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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
In Prison for Life.

The Burkhart murder trial was con-
oluded at late hour last night, 1t being
past O'Clock before they rendered their
verdict, which was that Burkhart was
guilty OF murder In the first degree and
that he should suffer imprisonment for
the remainder OF his natural life. Burk-
hart was visibly affected on hearing the
sentence. The court room was crowded
and opinions as to the severity Of the
sentence were varied.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

The meeting of Endowment Rank,
G32, Knights OF Pythias, are notified to
attend special meeting at the Castle,
Sunday morning, May II, at 1880 O'Clock,
for the purpose of acting on new mem
berships. All applicants are requested
TO be on hand not later than ii o'clock.
BENZ. GoLDENBURG,
+. b. JOHNSON, President.
Secretary and Treasurer. 5-l2-5t
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
New Coloped Minstrels.

The Eclipse Minstrels, composed en-
tirely of colOred members, have been
organized in this city, with the follow
ing members; Mr.. Bradley, manager; L..
Casaway, Charles Casaway, G. Ham
mond, George Howard, j. w. Bryan,
William Warren and Wash Collins.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
Vicious Dog.


Communicated.
A vicious dog attacked Mrs. George
Braden on the rock quarry road belong
ing to Mr.. Thalgreen or his driver. She
received no personal injury except Sc
we're fright and that her garments were
badly tore. Parties owning the dog
should keep him at home.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
Methodist Church.

The members of Paine Methodist
church will give u festival at No. 4Oi
East Houston street, corner Loysoyo,
Thursday. Lunch will be served at
II O'Clock u. M, and supper at s O'Clock
p. m. A cordial invitation to the public
extended. 5-f2-2t
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

will negotiate loans and discount,
buy and sell upon orders, business paper
OF all sorts, domestic and foreign ex-
change, county bonds, warrants, State
bonds. etc. ANsoS A. MAHE2,
No. 2i5 Commerce street.
Refer by permission to
O'CoNNoR Il SULLIVAN, Bankers. 1m
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

22G, 22S and $50 Market street, San An
tonic, Texas, hardware, paint and seed
merchants. Headquarters for ID. Lam
dreths & Sons garden and flower seeds.
Have just received one carload OF Brin-
ley's Universal double-shovel plows,
iron-beam double shovels, Dixon and
solid sweeps, cotton scrnpers, oultiva-
tors, etc. Planet, Jr., hollow steel stand
ard horse hoe and cultivator combined.
rison Bros. Il Co.'s ready-mixed paints.
dry-siZed kalsomined colors, etc.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
23s West Commerce St
?. Pasche,

Who is an old citizen of San Antonio
and well known as a flrst-elass house
and sign painter, has opened paint
shop at corner Avenue f and Houston
street, and will, in the future, make fine
carriage painting specially. VIII buy
and sell and renovate old carriages and
buggies. 2-5-Gm
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

On account of dissolution, we offer our
entire stock Of general herdware, stoves,
agricultural implements. iron and wagon
material at and below cost, and invite
the public in general to call upon us be-
fore purchasing elsewhere.
TIrs & PELTZER.
5-l2-tf No. 10 Military Plaza.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
- No Bottom I"

Is what the man with the sounding lead
called out yesterday as he heaved the
line off wagon going through the
quagmire on Macon street east OF San
Pedro avenue. And 1t is not the only
bottomless mud hole in the CITY,
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

Parties desiring bargains In frontier
lands, ranches, and very choice pieces
OF property In the central portion Of the
city, will please call and see
3-20-3m NARcIso LEAI.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
NEW YORK EUROPE

The Mallory s. s. Line offers to the travelling
public the cheapest and most delightful sum
mer route to New York In their fast and pow
erful iron steamers, having cabin and Storage
accommodations unsurpassed by any line
ailoat, sailing from Galveston every Wednes-
day, arriving In New York the following Tues
day.
EUROPEAN TRAVELLERS
will flnd this the cheapest and most desirable
route, making close connection In New York
with all the Transatlantic lines. Passengers
hooked through tn and from all points in
Europe Mt reduced rates. For tickets, sailings.
plans OF all steamships reservation OF rooms
aud correct Information In detail, apply 10
w. ]. YOUNG,
General Agent Mallory Line and Agent for all
TRANSATLANTIC Limos. IL West Commerce ST.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

II so, go directly to Pitt Il Meek's
for green or roasted coffee, and the very
finest Moyune teas. 5-2-10t.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

MEXICAN STORE.
Fine Groceries, Cigars and To-
bacco, Wholesale and Retail.

