter the better off the State
will be. Business is what the special session
OF the Legislature is called for, and it should
be attended to promptly and fairly. There is
apolitical bonanza in store for the man who
can so shape legislation as to settle the
troubles now agitating the western part Of the
State.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

HERE Is a pointer for our city police, which
might prevent few Of the many burglaries
reported. The Chicago Times says: IA
New York policeman, going to grocery
store TO get piece Of pie, discovered and
caught burglar, and it Is hence clear that the
prevalence Of crime in New York is due to the
unfortunate fact that so few policemen prefer
pie to something stronger"
The agrarian outrages in way OF destroyed
fences, will have the effect at an early day, Of
abolshing cattle kings. The large herds,
like the Indian and the stage driver, will have
to give way to the advancing immigration.
This result is inevitable, and the fence cutting
troubles have only FASTENED the time, and II
will, no doubt, prove Of benefit in the end to
the State. Smaller herds and better grades
will pay as great dividend as the old patri-
archal system Of stock raising, and the thou
sands OF acres now given up solely to cattle
will be parceled out into small farms.
WITH persistent crusade against 1t, the
habit OF carrying concealed weapons can be
broken up. The Dallas Times says: "The
pistol must 90. All classes Of people are
against them, and the penitentiary must be
the punishment for pistol carrying in the
future. As an illustration that the people are
considering it, we have only to point to res
oluton Of the Ennis, Dallas, and Waxahachie
hunting club, which makes II an offense for
any member. during the meetings OF the club
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

'fr IS an i'll wind that blows no good" says
the Bellville Standard, "and the latest report
from the seat Of war is that cattle have depre.
cia'ed in value in consequence Of the fence,
being destroyed. Now II they can only sue.
coed in making the butchers come down to
something like reasonable charges, the fence
CATERS will not be such bad set Of fellows
after ALL"
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05
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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Aye,'s Newspaper Anmaal.

N. w. Aver & Sons American News
paper Annual for 1884 is now before
the public, and to say that it is the
most extensive as well as the most COM
plete publication of the kind ever issued
is but stating what all must acknowl-
edge who g i've the work thorough and
critical examination. 1t contains a
carefully prepared list of all newspa-
pers and periodicals in the United
States and Canada, arranged by states
in geographical sections, and by towns
in alphabetical order. In this list also
is given the name of the paper, the
issue, general characteristics, year of
establishment, size, circulation, and adj
vertising rates for ten lines one month.
In short a vast fund of information con-
corning newspapers Of interest and i'm
portance to the journalistic craft, to
advertisers and to nearly every body
else is found within its pages, and the
wholeis so arranged that the information
sought can be readily turnedto. For full
ness, correctness, compactness of state
ment, variety and value of contents,
and freedom from favoritism or preju-
dice, it perhaps has no equal, and con-
sidering the size of the book and the
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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Tea GrOtcing in the United States.

Victor M. Hollingsworth, late divi-
sional manager of the Assam Doom
Dooma tea company, has written to
the Industrial Review letter upon the
cultivation of tea in the southern states.
Wherever the tea-plant has been
planted in suitable situations, even as
far north as New Jersey, it has flourish
ed. In Georgia it grows wild from plants
sent out by the department of agri-
culture in 1S5O-55. Mr.. Hollingsworth
states that even if tea were worth no
more per pound than cotton it would
still pay better than the latter. since
cotton must be cleared for, fenced,
planted, cultivated, picked and grubbed
cut every year, while tea is perennial
and needs only pruning and the manu-
featuring of the leaf after it has come
into bearing. AS for temperature, the
state of Mississippi stands midway
between Assam and the districts of
India. The rainful in Mississippi is less
than that of either of the Indian dis
tricts, but our authority assures us that
a rainfall well diffused over the year,
and most ample in the growing months,
in fact, little and often. is preferable to
deluge in any one month. The OBJ
lection of the want of cheap labor is
met by the proof that labor in Assam
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Keeping the Boys on the Farm.

