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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

The Critic goes at length to show that
Corpus Christi possesses a great many
advantages as a summer resort, and
urges upon the people ofthe cityto make
an effort to encourage and accommo-
date the visitors who come. The only
need of Corpus just now is good and
sufficient hotel accommodation TO make
1t one of the most pleasant OF the gulf
coast cities.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

TR Victoria Advocate makes n wager
of "a COW ranch to ginger cake that
Blaine don't win the nomination, and II
is dollars to nickles that he couldn't be
elected II he did,
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

=="RAREIY has greater injustice been
done any one" says the Longview Dem
ocrat, "than to connect the name of Ben
Butler and Judge Reagan on the same
Presidential ticket.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

Our original invoices are open for in
spection, and we offer our entire stock
OF gents furnishing goods and clothing
at cost las we will dissolve our co-partner-
ship In about GO days.
5-G-Im SHEETS, CoRREvoN & CASTLES.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

One hundred dollars will be paid
for the arrest and conviction ofeach and
every person implicated in cutting our
pasture fence, five miles northwest OF
San Antonio. HoRD Il DIGNowITY.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07
ADVERTISING RATES
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THOMAS ~. JOHNSON,
business Manager.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

Has opened at 1853 Commerce street, next
door TO the National bank, with a full
line Of dry goods, notions, gents furnish
ing goods, boots and shoes, which ne IN
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07
"Wednesday. May 7. 1884,

TnE decrease of the public debt dur
ing the month of April was 81, 232,Os5,
and since June 30, 1883, II has been ST,-
OGO.173.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

That the san Pedro springs Is the most inter
estinR and attractive resort In Texas, and that
refreshments Of all kinds. both liquid and
solid, are supplied at all hours l-la-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

Large stock of ready made suits just
received by j. Joske II Sons, ana the
prices are lower than ever before.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

When you can rent new square and up
right pianos cheap, Of Thomas 6oggan
q Rios l-lg-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

free people. Let us have a man who
win stand up to the llck-log and contend
for his riphtsm
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07
THOMAS ~. JOHNSON,
business Manager.

Entered at postofice at Son Antonu, Irsas
second class matter.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

CRAsFALI, the vigorous editor of the
Gainesville Advance, gives his opinion of
the man who allowed Mr.. Hayes to draw
his 4. salary, In the following; sits
enough to make man sick at his poll
teal stomach to see newspaper advo-
eating Tilden for the Presidency, A man
who was once elected to the highest
office In the gift of the American people,
and who, through oowardly or meroen-
AIRY motives, allowed himselfto be beaten
out Of II, is not entitled to the suffrage of
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

THE Cleburne Chronicle says: Arthur
having been made the only really unex-
ceptional and clean President the conn
try has had since the war, the Republic
can party has determined upon his
retirement. He is too good for the
crowd he is in" 1t is not so certain
about Mr.. Arthur's retirement. lie has
already more than third of all the dele
gates elected, and a majority over any
other candidate; the fact is the further
the campaign progresses the stronger
Mr.. Arthur grows.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

IL An article on the hlRnluchnct VI ihe
Cotton Exposition, the Washington Re-
publican says; "The absolute benefits
of the Philadelphia Centennial celebra-
ton TO the commerce and industry Of
the nation are beyond calculation. II
stimulated every branch OF human EN-
ployment and gave an impetus to our
export traffic that no other effort could
have impaired. 1t Is now proposed TO
celebrate at New Orleans the one hun
dredth anniversary OF the first shipment
of cotton from United States port. To
cotton we owe primarily the wide com
mercial distinction we have acquired
throughout the world. In 1874 Eng
lands trade In cotton was II 10000
pounds consumed and manufactured.
The production of cotton In the United
States in that year was merely expert
mental, and few bags were shipped
for the first time to England. In l1Ol
South Carolina produced 100000 pounds
and Georgia 1,OOO,OOO pounds. In 100
the first cotton factory in the United
States was built in Rhode Island, and
worked by water power attached to
mule spinning. The production of the
world in cotton was then only 400, 2jO,OW
pounds, produced as follows:
India ...................... l3O,OO,OOO
Other parts of Asia ............lG 0,WO,OW
Central and South America..... GS,OOO,OOO
Africa. Observation-Disclosures. ...... l6,OD,OOO
Brazil 22,0O0,0W
-
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07
POISON