Just opened, enc store, direct from Mexico
on East Houston street, No. 400. NJ which
The stock consists OF chill, Chilicepoan-
polonoilio, chocolate crookery, Mexican straw
and fancy wool hats OrnamcEted with gold and
silver. Curiosities II specially In all kinds Of
HUMBERTO de y ROssI
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

Mrs. G. Morsl, French dressmaker, has
removed TO IL North street, near Alamo,
where she will be pleased TO serve all
her customers. 5-l2-l IN
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

Stone house, ten rooms, newly papered
and yainted, on Quinta street, half block
from Main plaza. Apply TO DIR. or Mrs.
Bowen. myl-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
Copcart


At the Vienna Garden to morrow
night
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12
CHEAP COLUMN.


nfFlcEs FOR RENT-Uver Rouvnnt's jcwelry
" store, "a Commerce street. Apply to l..
ROUNANr. 6-5-Gt
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

BY a selected string band. at the Vienna
Garden tomorrow night.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

\lTANTED-A white SRI 90 nurse. Apply ut
w Ms. Dca,on's boarding house, 30 East
Houston street 5-I.-it
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

2-2i-3rn
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

NtIkhTEO An expei onHed white cook. APP
w ply, with reference, 20 Not Government
IA A.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-12

5-l2.tf
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
Costly Furs.

"The fur of the Shetland seal is the
most valuable known to the trade" said
a fur dealer. "This seal is Indigenous
to the South seas, is very rare, not more
than 200 being captured each year. 1t
has gloss peculiarly its own: and the
delicacy of it's fiber surpasses anything
in the fur line"
What is the relative value of furs
compared with few years ago?'
"The increase in price has been re.
markable. The promoters of the fashion
of wearing furs little deemed how ex-
tensive the fashion was destined to be-
come. The advance in price has been
from Is to 80 per cent, according to the
nature and quality of the SKINS"
"Where do you obtain your furs?"
"Largely from London. The Hudson
Bay Company has an almost exclusive
monopoly of the business. They catch
most of their fur bearing animals in
January and FEBRUARY, and the skins do
not reach London until the following
December. The great London fur sales
occur in January, March and June, the
large American houses, through their
foreign representatives, securing their
stock at those sales At the last London
sales the price increased 80 per cent. for
beavers, the advance being somewhat
unexampled in the history of the trade" I"
"Do the fur-bearing countries show
any diminution in the yield since the
fashion of wearing furs has become so
general?"
"No, indeed. &. - seems in
exhaustible, and W. ,lbil1ties of ex-
termination are yef hremote.n
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
SUMMARY OP NEWS OF The WEEK.
General Hazsn 10 be nonrt nr.r<

General Ha.sn 10 bs Court ,r.rti.a,d.. :
:: The preeidept has ordered general court
MARTIAL to convene in this city on the 11thinst,
for The trial of Brig Gen. w. B. Hazen chief sig
nal officer Of tho army, on the charges of conduct
prejudieal to good order and military dis
cipline, in having officially and publicly crit
icised the action of the secretary of war for
not following his recommendation to send an
expedition to the relief of Lieut. Greedy, in
the court:
Maj. Gen. Hancock, Maj. Gen. schofeld,
Brig Gen. Howard, Brig Gen. Terry, Brig
Gen. Augu, Brig Gen. MacFeely, Brig Con.
Holabird, Brig. Gen. Murray, Brig Gen. New
ton, Col. Andrews, Twenty fifth infantry; Col
Merritt Fifth cavalry; Col Block, Twenty
third infantry, with Capt J. W. Claus, Twen-
ty-fourth infantry, judge advocate
Orders wero also issued for the suspension
Of Gen. Hazen and for him to consider himself
in arrest until further orders. Capt Mills, OF
the signal SERVICE has been ordered to duty as
acting chief signal officer pending the result
of the trial Of Gen. Hazen. It is understood
that the action of the president in this case was
precipitated by an interview with Gen. Hazen,
published recently, in which Gen. Hazen il
represented as placing on the secretary of war
the responsibility for the loss of so many NOM
bers OF tho Greedy party.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
through q 1oop~hole and literally
tronoEvo5.&