In an extended argument as to the
desirability of farmers sons sticking to
the farm, the Cincinnati Commercial
observes that there is feature in this
matter of sons following the calling of
their fathers that is not sufficiently re-
garded.
The calling of the father may rise to
higher dignity when the sons adopt
the business, thoroughly learn it, and
proudly pursue it. The accumu-
lated reputation, capital, and business
of the parent can be inherited and pre-
served by the sons.
again, it is a law Of nature that
holds good in all the animal kingdom,
that aptness for any business may be in
herited, or may be bred, as We say of
stock. The great desideratum in de-
veloping race of trotters is to insure
an aptness to trot. And this comes not
from stock that has habitually been used
for the draught or chase or race course.
If the dam trots and the sire trots we
do not expect the offspring to be a
running horse.
The old Spartans understood this
law of developing an aptness for given
calling in the children. The Germans
of olden times developed race of war
riors on the same principle. .
"The law of heredity is so broad and
so powerful in its influence that it ex-
tends not only to color and form of our
race, but it extends to the temperament
and even to the tastes. The taste,
though like the muscle and reasoning
faculties, may be improved by educa-
ton. Still the taste and aptness for
any calling may be increased from gen.
Grafton to generation.
"Then, if we are to reach the highest
development as race of farmers, we
must expect it through the line of de-
scent. The sun must inherit the fitness
of the father, and take up the calling
and business where he left off, and his
son after him, and so ON. When this
shall become the custom in our farm
ing families, then shall we see greater
stability in society and a higher type of
civilization. Every parent has the
chief power to bring this work about.
The very independence of the farmers
life is to be the germ which develops a
race that cannot be other than an indie
pendent people. Our nation is to
achieve its greatness in the develop
ment of agriculture. Itspower at home
and abroad is to be established and
held through the arts of husbandry,
practiced by skillful and virtuous
race of farmers. ALI, then, that can be
done by the State or family to ennoble
and to dignity the calling, and to entail
its blessings and influence from father
to son, will add to the stability and
grandeur of the nation"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
The Empress Eugene.

Eugene de Montijo, Countess of
Teba, was beautiful woman of q,
who had had q youth of vicissitudes,
and was we'll known in many capitals
for her beauty, grace and rank, which,
having no fortune to support them,
gained her and her mother only the I'M
deserved title of adventuresses. The
malice of party has ragged fercely
against this lady's name, but there is
not particle of proof to sustain it.
Her ability, her affectionate devotion to
the interests of her family, and her re-
igious fervor are, so far as the world
knows, as unquestionable as her beauty
and her personal charm. No Queen in
history has better fulfilled Queens
duty as leader of the fashions;
while she reigned, the dress of
women was at once beautiful, decent,
and convenient. Hers was the prettiest
face, the most graceful bearing, the most
winning smile, in all that dazzling court
of the Tuileries. But she had Span
iard's love of political intrigue, and an
Andalusian's bigotry, and she contrib
uted powerfully to engage her husband
in the evil way that led his policy to
Rome and his army to Sedan. There
is story told by Arsene Houssaye-
certainly no unfriendly chronicler-
that at the Cabinet Council called to de-
eide the question of peace and war
after the final interview of Benedict
with King William at Ems, the pacee
party carried the day, and the Emperor
went to bed. But the Empress, being
left behind with the council, won over
to her warlike views the gallant De
Grammont and the absurd Lebpuf, and
reversed the decision, and then went in
triumph to the Emperor's chamber,
where he was sleeping the sleep of the
Just, and gained his assent to the fatal
declaration which vas made next day
by the iaunty De Grammont, with his
hands in his pockets, and by Oliver,
with his cgalr leger.-HaTper's Maya
zine.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Steel Making in China.

