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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-16

The depreciation in railroad bonds is
felt in various ways. One of my ac-
quaintance, for instance, invested q
large part Of his money in Ohio Central
first mortgages at SO. This was con-
sidered low for six per cent. bonds,
and as the issue was only three million
the annual interest amounted to only
S1S0,000. The road however, default
ed on its interest and the bonds are now
down to 20, There, too, are the West
Shore bonds, which have not defaulted.
They have been up as high as so, but
are now selling at 50. Cheap enough
for five per cent. bonds, and if really
good why should they be so low? Rail
road bonds, however, like all other
forms of credit, are easily affected by
report, and even by gossip, and this is
often the best explanation of such de-
cline. Railway bonds have also made
a sensation in bank circles since the
resignation of both the President and
Treasurer of the Bank of the Republic
is occasioned by the present decline.
These officers were induced to lend a
half-million on this kind of security,
and as the directors did not approve the
loan a resignation followed. H. w.
Ford (the late President) stood well
among business circles, but in an evil
hour he placed too much dependence
on road which does not meet expecta-
tons. | have seen several banks ruined
by loans of this kind, and it is probable
that the Bank of the Republic will be a
serious loser. l well remember the
first extensive dealer in railway bonds
(the late Simeon Draper who was ut
terly ruined and died a bankrupt. This
kind of property is only good while
credit is maintained.-N Y. Cor. Troy
IN. ~ Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-16

In the vicinity of San Pablo, Cal,
on calm, clear day, the rIimbling of
the cars on a trestle, located eighteen
miles distant, may be heard distinctly.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-16

The late Joseph Arnold, long
Cashier of the Birmingham Conn.
Bank, had a powerful memory. The
following illustration of it is related:
"a few years ago Mrs. Kimberly Ga
public reader then in vogue) read Long
fellows 'Hiawatha. Such an impress
sion did the poem make upon his mind
that after he got home he
repeated it from beginning to end with
out mistake, and he never for
got it. One day he Glanced to mention
to friend that when boy he read the
first chapter Of the Gospel of st. Mat
thew through once, and he had never
seen it since, yet he said he could repeat
it then word for word, which he pro-
ceeded to do (his friend holding the
book, hard genealogical words and all,
correctly"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-02-16

The longest lovers quarrel on
record came to an end the other day in
Bramford, Conn, when Miss Jennie
Durand and James o. Smith were mar
ried. They quarreled in 1925, and did
not meet again for lifty-eight years.
The groom is eighty and the bride
seyenty-seyen.-Hargord Post.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02
The Motley Fool.

Motley fool that am. have found ou, one thing to my sorrow, that Q Il men are liars. As we say in church. with up- lifted eyes. and pious voice, there IS no good in us" And from the pra,tling child who says she loves her mother. when she does not know what love is, and the sweet girl, just engaged. who vows she loves her lover. when she does not
 know what love is, and the son bending over his dying father and ferven,ly vow
 ing that his death will kill him, when he
 cannot die any too soon to benefit the
 fortune of that loving son. to the miser,
 growing old in the iniquity of loving
 gold more than his God. he dies, falsely
 declaring he loves his maker. whom he
 has falsely served, or wholly denied, all the years of his guilty lite, we are all
 liars. Most of the lies we tell are sense
 less no,hings, just for the sake of saying
 something, as meaningless as perhaps we are ourselves. And most lies are those of congregation. There is no need of mentioning in this way the printed lie of advertising which is fast working out its own destruction. simply, that by saying too much, II has come to mean nothing.
 But in every day life, in the simplest thing we say, in the smallest thing we do m our private actions. in our public movements, we never tell the exact truth. And if half lie IS ever the worst of lies, II being not exactly righ, is entirely doing wrong, then II has grown to be fearful thing to live. and say with simple truth, we cannot be truthful in anything. And all this has grown out of mere habit. More than this, the most fervent pro- lessor of religion that the Motley Fool has ever known woman strong Tn her religious belief, fervent in her prayers. fearful in her exhor,ations with others. has proved herself such an every day liar that almost every word she speaks is no, only exaggera,ion, but often deliberate iying. This IS personal idiosyneracy of which she IS entirely ignorant. Another instance, IS of the lustest man this Fool has ever known who is a man so unjust Tn his treatment of his own children tha, one left her home years ago driven away by his injustice. another child. son. is wanderer on the face of the earth to-day. two lovely daughters died from the ef- fleets of unhapplness caused by him alone. and yet that man to-day brides himself on his justice and probity. Many men. for less offences than he has committed have been so haunted by remorse tha, the typical hell was to them reality. It is time 10 look into this. each man for himself. If it makes him a better man by ;he honest effort. then the Fool is not made in vain. There is charming little story from Boccacio of Nathan and that IS worth more to the com mon conscience than many sermons from many pulpits. Read Il, oh reader. and
 judge for yourself.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02