through a 1oop~hole and literally
transfxed it," I,
"Oh, you heartless things" sobbed
the bride, while the mother on the back
seat hugged her treasure eonvulsivelE-
and burst into tears.
1--WE had lost private and two others
badly wounded, went on the old soldier,
softly, "but can tell you we all felt
like murderers as we stood with our
hats off in that little room, and a tear
stole down over more than one powder
grimed cheek as the old general leaned
over and gently opened the little bum
dle."
"And was it quite dead?" asked
mining man, who was pretending not to
cry.
'Quite dead-quite dead. But you
see it wasn't a baby at all but the kitten
the little emigrant girl had forgotten"
concluded the major. ''That's all, I be-
lieve, and-ahem, / think, daughter, I'll
get out and walk to the top of this hill"
And then the major got out, followed
by some lndistinct remark referring to
his eyes on the part Of the driver that
seemed to be fully concurred in by the
| rest of the passengers.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
lINCOLN's LEVEL HEAD.
A Marked Characteristic Of the People's q
President.

A Marked Characteristic OF the Peoples
President.
Arnold Life of Lincoln.
The most marked characteristic of Mr.. Lin
coin was fhis perfect sanity From the mo-
ment, that he took the reins of government-or
as Mr. Lowell had :said, of chaos-up to the
hour of his assassination, he was, humanly
speaking, guilty of no folly. He recognized
from the first. the absolute necessity of win
ming the loyal portion of the Democracy to the
support of his war measures, and he turned a
deaf ear to the clamor of the extremists o. his
own party, who could see in his prachce SDf
the virtue of expediency only the lukewarni-
ness. Toward the two parties his at attitude was
toward the Huguenots and OatholicA As
the Protestant King thought France we'll
worth mass, so Lincoln Thought the Union
well worth slavery .'sIf there be those, he
wrote to Horace Greeley in August, l662, tswho
would not save the Union unleSs Trey could at
the same time slavery, 20 nok agree with
them If there be those who N0uld mot save
destroy slavery, I do aoT Tasres With them
Ny paramount objectiatd lys II Union. and
These % % words are not n leader Of
party but of leader " Z QPle; and that as
such he is to be- kDfwni history, the signs
already begin toapp6 2 recent number
Of 's the n Ninetesata - 4r V sI9 W%: Henry e ny
labor confroat;nel 81 arst Republican Presi-
dent, saye: t4Te NJ colossal task Mr.. Lincoln
brought, al Iihlk The most impartial critics
of his a1iI lstra min my own party now
admit, Sns ~ IS md remarkable gifts o.
charactk aud mind ''-...T=.=s: e - = !,
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
MARx.
Can I forget tho happy night,

Can forget the happy night,
In that December weather ,.
When shs andsI, with footsteps light.
Walked home from church together?
My heart was rent 'twixt joy and fear,
And she wascoy and schary, ". + Z.
For atNhich maidensflove to hear
I'd whispered in her tiny eai; .s u
While walking home with Mary.
All that WAS in the long ago,
But somehow it seems nearer,
And those dear days We used U know,
Seems always, somehow, dearer
When Mary fingers by my side
As coy and swoetly chary
AS whom, in that Decomber tide,
I wooed and won my little bride,
While walking home with Mary.
God bless the, Mary, for the peace
That cometh with this seeming,
And grant ne'er shall know surcease
From this delightful dreaming,
For IN mine age you are to me-
Though all the world may vary
The same sweet girl you used to DO
And to = land my faith can see, q /
Pm walking home with Mary. 49,.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
Senator Anthony and Calhoun.

Mr.. Webster, when he pronounced
his eulogium in the Senate on John G.
Calhoun, said. half wonderingly and
half admiringly, "he had no recreat:a
never seemed to feel the necesssiHfron
amusement" So it was with Cover, % o1
Anthony, says the Washington co.,
pondent of the providence JourR
He never, while here as a Senate
went on fishing or shooting parties; b,
never kept or drove fast horses, or 81
tended the Jockey Club races and al
though he was a member of the Metro
politan Club, he was never to be seen
at its card tables or in it's billiard room
or bowling alley. Occasionally he would,
while waiting to go out to dine, take a
pack of cards and occupy a few leisure
moments in game of solitaire, but ]
don't believe he understood the first
principles of poker" or "euk ker, those
fayorite games Of many Congressman
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12

