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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

The cash grocer, offers special prices on
wines and liquors for the next 30 days in
order to reduce stock. / will sell for
cash as follows:
Good table claret, Soc per gallon.
Good sweet catawba, SOC per gallon.
Good Hook wine, Zoo per gallon.
Good Riesling, 81 per gallon.
Good sherry wine. 81 25 per gallon.
Good port wine. 81 % per gallon.
20 cases (quarts) Mumm's Extra Dry
Champagne at S24 per case.
Call before all are sold at the cash
grocery store. EMANUEL ABRAIIAMs.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

Notice is hereby given that a mass
meeting will be held In Scholz's hall, in
the city Of San Antonio, at $50 o'clock,
next Saturday evening, August 0, for
the purpose OF ratify!ng the nomination
Of Blaine and Logan and to organize a
Blaine and Logan club.
All persons favorable TO this object,
form adopted at Chicago, are cordially
invited to be present.
GEORGE PAscHAL, Chairman,
Tenth Congressional District.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

The Best Salve In the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re-
quired. 1t Is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box. For sale by Rice
Brothers a Co., Soledad block.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07
Still Being Feasted.

The New Orleans Quartette visited
the San Antonio club and the White
Elephant this morning, and at both
places sang several songs and partook OF
champagne punch and lunch.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

With good twostory house, galleries,
out houses and improvements, with an
abundance Of spring water, together
with good paying grocery business,
800 acres Of land can be had. and an ex-
celent outside range. A good place for
the right man.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

Takes pleasure In informing her friends
and pupils that she is now located on
Acequia street, opposite the public High
school, where she Is prepared to give
lessons an Piano, Violin, Guitar or Or
gan, Charges 81 per month. or 80 cents
per lesson. S-4-lm
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

The water rent for quarter ending
October 81 being now due, parties in
terested will please call at the office on
San Pedro Avenue and arrange.
WArRRwoRKs COMPANY.
August l, 1884. s-4-6t
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

The cash grocer, can offer bargains in
wines and liquors; 206 Commerce street.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

have large lot of fine cedar char
coal for sale. l.. +. HOFFMAN,.
7-l9-tf No. 900 Alamo plaza.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

A neat rock cottage of five rooms,
centrally located and furniture for sale
at 10 cents on 81 Of its cost. Apply to
HuTON 4 Young,
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

Bought, sold, stored or repaired at 40i
East Houston street. 7-lltf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

Lot on San Pedro avenue, corner OF
Marshall, next to the Bonynge's resi-
dence, by Hilton 4 Young. 7-23-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

In wood pals at bottom prices for cash,
D6 Commerce street. The cash grocer,
7-23-tf EMANUEL ABRAHANs.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

n Young. 7-23-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07
Police Report.

During the past month the following
number OF persons have been fined in the
police court for the ofienses designated:
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-08-07

Every smoker should try ''Little Joker"
Call on us for fine cofiees In Mocha,
Cordoya, Peaberry and Rio.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24

recognized and pauper dead. 1t must
largely contribute to defeat the ends
of Justice, since the bodies are at the mercy
of private convenience and post norton
examinations cannot be had with the care
which should mark their conduct. 1t ap-
pears also that the method of farming out
the dead in San Francisco results in their
burial in manner that is disgraceful to
the city. All this ODonnell proposes to
remedy. He asks for the establishment of
a public morgue, with properly-ftted
laying-out room and refrigerating appara-
tus; with slabs on which bodies may be
viewed through plate glass windows, that
the odors of the room may not reach the
spectators; for retiring rooms for visitors
for operating rooms for physicians NOR
tuary chapel for the use of the poor
and jury-room for the Coroner.
He asks that the poor be decently buried,
and that their bodies shall no longer be
made subjects of contention by rival under
takers. There is reason in all these de-
mands. There is 10 denial to be made OF
them in decency. 1t remains to be seen
if the city authorities have the courage to
resist the undertaking" influences and
accede to the requests of the Coroner-elect
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24
PARKING OUT THE DEAD.

Despite the sport that has been
made of the candidacy of the cranky DIR.
ODonnell for the office of Coroner in San
Francisco, and the contempt with which
his name has been treated, now that he has
been elected, he comes forward with propo-
sitions that are sound and the very state
ment of which constitute just rebuke to
that city The Coroner-elect, whom the
Chronicle so bitterly opposed, and whom
the people elected by a phenomenal vote
to rebuke the Chronicle writes TO the local
legislature of San Francisco and proposes
that public morgue be established, where
the unknown dead may be laid pending
Identification, and where the bodies of
those who meet death by violence can be
examined with a view to ascertaining the
true cause of the death. II is 4 matter
that should make the ordinary citizen of
San Francisco blush for shame, that in all
these years the municipality has had so
little care for the dead that the morgue still
is, as it always has been there, mere back
room TO the shop of an undertaken, who,
for the profit that accrueS from business
brought to his place by the location, fur
nishes temporary accommodation. This is
literally farming out the dead. 1t results,
as 0Donnell clearly points out, in dis
respectful treatment of the unre-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24
PACIFIC COAST ITEMS.