In the blood is apt to show itself In the Spring,
and nature should by NIL means be assisted In
throwing Il on Swifts Specific does this efec
lively. II isapuroly vegetable, non poisonous
remedy, which helps nature 10 force all the
skin.
Mr.. Robert A. Easley. OF Dickson, Tenn,
writes, under date of March 10, 1884 =" had
chlls and fever, followed by rheumatism, for
three ears, so that was not able to attend TO
my business; had tried almost every kind OF
medicine, and found no relief. A friend re-
commended Swift's Specific. tried one bottle
aud my health began TO Improve. continued
until had taken ak bottles and II has set mo
On my feet as sound and well as ever. l recon-
mend II TO all similarly afflicted"
Letters from twenty-three CD OF the leading
retail druggists OF Atlanta cay, under date OF
March "a, 1884: I'VE sell more of Swift's
Specific than any other one remedy, and three
to 10 times at much as any other medicine
We sell II to all classes, and many of the best
families use II as n general health tonic"
Our Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free TO applicants.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co.,
Drawer ., Atlanta
New York Office. 159 West 23d street, between
9th and 9TH avenues.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-05-07

The best smoking tobacco is "Little
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
King Thebau,s Predecessor.

The frat introduction l ever had to
a white elephant was apropos OF my
audience with the King OF Ava, at
Mahdalay, his capital, daring my
travels through Burmah. King
MounSlon, the father OF Thebau, the
present potentate, was then upon the
Burmese throne. Toe audience
chamber WAS arranged somewhat
thestrically. A green baize curtain
descended from ceiling to floor. a
few feet above the floor this curtain
presented proscenium like opening
ten feet square. which brought into
view a luxurious Above. Within this
alcoye bis majesty was seated upon
the hoor, resting against a VeiVsI
cushion, with q cup, bslel0ox' a
oarafe. a golden cuspidor, and pair
of silver. mounted bino 'ulsrs Within
reach. He was short, stout. tlisy- nVe,
and pleasant, though craity-looklng.
lie was dressed in a white linen Jacket
| and a silk cloth around the legs and
hips. After staring at me shocking
| long wnile through his binoculars, ne
became interes ed, to an unseemly
extent, in my sge, my fathers busis
ness, my design in travelling, ana
other personal matters. First ne
made up his mind that | was q down
right spy. Then he concluded that l
was q political adventurer. Finally
it slowly dawned upon him az
was travelling simply for pleasure
and perhaps it was with the beneVo'
lent desire OF enhancing that pleasure
TO the utmost that he offered me an
! unlimited number Of wives Il did no
INQUIRE whose) on condition that
would permanently settle there
Happily the puritanical principles II
which I had been educated enabled
+. me to W thstand the shock st
Anthony could not have behaved
better in the circumstances than L OH
4 and besides 81. Anthony's .empss
tons merely existed in the abstract
while mine were almost within grasp
T Perhaps ought 10 add that | did nc
I .eel like entering the kings servic
lust at that time. While refusing al
o his kind offers. through an interprete
3 and His Majesty offered me palaq
: aud title, as we'll as fortuoe,in &C
) dition 10 a harem practically inhnlt
J, i succeeded in modifying him Wit
9 the present of a handsome magnit!
. ing glass which [ had taken with N
from Calcutta for the express purpos'
q This glass had bright guilt rim, az
q an ivory handle. Though it passe
q into the kings hands there and the
9 I have ever since seen through
,. everything that's good in Burmah.'
d Frank Vincent. Jr. in The Mania
tan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
L1rTELL's LIVING Age.