!" Ah, what is that!" the old lady asked, with pleased wonder in her eyes. The player tried to explain. No, no, im- possible; there is no such betise in his opera. am sure. lfyou mean the Har- vest Song really, il goes this way. Listen" And she played ii, Madame x. added, as if il were a jig.
 What one artists finds 10 criticize and applaud Tn another is always interesting, and the following opinions expressed by MT. Alma Tadema, although colored by the Anderson craze prevailing in England, may yet be taken to indicate the impress sion she makes upon one who is particu- lariy sensitive to color and form: There was little to criticize" says NIT. Tacema in Miss Anderson's dress and appearance She moved like lovely Greek statue, taking successive and evidently studied attitudes that reminded the eye of the Venus of Milo, of the Daughters of Niobe, and of other standard works of antiquity. If her acting was not touching, how could 1t be otherwise in play so clumsy and silly as this, a play with no archco- logical pretensions al all. merely farce. Tn reality, and as such far removed from all that was farcical in the Greek spirit itself! In the first place, archaeology is confused by the fact that story which is laid by the poets in Cyrus (since paphus, the child of Pygmalion and the statue, was the founder of the city of Paphos, on the site of his birth has been arbitrarily transferred 10 Athens, so that all that is interesting and peculiar to the Cypriote tradition Of art, as the profasion of jewels and chains Of gold and washes nf color with which pygma- lion adorned the statue, is totally lost, Besides all which, and the aspect from which he, and all the other personages, regard questions of art, are so entiiely foreign to the spirit both of Greek and of an artist. that it IS impossible to blame Miss Anderson, and fruitless to examine the causes of failure, if the entire impres- sion of the piece IS far more Parisian than Athenian. IL IS no little praise to say, as must be said without any reserve. that Miss Anderson walked about the stage with harmonious and sta,uesque move ments, and that she was dressed, in the Greek manner, in a style which empha- sized her beauty. In several of her poses. especially when she asks, in the second act, What is an assassin :: the attitudes she took were of very remarkable merit from the plastic point of view
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02
Mike $ Free Ride.
Chicago fierala.l

Tickets ,ieke,>.' were the familiar words that resounded through the coach. They fell upon the ear of passenger who had entered a, the last station, an unshaven, shrewd and seedy-looking son of the old sod. Instantly he fell to searching in an inside pocke, of his over coat for the transportation passport, and was earnestly engaged at this when the conductor stopped at his side. The pas senger worked eagerly. the official wait ing patiently; but finally the former straigh,ened up and said: "A howl in me pocket. conductor; go lorg widger train an I'll find the ,hieke, atime ye coom back" As the train slackened speed at the nex, station the conductor returned, when the lrishman, whose search for the ticket had been fruitless. remarked: Let me of here, conduc- ther, dear {; did intend to go on to Teddy Hoot. but oim goin' back to get me ,hicket." As he alighted on the plat form an acquaintance salu,ed him with : " An it's home ye are, Mike? Will yer stay over Christmas?' "Indade l will,r " How's worruk wid yezs' Poor, poor. If hadn't bin lucky enough to lose me 'hicket shouldn't 'av got ere a, all"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02
What John Chinan,an Eats.
Portland O.econian.

