The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-06-04
IELEGRAPHlC NEWS.

johnson, the Mesmer,s,. Exposed--A Soy in
Luck nv.
NEw BRAuNFEIs, June 3.-There Is
great excitement In town about the
body Of William Aptmann, who was
supposed TO be drowned on Saturday
night. lie was in town until ! o'clock,
and riding towards home, said II the
river was up he would return with his
horse II had rained hard and the river
was over the bridge. Sunday the horse
had walked home without its master
and after search had been made by some
OF the citizens, his hat was found n mile
below the bridge he had to cross. but
there have been no signs OF his body dis
covered yesterday. Fine rains and pros
poets for good crops
BURNEr, June 3.--The stages from
the West arrived to-day, for the first
time for a week. The whole upper coun-
try has been inundated and in some
places great damage has been done to
growing crops by hail and washouts.
The San Saba river is said TO have been
several feet higher than ever before
known. "A large number of passengers
who have been delayed by the high
waters came In to-day, the stage being
crowded and many coming In wagons
and other oonveyances. Three wagons
loaded with wool came into Burnet 10
miles east OF Iampasas, coming through
that town TO reach our market.
kuLEES, June 3.-The Bolton Tele-
graph company opened an Office here on
june |, giving us direct Geographic com
muniontion between Gatesville, Bolton,
Lampasas, Austin and San Antonio.
Quite wool market has developed at
this point and wool buyers are begin
ming TO visit thn place. About G0.OO0
pounds were shipped last week. The
HERSHEY Bros. and Ray sold about 600
head OF cattle to Witioher, of Lampasas,
realizing for the same about $1,000. a
very heavy rain fell here last night and
continued all day. Farmers are anxious
to see fine weather as their small grains
are ripening. A vote on local option
will take place here on the nth of this
month.
GALVESTON, June IA lively sensa-
tion was created here to-day by the ex-
posture of Prof. Il. q. johnson, who has
been doing the town for over n week as
n mesmerist The exposure was made
by two Of his attaches, Norcross, Of New
Orleans, and Alonzo Collier, of San An
tonic. They assert that they had learned
their parts well under the tutelage Of
the professor, and that he had refused to
pay them for their services and hence
the exposure. johnson claims that the
matter Is false and intended to injure
him In his business. A personal diff
Guilty between johnson and the parties
named this morning ended in the arrest
n NFh n IL "a.
corder for disturbing the peace and COM
mitted in default. johnson is booked
for other performances here, but it Is
not known whether or not he will at
tempt to again appear before Calves
ton public.
EAGLE Pass, June Yesterday n lit
tie boy, working in an old field, about
one mile from Piedras Negras, discov-
cred chest of money buried about six
inches below the surface. Being fright
ened he recovered the box, ran and told
his mother. Upon investigation the box
was found to contain 5000 worth of old
fashioned square Mexican dollars, that
passed out Of circulation 30 years ago.
With the money were found some yalu-
able papers, which the boys mother
delivered to the authorities. and which
must be very valuable as they gave her
n large sum of money in addition TO
what she had already found. The ofll-
GERS would not divulge the contents Of
the documents. The money has proba-
bly, been buried at least 30 years and at \
time when human life was not regarded
of much worth in this country. The
owner was probably killed and with him
died the secret of the hidden chest. 1t Is
still customary among the rich Mexicans
to bury their money In this manner, and
many similar cases may arise in future
from similar circumstanoaa