The numbers for The Living Age
for July 26 b and August 2rd, con-
tain With Baker and Graham in the
Eastern Sudan, and The Federal
States of the World, Nineteenth
Century; Sophocles, and Princess
Alice, Fortnightly; The Proto' Hell
vetians, Contemporary; The I'm
lucky Duckdom of Albany, White
hall Review; Words worth's Rela>
tons to Science, Macmillan; Madame
de Kruedener, and Wallenstien,
Gentleman's; Tame Snakes, Cas-
sells; Texas as a Career, POpulsr
Cookery, and Prayers ior the Dead
Spectator; Pathology in History.
Alienist aud Neurologist; The Elk.
tinct Lakes Of the Great Basin, and
Habits OF Burrowing Ciayfishes
Nature; Algernon Sydney, and The
Prince Of Orange, Saturday Review
with instalments of Beauty and the
Beast, This Baby's Grandmother, ths
conclusion OF Msgda's COWS, anc
poetry.
Littell & Co Boston, are the pub
lishels.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
The MaynoWer Still Making VOy
ages.

The Mayfower is sailing still be-
tween the old world and the new.
Every. day it brings new settlers. if
not to our material helb3rs-to cur
Boston Bay, our Castle Garden. our
Golden Gate : at any rate, to our
mental ports and Whsrves. We can
cot take up a European newspaper
without finding an American idea in
it. 1t is said that great many OF
our countrymen take the steamer tn
England every GUNNER. But they
come back again and they bring with
them many who come to stay. l dc
not refer specially to the occupants OIL
the steera2e-the literal emigrants
One cannot say much about them
they may be Americans or not, as j
turns out. But England and the con-
tinent are full OF Americans who were
born there. Sometimes they arr
better Americans than the New
Yorker or Bostonian who lives il
Beacon Street or the Bowery snt
votes in the eleoti ns. They may b
born and reside where they please
but they belong to Us, and in tn
better sense, they are among US
Broadway and Washington Street
Vermont an6 Colorado extend a
| over Europe. Russia ie covered Wit
them; che tries to shove them ava
10 Siberia, but in vain. We ca
mountains and prairies solid faots;b
the geography of TIE mind is indnit
| " more stubborn. l dare say thel
are 8 gieat many oblique.eyed, pi
tailed New Enelanders in the Oele
tial Empire. They nay never ha'
visited these shores, or even heard
: them, but what of that? They thir
+ our thought--they have apprehend'
our idea, and by and by. they or the
: heirs will cause it to PREVAIL Julis
Z Hawthorne, in The Manhattan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
Mrs. DR.. Walton'S Periodical
Tea.

Mother Walton has prescribed
this valuable medicine for great
mspy years in her private practice.
II was proved an unfailing specific
in the treatment of the many dis
orders to which the female constitu.
tion Ia subject. 1t is cure for the
monthly troubles that go many
women suffer. Mailed on receipt OF
price, soc.
Frazier MEDICINE Co., Props,
cleveland, Ohio.
SARATOGA HIGH Rock SPRING
WATER for sale by all druggists. 2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CoNvE!
TON.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10

di.oinline through which she has
passed, If that be necessary =. TO ), give 9Se
b birth to so sweet q soul, than the
cold, dead arrogance OF he pc .s wRosT
birth OF spirit must be IN an3 9 .ea
life, if ever, since she has ., nVe Sa 700
long for . i'change Of heart mere.
BEAUTY Of charaOlell How lew are
striving ar% to attain it! Fewer, even
than they who are asking ior in.sl'
iectual development. Courage, hig9
mindedness, guilelessneas, true kina-
ness! How rare are tbeyl-l Letter IN
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
No Stable or Household is complats
without
NUNN's BLACK OIL.
TESTIMONIALS.
SALT LAKE CRY, May. 1884

SALT LAKE CITY, May, Ioo4
DR.. C. ". Mann.
Dear Sir:-It gives us pleasure to add
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NY wife, after suffering two months
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Your we'll Wishe.s,
ALBERT OARRIEaToS,
RHoDA CARRINGToN.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10

rs RECOMMENDED 81 ALI Pay
| SLAMS as Blood Purifying L'quof
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SEABURY s. CO., Salt Lsks, Sole
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10