In the manufacture and use of steel
the Chinese appear to have attained a
very early and remarkable proficiency.
Chinese records do not enEghten US as
to the precise period at which the art of
reducing metals from their ores became
known in that country; but it is evident
that it must have been some centuries
before the Christian era. Mention is
made of steel in the most ancient of the
Chinese writings, and Leih-tze, an author
who hourished about 400 3. c., de-
scribed the process by which it was
made. In the Yu Kung section of the
Shoe King, Book l., it IS stated that
among the articles forming the tribute
of Yu were nautical gem stones, iron,
silver, steel, stones for arrow heads, etc.
Legge points out that, III the time of the
Han dynasty, iron masters were appoint
ed in several districts of the old Liam
Choo to superintend the iron works
With the exception of this passage,
however, it is considered probable that
there is no distinct allusion to iron in
Chinese writings older than 1000 B. c.
Steel continues to be manufactured In
China up to the present day. Mr.. James
Henderson, commissioner of Lihun-
Chang, the Governor General of Chilli,
Minister of the young King OF China,
states that the "steel which comes to
Tien-tsin from the Upper Yang-tse is
highly priced, and bears much higher
prices than the Swedish steel imported
into China"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Gettysburg Battlefield.


Department Commander Dyer, Of the
G. A. R., has issued a general order in
which he urges upon every Post and
comrade to subscribe for stock in the
Gettysburg Battlefield Association and
become part owner in the great place.
The organization already holds in fee
simple that portion of the grove near
Katalysine Spring in which General
Reynolds fell; s'Little Round Top" ~
the north slopes of Round Top, the
park opposite and east of the National
Cemetery, Meningitis Hill, Culp's Hill
and the 'swheat field" with the woods
south, which have been styled the
whirlpool of the great battle.
'All these grounds, >" the order states,
''remain as they were at the time OF the
battle, except so far as the marks have
been effaced by the operation OF ma
tural causes; and to large extent the
lunettes and infantry defenses have been
renewed and preserved as originally
constructed on these portions OF the
field" The association desires If pos
sible to secure all the land comprised in
the battlefield, and convert the place
into a sort of national park. AS funds
are raised portions are secured.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-09
Where the Beef Comes From.

It was during the last days OF the war
that the Texan cattle trade first assumed
large proportions. At that time North
western Texas was swarming with cattle,
which possessed little or no value on
their native ranches. They were not q
choice breed. Large, raw-boned, with
wild eyes and long, outspread horns,
fierce in temper and forbidding OF as
pect, they were about as low grade OF
the bovine race as could be found. The
COWS were never MIXED and the oxen
never yoked. Still. their flesh wei
meat, though rather dark in color and
coarse in flavor and texture, and meat
was at that time in active demand at the
North. Some large Government
contractors tried the experiment OF
importing them. They found that they
could buy 2 and 3-year-old steers in
Texas at Sc to SO per head, and sell
them in Missouri at $50 to $35 per
head. This paid very well. AT first
only small droves-or lunches, as
they are called in the West-of from
3OC to 500 head each were bought, and
so careless were the Texan stock-rals-
ers, and so high was Northern credit,
that the bunch was usually paid for by
note at twelve months. The cattle were
driven north through "the Territory"
Qndian Resergation) to the Neosho
valley, and thence along the boundary
line between Missouri and Kansas.
Coffeeville was one of the favorite mar
kets of the day. Old cowboys still
speak of it with oaths. 1t seems that
it produces the largest and most blood
thirsty herds of mosquitoesin the West,
and on hot nights the cattle, driven to
frenzy by their nsect-tormentors,
would stampede and scatter over the
country.
In the course of a year or two the
profits of the business became an open
secret, and capital was embarked in it
by several dealers in st. Louis and Chi
cago. From few hundred head the
lunches swelled to 1000 or more, and
the price of 3-year-oids rose in Texas to
$40 and $15. Simultaneously, settle
ments began to thicken on the Kansas
border, and, the settlers naturally OBJ
jecting to periodical invasions of wild
cattle, the Northern rendezvous was
moved to the vicinity of Topeka. 1t
did not stay long there, for many reasons,
and, after general consultation among
dealers, Abiline, a new town ON the
Kansas Pacific, some twenty-five miles
farther west, was selected as the future
cattle market of the Western country.
It was surrounded by rolling prairies
still covered with buffalo-grass, well
supplied with water, easily reached
from the South and connected with the
East by line of railway.-Lippincotfs
Magazine.