Tacoma, w. T., has tub and pail fact
DRY.
The lower Klamath, Oregon, is being
surveyed.
The Courthouse at Santa Rosa will soon
be completed.
Tacoma w. T., has incorporated wooden
pipe manufacturing company.
On Monday night, says the Folsom Tcle-
graph, as Daniel McLain was returning
from New York ravine i'll buggy belong
ing to Mrs. Donnelly, he met Messrs.
Schone and Monroe on horseback. Dan
drove to one side of the road, expecting the
horsemen to pass on the other side. The
night was quite dark, and, Mr.. Schone en-
deavoring to pass Daniel without going
around him, a collision resulted, one of the
shafts of McLain's buggy entering the
breast of Schemes horse, inficting injuries
from which the animal will probably die.
In speaking of the work being done on
the Folsom bridge, the Folsom Telegraph OF
Saturday last says: The repairs ON the
bridge will be completed to-day. This has
been queer job. Only one-half of the
planking constituting the floor of the bridge
the half reaching from the Ashland side
has been replaced, though the boards on
this side were equally worn and unfit for
further use The old floor beams, which
were as good as when they were put down,
were taken up and replaced with inferior
timbers. The work was done in accord
ance with the recommendation of an expert
from Sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York Saturday Government bonds
were quoted at 1221 for As of 1907; 1145s for rs
sterling, 81 s2@4 Sc; 1915 for 9s silver bars,
1851
silver in London, Sgd consols, 1Ol9sd; 5
per cent. United States bonds, extended, 1O5; as,
12514; 415s. 1l63s.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at SS94@s914 cents.
Mining stocks were only fairly active in San
Francisco Saturday, and prices were generally
soft.
The Mormons believe the Democrats will ad-
nit Utah as a State.
CattIemen's Convention adjourned sine die
Saturday at st. Louis.
A mob took Amstead Williams from the Jail
at Madison, Fla and shot him to death.
Clevelands majority in Virginia was 7,715.
Great depression of the manufacturing inter
ests is reported from the East.
Distressing reports of drought and disease
continue to come from Virginia.
lunatic has been discovered near Reading,
Pa. who has been kept chained for thirty-six
years by his nephew.
A fFightful panic occurred in theater at
Valencia, Spain, Tuesday night.
Germany proposes to annex several islands OF
the Pacific ocean, as well as part of New
Guinea.
A crusade is in progress in Switzerland against
intemperance.
The Jesuit College at Quebec has mutinied
against an order of the Pope.
The distress among English ship-building
workmen is increasing.
Large reinforcements are being sent from AL
giers to the French army in China,
A serious runaway accident occurred yester-
day near Livermore.
Republican primaries were held in Los
Angeles Saturday.
A. d. Cameron accidently shot and killed
himself Saturday near Gilroy.
J. o. Shafer was found dead Saturday ct
Woodland.
In railroad accident at Bridger, Wy. T., Fri
day, an engineer was killed and fireman and
brakeman badly hurt.
Lewis Mcdaniel was waylaid and murdered
at Astoria, Or, Saturday night
Henry Rhine was run over by freight train
at MERGED Saturday night, and killed.
At Albina, Or, yesterday, John Bender shot
and fatally wounded Hans Roch.
Portland, Or, is infested with burglars and
other bad characters.
December 1st the Oregon Short Line will'com-
mence running trains from Portland to Omaha
without change of cars.
By the capsizing of a ferryboat on the Tennes-
see river, yesterday, six persons were drowned
a-man, two women and three children.
A Convention of colored men is called to meet
in New Orleans December nth
The third solemn session of the Catholic Plen-
airy Council was held in Baltimore yesterday.
A slight shock of earthquake was experienced
yesterday in New Hampshire.
terrific storm of rain and wind prevailed
yesterday at Wilkesbarre. Pa.
The Grand Opera House at st. Louis was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday, causing loss of s125,-
coo 70 $4,000.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24
LICENSING GAMES,