I havs over 100 such testimonials,
which will soon accompany each bottle
parties we'll known. No Phantom les
timony. In order to place this inVslu,,
able medicine upon the market, and
within the reach Of all who suffer, any 2,
gentleman Of means can take one nan
interest, which discounts the best g 1i1s
in Utah. This Medicine is the best fIie
Medicine and Liver Regulator and nearer
Of sores in the world.
Sold Wholesale and Retail
Ask your druggist for them, II sns'
have none send to my address.
VETERINARY PHARMAO1r
II w, Kimball Block Jr.,
iy1s sAlsLsks O'"'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
SALT LAKE CITY,
DR.. @. ". Mann.


DR.. @. ". Mann.
Dear DoctoT:-For years 1 have suf.
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everything reco0 mended with o MY tenn
porary relief until tried your Black Oh
Csuslic Balsam, internal and exlernsl.
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you. go ct once to DR.. NUNS Veterin>
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You reed not suffer long, and you will
feel like blessing the proprietor OF such
medicine
Eye,lsstingly yours,
JESSIE MAYNEs,
Rock and Bricklsyer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10

Having decided to close out an assortment OF
HIT Weather CIothng for Ladies' and Mems Wear'
Rarpain time has now arrived. See the prices Oh
Mems Straw Hats, Mems Summer Coats In plotl,
Linen, and Alpaca; also Lace Shawls, Linen anu
Grass Cloth Suits, all been reduced rom ~ 10 o.
Der cent, and will be sold to make room' as g0ous
are being purchased in thu Eastern Markets ioA
Fall and Winter Stock.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
LITERATURE.
Regular Review of Recent
Publications.
FRANK LEsLIE'ssUNDAYM MAGAZINE

FRANK LEsLIE'ssUNDAY MAGAZINE.
The September number Is, as
usual, filed with good things. The
contentC are highly interesting,
edifying and entertaining, and Inc
Illustrations are numerous and
handsomely executed. Religious
Associations of Edinburgh. Sketches
Of Germantown. Pa, The Kingdom
of Rohmania, etc., are most inter-
esting articles and profusely illus
tra.ed. Wall Street Destinations, lie
by the editor, I. Ds Witt Fslmage,
D. D., who has also a sermon IN the
Home Pulpit, E ,ther the Medlatrlx.
The new serials, How it all Came
Round and Clara Linton's Friend,
are continued, with sketches,
essays, etc, by favorite authors. The
poems are by Dean Plumtre (beauti.
fully illustra ed) and others, and
besides the Editorial Comments,
Religious Notes and News, Person
al Notes, Obituaries, etc., there 10 q
large m scellany affording delightful
reading.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, Publisher, So
IS, and 81 PARK Place, New York.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CoNyEN-
TON.
Rand. Men ally s. Co., of Chicago
are publishing en- official Report o
the Proceedings of the Republican
Ma ional Convention, held II
Chicago, Ill, Tuesday, Wednesday
| Fhursday and Friday, j lne 3rd Attn
5th and 9Th, 1884. 1t will be tn.
only tfficial report published. 1t viii
contain every speech delivered II
the Convention, every resolution
every motion, every ballot In detail
as taken each day, and change
made therein. Every. vote, ever
word spoken, and every rule Of tn
chairmen will be recorded. 9Th
names and post Office address of tn
delega es and slternates will .
given. It will be an Svo. Of ~
pages, We understand that only
| limited plumber of the Reports vii
be published. For Sale at 81 70 eac
in cloth, and S1.00 each in paper.
Address, Rand. McNally & G.
Chicago.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1884-05-02
r. WELLER.
SUCCESSOR To
MUNRO & WELLER.

owing purchased the interest
no. A. Munro in the above
Red firm, I take pleasure in
pklng my friends for their past
(onage, and cordially invite
b and the public as we'll to call
pc old stand
Pse application to business and business
(ples, and to meet the wants of my pa
+ shall be my utmost interest and en-
br.
Respectfully,
r. WELLER, M. II.
The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1884-05-02
UncallSd for Letters.