|; will probably as,onish many 70 know that three-fourths of all the chickens brought 10 this market are consumed by the Chinese, and iha. nine tenths of all the tame ducks brough, here share the same fate. The longer one lives the
 nore he tnds by jimminy out, and in- stead of the Chinaman feasting on rat pie, as he is popularly supposed to do, he has just three times as much chicken pie on his biil-of-fare as the white man, and nine times as much stewed duck. The Chinaman is peculiar. Geese or turkeys he does rot care for. and wild ducks or any other game that has been shot are an abominaticn in his almond eyes. =" Heap like 'em alive.n is Johns remark when any dead fowls are offered him. His taste in fish is also peculiar. He avoids salmon, bu, goes his last nickel on suckers and sturgeon. or any saltwater fish which has been long out of water. We'll. the salmon is a royal hsh. It is death 10 dogs and does no, seem to agree with ChinaInen. The massive brain of the Caucasian Is the only one able to cope with aad success fully assimila,e the phosphorus and pha, of the luscious Chinook.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02
Bronco Sam.
Bill Nye. in Puck

Speaking about cowboys, Sam S,ewar, known from Montana to Old Mexico as Bronco Sam, was the chief His special delight was to break the warlike heart of the vicious wild pony of the plains. and make him the servant of man.
 There may be joy in a wild gallon across the boundless plains, ia the crisp morning, on the back of ice, bronco sut when you return with your ribs stick. ing through your vest. and find tha, your nimble steed has returned to town two hours ahead of you, there is a ,inge Of sadness about II all
 Bronco Sam, however. made a spe- clai,y of doing all the riding himself lie wouldn't enter into any compromise and allow the horse 10 ride him.
 In reckless moment he offered 10 be. ten dollars that he could mount and ride a wild Texan steer. The money was pu, up. That settled it Sam never took water. This was true in a double sense. Well, he climbed the cross-bar of the corral-gase, and asked the other boys to turn out their best steer, marquis of Queensbuy rules.
 As the steer passed out, Sam slid down and wrapped those parenthetical legs ofhis around that high-headed. broad-horned brute. and he rode him till the fleet footed animal fell down on the buffalo grass, ran his hot red tongue out across the blue horizon, shook his tail convul- sively, swelled up sadly and died.
 IL took Sam four days to walk back.
 A ten dollar bill looked as large to me as the Star Spangled Banner, sometimes but that IS an avenue of wealth that had not occurred to me.
 I'd rather ride buzz saw at two dol lars a day and found.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02
BEYOND.
PAUL PAsINoR.

There are domairs beyond the utmost star That sends its trembling beam to human kin, Where, whirling through the shoreiess gulf
 of space.
 The systems that ou,ride the Universe, Preserve the balance of the singing spheres. Within that unkn own region lie what laws, What poteneics of matter and of force: The eye of Science cannot penetrate The mysteries beyond but unto her All forces lie within the bounds of sense. So with the Spirit. There are depths beyond The utmost vision of the eye of thought. An, thence what larger truths may emanate Than lie within the knowledge Of the mind We cannot but believe that, al the last, This flame of life shall purge away the dross And mount from its last altar mp To heaven
 M ioh5 .ndSa=iHe.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02

The trees will not begin to turn over a new leaf until spring." said sad-eyed tramp, and as l always follow Natures teachings, l think I'll xai,'-Nt.v Yoyk /oEynal
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Late of Lord g. Taylors, OF New York. wishes
engagements In families by the day. Address
&c. g." LIGHT office. 3-1t-10t~
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19
LIGHT FLASHES.
VIVA, the Reporters Learned on Their Tour
Through the City.

what the Reporters Learned on Their Tour
Through the City.
e Conductor $. Mart's posthumus
child died yesterday.
The next issue OF the San Ant ONTO
Music Bulletin will appear on Saturday,
March %.
The courts are all grinding away,
but the cases now on trial excite but lit
tie interest.
The County Clerk this morning
issued a marriage license to Gabriel
Katona and Anna Kerestes.
The colored boys at the Hord hotel
don't want to work any more, it is said,
because of a change Of masters.
The children are looking forward in
pleasant anticipation to the masquerade
ball Mt the Casino next Saturday.
The sewerage question still agitates
the public mind and will until Saturday,
when 1t will eliminate in the election.
"A letter received from Manuel Her
nandez, at San Jeronimo. informs the
LIGHT of the death OF his little child II
months old.
Joe Foster is slowly improving, and
is now allowed by his physician to see
friends and converse little. He is in q
fair way to recover.
As the day of election draws near
the interest in the sewerage question
deepens. The whole matter will be set
tied Saturday.
There will be special meeting of
the Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent society
at 8 o'clock this evening. All members
are requested to attend.
A number Of valuable improvements
in various portions Of the city are in con-
temptation. There is large amount Of
work being done now and the building
boom bids fair to last all summer.
The case of Mabry VS.. the Pacific
Express company, for damages in the
sum of Sl3s 60, was tried before Justice
Adam yesterday, resulting in verdict
for the plaintiff in the sum Of 500. The
suit was the outgrowth Of the failure of
the express company to deliver some
railroad tickets to plaintiff with the
necessary promptness. Notice of appeal
was given.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