A current compilation of railroad
statistics shows that for the ten months
of this year ending Both ult., railroad
construction reached 1888 miles of
track as compared with 4, 244 miles for
the corresponding period of 1883, and
8,O75 miles in 1882. That IS, construc-
ton fell off nearly one-half last year,
and four r-sevenths more this year. This
is reduction with vengeance, and rep
resents loss of business that may be
estimated at two hundred millions of
dollars. We were building railroads
altogether too fast in this country, so
the croakers and pessimists insisted ;
exhausting our capital and running our
industries. It has, therefore, been alb
solutely necessary that capital should
lie idle, or draw one per cent. to half
per cent. interest; that the iron and
coal trades should rule stagnant month
after month with profits cut to the bone
and losses multiplying more and more;
that the workingmen, ready and anxious
to make living, should be turned of
to starve or painfully kept along on
half wages; that merchants should =ex-
Coul CToOlIS uIltl 'tlIc11 oWu CIeuA1 1aAAcu
and then lose their trade, and that all
the vast network of industrial and COM
mercial activities depending on rail
roads should he held in susp. nse until
they almost perish. This may be all
necessary and sound economy, but it is
a mortal hard way to be economical.
It looks. as though the logic Of. the mat
ter was out of joint somewhere or
oxl,o~ -
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
Plaisanca

> So the bill was lost and The question: was
ended in the house and forsthe session.
. After that !. matter was disposed of, the
and, despite the bad air, and the restlessnes,
and disorder naturally resulting, a vast guam
tity of business was ground out
The last hours were full of confusion, and
when the adjournment was carried there was
united shout, and the air was filed with paper
wads and pamphlets thrown at retreating mem
bers disappearing towards the, cloak rooms
: and lobbys, bearing baskets filled with legisla-
tive pfunder. Less than . dozen senate bills
were loft unconsidored ii the house, and the
than is usually the cass = The house met tsat To-
next morning for ths transact OF little min.
or bUdpess be4ose 1anally . .s.z
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
Serious Pre- ,t Bi,mact, OAK.

Friday morning tho 5th inst, the Daily Trib.
une Office at Bismarck, Oak, and two adjoin-
ing buildings were burned. The second story
Of the postof}ce building was occupied by Col
G. A. Lounsberry and family and several other
persons, all of whom were aroused barely in
time to escape
The front portion of the postofice building
was occupied by Mason & Conover, ,newsdealers:
who saved most of their stock, Col Lounsberry
lost all his household goods and personal ef
fects, Mrs. Lounsberry saving only the clothes
she put on. M H. Jewell, proprietor Of the
Tribune, lost everything, including building
presses, engine, type, complete files of paper,
and several hundred dollars worth of work
just completed and ready to ship The total
loss is estimated at $34, coo insured for $15, no.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12

s. The list of modern books excluded
from the reading rooms and public IL.
braries of Russia includes translatiops
of works of Agassiz. Bagehot, Huxley,
Lassal]e Lubbock. Lecky, Louis Blanc.
Lewes, Lyail Mil, Adam Smith and
Herbert Spencer, ..s 81, s... 80 sss
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
: Opening Of Reservation In Dakota.

Washington Special: The president has
signed an executive order throwing open to
settlement the greater part Of the Winnebago
and Crow Creek reservations, in Dakota. There
IRE 60, OOO acres in the tract and it lies east Of
the Missouri river and just south of Pierre
There are now about 400 Sioux Indians
on these lands. Secretary Teller decided to
open these reservations several weeks ago,
but held the announcement of tho matter
back until it could be seen what would be
done with tho pre-emption repeal in con-
gress. The president and Secretary Teller
are committed to the repeal of the pre- emp
ton act and preferred to have the Winnebago
and Grow creek lands come into the market af-
ter the repeal should be passed by congress.
In that event it could only be open to home
stead settlement Lately they were satisfi-
ed BY influential Western members that there
was no hope for its passage and there was no
OCCASION for delay. The lands thus opened
will be surveyed and put in the market in tho
next sixty days. Delegate Reymond 1s entitled
to great credit in securing this decision from
Secretary Teller as the interior department
had repeatedly decided against petitions to have
70 lands in question added to tho public do.
main.
Great excitement prevails in Mitchell. and
I'll points along the line Of. the road west to
Chamberlain, occasioned by the rumois that fhs
Crow Greek reservation ,W1b1hrUUn sopen to
settlement by executive order. At The firs4
intimation Of ths news hundreds FuslseS - =.
tho reseryekon e squ.tters f,.1 uRo1
Mscs s' Nv ,.s Il sl,anties have been
~ on the reservation in one day. The
kabnes on the streets AID at the land Office put
Z one in mind of the great excitement during tho
big immigratiou Of 1882
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
Predictions About Business.