List of letters remaining nncailed
for at the Big stone City postoiiict
Nav lst, 1854:
Rannediet John Peatty. Pauline
carnwrght. Levi Carlson. Gust u
Fairport. john Hanson Louis
Ranslyrd. Sophia L. shuiz. Michael
stafford Mrs. NJ. WEIGH Mary A (2l
Dated, at Big Stone City, OAK, May lst, 1884
Please say advertised when call.
ing for the above.
WM. II. MOyIts, l.. NJ.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-10
The American mission Board.

COLUMBUS, Oct. 9-The third days session of
the American Board of Commissioners for For
eign Missions was opened with prayer by Rev.
DR.. F. Bascomb, of Illinois. Vice-president E.
w. Blatchford, occupied the chair.
Reports, by chairman, of the various commit
tees were presented as follows: Rev. Moses
Smith, on the European Turkey mission; Presi-
dent j. B. Angel, Western Turkey mission;
President Fl. o. Butterfeld, D. D., Zulu and
Eastcentral African mission; Rev. w. II. Eus-
tice, d. D., Maratta mission Rev. Q. L. Hamlin,
Austrian mission
In the afternoon at the sacrament of the
Lords Supper nearly 1000 communicates par
ticipated, Revs. L. Buckingham and j. K. Greene
officiating.
At the business meeting of the board J. w.
Scouville, of Chicago, chairman of the committee
on nomination of new members, reported the
resignation Of Rev. John o. Fosk, D. D., of
Maine; Rev. W. w. Scudder, D. D., of Connect
icut, and Rev. L. T. Chamberin, D. D.. of New
York. The following persons were nominated
and elected new members; Rev. James Brand,
of Ohio; William E. Hale, of Illinois, ex-Gov-
ernor w. W. Hopper. of Rhode Island: Rev.
James W. Cooper of Connecticut: Rev. William
z. Fisher of Maine; James p Wallace, of New
York; Hon. William E. Hale and Rev. Charles
F. Thwing. of Massachusetts.
The old board of officers were reelected, with
the addition of Judson Smith, d. D., to the
corresponding secretaries and Hon. VIM. p.
Ellison and Rev. Charles f. ThwlnS to the
presidential committee
The board received and accepted an invitation
of forty churches in Boston and vicinity to meet
next year in that city. This venerable society
is now completing the seventy-ffth year of its
existence.
The board, on recommendation OF the commit
tee on home department, voted to instruct the
presidential committee to expend the legacy of
$3.50, 900, from the Samuel w. Sweet estate, dur
ing series of years on special objects connected
with the educational and evangelstic work of
the mission
Hon. Philo Parsons, from the committee on
treasurers report expressed satisfaction at the
thorough business-like fidelity with which the
funds are managed, and of the gratifying fact
that of the nearly $40, coo intrusted to its
care, not one dollar has ever been lost through
any defect in management
At the meeting this evening. addresses r5ere
made by President Mark hopklns, kev. Drs. E.
p Goodwin, H. NJ. Scudder and Schauffler. An
overflow meeting was held at the First Presby-
terrain Church, led by DR.. Withrow and one in
another church. IN which addresses were made
in the Welch language
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-10
Missionary Meetings at Mattoon.

Correspondence of the Indianapo is Journal.
NATION, Oct. 9-Over fifty ladies from
abroad have been in this city yesterday and to-
day, attending the annual meeting of the
Woman's Foreign and Home Missionary Socie-
ties. The presbytery includes sixteen divisions,
fourteen of which are represented Reports
given from auxiliares and other societies, from
the treasurer and corresponding secretary
showed an increase of 18 per cent. in contribu-
tons to mission work There were many able
papers read and discourses delivered, at this
meeting, to all of which large audiences gave
close and interested attention. The meeting
cessful in point of numbers and enthusiasm.