News has reached the city of the death
OF G.. +. Beacon at Bracket. Mr.. Bea-
con, who was formerly a United States
army officer, was cashiered from the
service on account Of conduct unbecom-
ing an officer and gentleman. After
leading a wandering life on the frontier
he went to Kinney county and in an
ARRAY there killed man named John
Piggot, for which he was to have been
tried at this term Of the court. but ere
he could answer for his deed he died of
consumption and his earthly trial blotted
ont
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19
BARGAINS OFFERED



Nice cottage, well built fronting east on
Milan square. No. '00b, offered for less than
present coat.
Now cottage, elegantly finished, 7 iooms one
block from San Pedro avenue, $3,5OD.
Two story oominodous houee Of IA rooms
halls and galleries, two cisterne, stables, etc
on San Pedro avenue. Great barguin.
Eight room. hard rock house and two room
soft rock, fronting on Market and Presa streets
ment.
ia acre farm, within two hours rid. of the
city. river front, six room house ceiled through
out % acres cleared and fenced, orchard az
hye acres. good well and cstrrn. Price SenGO
SIX nice cottages IN Ward 4, prize" a. abi b.
$AuW paying IL to 20 per cent rental
Improved farms, dair' farms, ranch proper-
Texas and Mexico. "
House OF rooms, galleries otc, with 4 lnts.
NO. LILO West Houston street.
Two large lots corner OF soledad and Rodri-
CUES streets.
Two nice cottages, 3 ROOMS each, on Fannin
street.
Nice cottage of 3 rooms on AvcnueD.
cottage OF rooms, galleries, stable etc
3cottages on Avenue II.
Sl4 acres In Karnes county, on Hondo creek
fenced. 100 acres cleared and 81 In cultivation
l5 miles South Of Helena and miles from
Daileyville. Fine improvements, well erased
ana tilnbered. Apply TO j. w. BRADLEY,
ll-Su 42 Houston street
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Henry Semlinger, NJ. Gallardo and
Felix Luera, drunk, So; Charles Kunch-
man, obstructing street, So; Neuwald,
insulting and abusive language, s.; d. C.
Anderson, George Mccormick and Ed
Stevens, continued; Mayler, striking a
boy, 50; w. N. Munroe and DR.. S. Il.
Lowery, depositing trash and filth in
alley, dismissed; alias warrant ordered
for l.. Clements.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Justice Anton Adam was called upon
last night to discharge very pleasant
duty. Miss Emile Zoll, a blooming
young girl, came all the way from New
York to meet her lover Rudolph Hacken-
berger, a jeweler here. The meeting Of
course was happy one, and last night
their love was consummated in happy
wedlock. The ceremony was performed
at the residence of f. Wehrlein, and
numerous congratulations were extended
the couple.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

We are indebted to Mr.. Frank A.
Hall, Director of the Eighth Cavalry
band, for the following programme for
the concert at Travis park this afternoon
at 4 o'clock:
/. March, Eureka" Graffula.
2. Grand Fantasia, introducing gems
from the old operas, by L. Boyer.
3. Waltz, son the Beautiful Blue
Danube" by J.Struss. (By request.)
4. Overture, "Banditenstreiche, !" Franz
Won Suppe.
.. Ballad, "The Irish Exile's Lament"
X. Albert.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

stevens & Russ Geo. ". Russ g. Co.
Fire. life and accident insurance. 2-2l-3Ot
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Trips kemendo, Wholesale fruitcrers, pro-
duce dealers and candy manufacturers are
opening branch OF their mammoth Waco es-
adjustment n No sl2 East Houston street.
arc deserving, enterprising business mon
Ihey are exclusive Wholesale dealers, and
supply tho trade at cheap rates. Call and in
spect their new stock. s-io Al
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Jennie Scott Wilson, the little eight
year old exponentofthe art Of elocution,
will give a free entertainment at the
Turner hall tonight. PERFORMANCES
are interesting, and for one so young
wonderful.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