just at this time Sacramento is the tar
get for the whole State. 1t is a capital
head, and every hand is raised to deal it a
blow. The excuse for all the abuse now
showered upon the city, is the thieving of
young January, who squandered other
peoples money in gambling. Sacramento
is not angelic that temptations exist here
no one denies; that her people have been
Inundated and disgraced by quasi-in-
dorsement of that which the State can
make a crime, is true. But our neighbors
should remember that if there are notes
in our eyes, there are beams in their own
Gambling is general throughout the State
and young January learned the games and
lost large portion of the money in other
towns. Moreover, very large part of it
was lost in games not prohibited by State
law, and that are played everywhere, not
even the San Francisco ordinance wholly
suppressing the most vicious of these
There IS no excuse to be made for the act
of our authorities that comes anywhere
near eounterbaIancing the injury to the
city resulting directly from that act If
the officials would take pains to inform
themselves concerning the assaults being
made upon the city, the bitter criticisms
INDUCED in, the lies told of us, the prejudices
that are being cultivated at our expense,
and the friends that we are losing politi-
cally and commercially, we are inclined to
believe that they would consider the sum
received for licenses too dearly purchased.
We are perfectly certain of the accuracy
of the statement when we say that the
new attempt to license games not now I'M
lawful, is contrary to the moral sense of
this people and opposed to the wishes of
the very large majority. The Trustees
have the power to do as they please, but
let them remember that there will come Il
day Of reckoning. If they wish to do any
thing, and have the courage to do it, let
them follow the example Of San Francisco
and legislate against, not in faror of the
dice, poker and 'stud-horse' games There
are but two sides to the question, one is
right and the other wrong. The man
with a growing son or daughter is pretty
sure to determine for himself which is the
RICH: side for that child's welfare. BY the
time the Ieoislat:re meets. this peoplc will
find out how the Representatives of the
other counties, cities and towns esteem
this matter, and the revelation, we fear,
will not be very pleasant.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24
PUBLIC EXECUTIONS.

It is said that the execution of Bateman,
murderer, at Savannah, the other day.
was witnessed by 10000 people. Many OF
these drove from twenty to fifty miles " to
see the hangin'" That Georgia should
cling to the revolving system of public ex-
ecutions, is as inexplicabIe as that Della
ware should adhere to the harbarous
whipping Of criminals. All experience
proves that public executions exert ex-
ceedingly pernicious influences upon a
people. They appeal to low and brutal
passions; they cultivate a morbid taste
they in no wise make crime horrible, or
exercise restraining influence. The very
fact that people left their vocations and
drove fifty miles to witness the choking to
death of a fellow-being is in itself testi-
mony of an absolutely convincing character
that the public execution does not excite
emotions in the spectators which tend to
restrain them from crime, or inspire them
with It's awful character. Even eXecu-
tions within jail-yards, in the presence OF
forty Or fifty spectators and on given day
and at given hour, rs is the custom and
law in California, should be prohibited.
1t is found that thousands of people gather
outside of the prison walls in such cases
| and feed their morbid fancies by the vivid
ness of their imaginations and speculate
upon the precise moment at which life is
forcibiy elected from the criminal.
The system most consonant with reason,
that will be most efficacious as a deterrent,
that will possess the least vicious charac-
teristics, and make crime and its results
most odioIs, is that to which we firmly
believe society viii come before lons-to
wit, absolute privacy of the execution,
not single individual being permitted to
witness it; profound secrecy as to the day
and hour, none but court officials being
cognizant of it, and they being bound
under severe penalties to its keeping.
Thus, when the final judgment Is passed,
the condemned would, to all practical in
tents and purposes, be cut off from the
world He should be civilly dead from
the hour of his conviction. His name
should not become common in the public
mouth, nor his cell be made the scene of
sentimental romancing on the part OF sickly
cranks who fawn upon murderers. He
would be given no opportunity to pose upon
the scatfold as a hero, or to . die game
He would, as under the French system, be
known only by a number, and his sole Wis
itors should be his spiritual counsel. or and
those first in relationship. In every way
possible the infamy Of his taking off should
be augmented, and the greatest privacy
possible Will contribute to that end. The
execution can be effected without even the
immediate presence of the executioner, or
the interposition of the brutal gallows or
mutilating guillotine The official record
of the execution would he as full as at
present, but the sensational press would be
cut off from their nauseating detailed re-
ports, that quite as much as public execu-
tions tend to demoralize the public taste.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24
for personal injuries sustained by heavy