New York Letter.
Who::is Benner, the Indiana farm
er? Why don't you Western newspa-
pers that haven't anything else to do,
find out and let us know? ''Benners
Predictions" queer little book with a
fantastic coveris making sensation in
New York. The book-stand at the
Windsor hotel has sold 200 copies of it
in two months. Some of our most sue
cessful speculators said to be- ,goys
erned by it. OF III sthSs bears WHO
! mad a7!sts >tthsn pile aain the tell Of
stocks. :Camms = 40 ~ only one
pf them Cd v1o 81 snsugh to
90. esat 81 III rig and sos held
Ishis own. iisssG.foEer, ], Olews and
others kept IN We current and let their
Epi1e on rise in July and Au.
gust and lost it-lost all they had
taken out of Jay Gould, Wander
bilt and the Northern Pacific, and
more, too. Cammack says he went
out last spring because Benner told him
to. He claims that Benner actually did
predict correctly the financial variations
Of the last eight years in his book
printed in 1876, and he pins his faith
on Benner's new predictions, as fol-
lows:
"1S84-presidential year, dull trade
iron dreop1ng; lower prices. 1864
little Improvement; railroad stocks
higher. 1686-renewed depression
stocks lower. 1887-the same. 1888
presidential, hard times; business pros
trated; banks failing; stocks at lowest
point; upward turn of affairs this year.
1889-now for boom! 1890-great ac-
tivity and prosperity. 1891 -specula-
tion and panic. 1892, 1898, 1894, 1895,
1896, 1897-dull years and poor trade.
1898 and 1899, good trade, active bus
mess century winds up in height Of spec
ulative era" -
Benner claims that trade moves in
cycles, and that hard times have struck
us about once in ten years on an av-
erage.
The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-03-12
Bsechor's Prayer for Grant.

In his opening prayer this morning Rev.
Henry Ward 3eecher evidently labored un-
dor much emotion, and referred to tho ap.
proach Of death for Gen. Grant He said
Thou hast laid upon our hearts . great do.
sire and vehement petition for him that liea
In sickness and before whom ere long openl
tho gate to lot him forth from life Thou has
granted him to be Of great aervice to this d.,
hnand1 Ind land and BY him thou has hast borne
fusSn ord fsou Sss ana laid Go' upon Sa 'Se q,
servant = vsry, heavy yoke and bur
den, and ne1 through suffering he draw,
p pear to the end thereof God, be gracious L
and GiEe to his soul tho consciousness of Gods
lookt,s evermore to the better life. Nay he
endure to the end and rise through the unspeak-
able merits and grace of Jesus to the immor-
remember him who remembered them in their
dark days, and grant that his family may be
prepared and blessed for thy will.
The display Ct fireworks on the nigh
Of tho 4th w1s never excelled in this
country. Among the curious features were
the fight of five thousand rockets at once FORM
Ing vast floral bouquet in the heavens The
scene Of tho exhibition was the White Houee lot,
an area OF two or three hundred acres slipping
gently away from the south fronts of the treas.
9ry, executive mantion and state department.
Uncounted crowds began early to find til cir
vsy toward tho spot from every quarter Of tho
dty. For An hour or moro they waited COM
nentink meanwhile upon the singular appear
ance Of fSAe monument, hundred rods beyond
the fireworks enclosure The lower third Of the
shaft was not visible, but all above was dimly
outlined like ghost Of itself against the black
sky, and rehecting to it's peak rays of electric
lights IN tho city half q mile away. It seemed
enormously higher than by daylight and to have
not the slightest relation to terrestisl things
In view of the fact that Secretary Teller re-
Gently took his seat as member of the senate,
President Arthur accepted his resignation as
secretary Of the interior. The resignation of
al the other members Of the cabinet were re-
ferred to President Cleveland for his action.
T*= In August 1882. 5~hs's -,'>
"a farmer1