A son of Mr.. Rose, the timer, residing
next to the Houston street bridge, be-
came the owner Of two fine mules n
short time since, for which he had re-
peatedly been offered the sum of $3.50.
Last night some malicious person cut
the ropes and levanted with the mules.
No trace of them has as yet been dis
covered.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

r. b. and E. G. Wilborn, to Dolores
Sanches de Montoya, one acre out Of
original city lot No. 1sS. S225.
R.Vanden Burg to II. c. and j. A.
Overaker lot No. Is, range No. 8, in Dis
trict No. l, 5000.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

CITY CoLLECroR's OFFICE, March 10. 1884,.
All parties entitled to water for irrigation
purposes are hereby notified to come forward
and nay their water tax forthwith.
3.l9Gt +. G. HAuEIsEN.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19
REMOVAL , "' FAMOUS.

Our kind patrons and the public in
general will please take notice that we
have removed our store (The Famous)
from No. 3 Commerce street to No. 23s
Commerce street, next door to A. b.
Frank & Co. Besides our former
stock we can now offer for sale new
line of goods, which we, in our new
stand offer at surprisingly low prices.
Come one, come: all, and be convinced.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

-Macreme cord and a full stock o.
fancy goods for fancy work of all style al
S. MaYer's. 3-l3-Gt
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

strayed or stolen, one bay horse, about IA
hands high, branded on left shoulder i PI. Tho
T. and L. connected. One sorrel horse about
io,s hands high. branded Il on left shoulder.
reward paid on bringing above to f.. GarcOD-
net, In care Tests store, South Flores street
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

This morning Mrs. NJ. A. Murphy sold
out her interest in J. Scott & Co., book
sellers, for the sum of $500, to the re-
naming partners, T. J. and +. j. Scott.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Madame singh tho greatest living clairvo-
yant, is now stopping at the Menper hotel,
room l0S, where she can be consulted on bust
ness losses, enemies, law suits absent friends.
love. marriage and death. Pay refused II not
q ttiea1. a-Il-Ht
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Charles Lawrence, aged months,
died on the 18th, Third ward.
Sarah L. Pratt, aged 20 years, died on
the 18th, OF pulmonary consumption,
Second ward.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

THC' IITV uTu uccfueuC ffibuTUHCts ---I-JOC
Macreme Cord.
Full line at Frank Olsmth & Co.'S No. $40
Commerce street lg-lm
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

] offer for sale my Morgan mare 'Doilio''-
gentle, stylish and fast, tve years Old. 10 hands
high. splendid roadster In harness or sad
die. Can be seen at Dunn Il Smiths livery
stable. DAVE nunNs
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

The partnership OF Staticl s. VoRe has been
dissolved, and the undersigned will carry IN
the business IN his own name.
EuGEN STAFFEL.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Thinking INV friends and the public for
many faNurs shown the firm, | now respect
FUZZY solicit a continuance oi their esteemed
patronage. l3-li.6,l EuGEN SrAfFEL.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Headquarters for ladies' and chill
uren's underwear in all grades and at
the lowest prices at s. Mayors.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Periodicals, InaRazines, newspapers and all
Kinds nf novelties, can he fnnnd at q, w.
Baldwin Co.'s, III Commerce etroef. l-2I.tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

neatly furnished cottage suitable for gem
tlemls. md wife, opposite High school. Hy-
drant water. Rent low. 3-l9-9t
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

am prepared 10 do. in flrst-cass manner, all
kinds OF carriage work, trimming, painting and
wood work | also make n speciality OF horse
shoeing. MICHAEL PIGoTT,
1-7-3m Soledad street. cor. Houston.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

Co to Hildeshclmer & Walkers, on Soledad
street. for the best eiman hay, ut retail or
by car lots 3-5-Im
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19

For the prettiest novelties in the line
OF neckwear for ladies and children 90
to $. Mayors. 3-l3-Gf