for personal injuries sustained by heavy
piece of timber falling upon him.
George Harrington, who stabbed Michael
Keane on the 10th of last October, at po-
litical meeting on Howard street, has been
sentenced to two years in San Quentin by
Judge Ferral.
Mrs. E. Johnson has petitioned the Board
of Supervisors to compel the Poundkeeper
| to find and deliver to her dog which he
captured and which subsequently escaped
| from the Pound.
The Commissioners met Saturday, and
adjourned after having disallowed the pro-
| test of Mr.. Patterson, Republican candidate
| for Sheriff, against counting the vote of the
Seventh Precinct of the Thirty-ninth Dis
trict.
| Two large squashes are exhibited in the
| Clay-street MARKET. One weighs lbs pounds,
while the other just balances 1877 pounds.
They are respectively marked by the veget-
able vendor as the father and mother of
| squashes.
The Directors of the Blood Horse Asso-
citation met Saturday night and decided
to have a series of races on Thursday,
| Thanksgiving day, the entries to be open
until that time. 1t is understood that the
Association will offer a fine days sport.
OF the 81 deaths recorded at the Health
| Office during the week ending November
21st there were So males and Sc females !;
Caucasians, 81 !; Mongolians, 6; Africans, l..
Natives of the Pacific Coast, SO; of other
States, 10; of foreign countries, 43 and I'M
aScertained nativity, 3.
| The Chinese are circulating the report
that the Chinese actor, Cheong, captured by
Assistant District Attorney Carroll Cook
and J. J. Malonev, in the Chinese theater,
is not the man the officers were seeking,
but that the Mongol who is now out on
$1,000 bail substituted himself for the true
Cheong.
! Mrs. General d. D. Cotton met with a
very serious accident last Friday, and it
will be many days before she will be able
to move about 1t seems that she was
walking in the garden of her residence, on
California and Taylor streets, and while in
structing her gardener in matters pertaining
to the grounds, slipped and fell She was
unable to rise, and was carried into her
residence. The physician who was sum
moned found that she had suffered tract
ure of the knee-cap.
The demurrer to the complaint in the
case of The State of California VS.. r. C.
| Van Ness, former immigration Commits
sioner, has been overruled by Judge Sulli-
van The action was brought to recover
sums alleged to have been retained by him
in excess of his fees. The demurrer was
taken on the ground that the law was I'M
constitutional, being an invasion by the
State upon the jurisdiction vested by the
| Constitution in Congress. Judge Sulli-
van said that the action of the 1mmi-
grafton Commissioner simply resolved
itself to this That he had the money and
refused to pay it, and that to him there were
no just grounds for entertaining the de-
murrer, and so he overruled it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24
ELECTION REFORMS.

The Aita calls for some change in the
California election laws to expedite the
counting of votes at elections and the an
nouncement of results. But our contem-
porary does not follow it up by suggesting
the needed modification. One thing that
would expedite matters, and free the cleo
tions largely from the evils Of trades, y
would be the use Of more ballot-boxes at
each polling place. There is no reason
why one ballot should contain the names
of all persons to be voted for at one cleo
ton The voter can, without greatly in
creased trouble, cast ballot for Federal
officers in one box, ballot for State Off
GERS in another, and for municipal officers
in third. -Four ballot boxes are used in
New York State, and practice has proved
that voting is expedited and the voters not
inconyenienced. The change, however,
would carry with i of necessity a change
in the law regarding tickets, so as to per
NIT differently tinted paper to be used at
one box from that at another. Still an
other needed reform is law compelling
election officers to swear in sufficient
number Of clerks, 50 that they may be di-
vided into relays or relief corps A tally
clerk should not work more than ten hours
in the polling booth. Beyond that the
demands for physical rest are 50 exacting
tina. he is liable to commit errors in the
monotonous and wearying task of checking
and tallying. A tally clerl, should not
keep the poll list, either. The custom that
now prevails makes the poll list clerks
tally clerks, and thus after working all
day they are required to work all night
also. This does not conduce to speed,
while it opens the door of possibility still
wider TO error.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-24

THE HoP MARKET. T. Cochran & Co.
of San Francisco issued the following cir
cular on the DIST: The market continues to
remain in an inactive condition, which is
redeenlable, however, by a steadiness of
tone which resists all endeavors to break it
down. To go on the market here to buy,
III cents would have to be paid for prime
hop, and if the same was offered for sale,
Is cents would be the highest bid. The
same condition of affairs exists in the New
York market, where % to "a cents has to
be paid to secure choice goods, and the
same lots pressed for sale would not draw
over 20 cent bid These facts augur well
for the future of the market. Now that the
result of the election is settled, business in
all lines will improve; already we have
inquiry from western brewers, asking that
samples and prices be sent them, which in
dicates they are getting anxious and will
soon commence to buy; and we believe
that in q very short time the inquiry will
be general, and then we will have an active
market, for, with the advent of few, the
whole troop will come on the market, and
then we may expect hops to bring their
true value Prices still remain nominal.
Receipts for the week, 376 bales.