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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-05-29

The county has gained.5, ,919 in.
habitants during the past two years,
or about 60 per cent, 9,749 inhabi-
tants, or about $50 per cent. during
the last five years. In the county
are now nearly seven times as many
people as were reported ten years
ago, eight times as many as fifteen
years ago, and fifty times as many as
twenty-five years ago.
The assessment roll of King coun-
ty for the year 1885 has been COM
pleted and handed to the Board of
Commissioners for approval.
The whole number of acres assessed
is 1S3, 1915, and the whole number of
acres improved land found 10, ,O33.
The values of the different des-
criptions of properly found are as
follows:
Real estate. ....................... S4,519, ,325
Improvements Observation-Disclosures. 9O1, ,595
Personal property. rty.............. LASS. .l90
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. sc, SIG, ITO
Last years assessment was $l0,-
lat $40.
The reduction is accounted for in
this way: An assessment was made
last year Of seven hundred thousand
dollars against the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company; this year moth
ing. Values have been much re-
duced this year-fully GO per cent.
All that's gained by this is lessened
amount to pay the Territory. King
county has paid q good deal more
than her just proportion during the
last two years, and declines to do so
any longer.
Reduced rs the assessment is, it is
million dollars larger than that Of
any other county in the Territory.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-05-29

The following is the confidential
letter OF Postmaster General Villas.
which has been tho subject of 80
much comment:
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
PenItent.
life.

philanthropic lady saw couple Of
urchins pulling each others hair, and,
separating the combatanis, she pro-
oeeded to lecture them kindly on the
evils of fighting. Both boys seemed
truly pentent, and before leaving them
the lady said:
you wouldn't pull Billy's hair now,
would you johnny"
"N-no man," faltered Johnny.
"And you won't pull Johnny's hair
again, will you, Billy"
"N-no man," replied Billy, "but l.
III"
THAT'S right Billy. You would rath-
er kiss him, wouldn't you?'
mo, sir; wouldn't! I'd druther
break his durn back!"[-Newman indie
pendent.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
Two Strokes Of Lightning.

In the days of ancient Rome, when al
most every occurrence was believed to
have supernatural significance, the
fact that lightning had struck in the vi
entity of an open tomb, as well as near
the body intended for the tomb, within
the space of "a hours, would have been
deemed matter of the highest impor-
tance, and the augurs would have been
called on to explain and interpret the
will of the gods. On Wednesday after
noon the men who were at work in
Riverside park preparing the founda-
tion for the Grant tomb were driven I'M
der shelter by sudden and furious
storm, and they had scarcely left the ex-
oavation when lightning struck the
earth at that point, destroying the work
already done and uprooting several
trees that had stood near by. A day
later, and at spot 300 or 800 miles dis
tant, another stroke of lightning pros
trated half a dozen people who were
standing in front of the cottage at Mt.
MoGregor where the body of General
Grant then rested. These events, which
pass as singular coincidence in this
age, would have filled all Rome with
alarm and horror If happening there I'M
der similar circumstances 1000 years
ago. Chicago Herald.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
Gold in an Old Boot.

Said an old-timer: 81 never saw
ghost, but | once made pretty good
raise where | at first thought | had
found a dead man. was prospecting
down in Amador county, California.
One day l went up the creek about Il
mile, and seated myself on a rock to
rest. Across the stream, on the oppo-
site bank, were the remains of three or
four old cabins. Some of these had al
most tumbled into the creek from the
wearing away of the ground on that
side. l observed that part of the fire
place of near cabin had fallen down
the bank toward the creek, and that the
foot OF an old boot was sticking out of
the dirt. 1t seemed to project from be-
meath the stones forming the heart of the
old chimney. thought 1t was strange
that any man should have laid his hearth
over an old gum boot. Then it occurred
to me that some man might have been
murdered and buried there.
Crossing the creek to the old Chin
ney, found that the foot of the old boot
projected from under II large Hat stone
that was still In place. lifted the stone
and found that there was only one boot
there and no sign of human skeleton
nor bones of any kind. kicked the old
boot down the bank and then took pan
of dirt and ashes out of the old fireplace,
as had in several instances made pretty
fair strikes in old hearths, for 1t is we'll
known that the early miners were often
careless and lost a good deal of fine gold
IN retorting it-bnrning out the quick
silver Is contained ION shovels. As / was
passing down the bank came to the old
boot, and in passing gave 1t another
kick, sending 1t almost into the creek.
1t landed leg down hill and from the
end poured golden shower OF nuggets
and dust.
"ln moment threw the dirt out OF
my pan and reversed the boot over 1t,
when out tumbled two large buckskin
bags filled with gold dust. So long had
the treasure lain concealed under the
hearth that the strings with which the
bags were tied had rotted and one gave
way under the kicks | had bestowed
upon the old boot. When all the gold
was gathered up found that had near
ly S2O0O."-Salt Lake Tribune.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
FOR SALE.

Furniture tcomplctcl OF an sroom house.
House iull OF huurirrH; central location. A
hnc chance fora live. energetic party.
Five NM building lots ON blackberry street,
between Nolan aud liurnct one Of the most
desirable and attractive building sites In the
city, slNii vnras. Easy terms offered tn pur-
ohnsCrH.
Two lrts. tOSoO varus. on baltimore avonuo.
with t.ruum house. can be- purchased ON very
liberal terms.
Two nnc residences on Avenue can h.
purchased at low figures. Fine Investment.
Two most desirable lots on Park avenue. A
bargain.
Apony. phacton and harness. complete. A
cory turnout for ladies, remarkably cheap.
Four.room house, outside kitchen, hall ami
galleries, corner OAK and Twelfth street.
A wcll-constructcd rock house, rooms and
kitchen, metal roof, two galleries, stable aud
carriage house, hydmnt water shade trees
and shruhbUry; very coy home nt "a great
bargain ON Avenue T., between seventh and
Eighth streets.
A new patent Champion Hcrriurs' Safe. n
Inches deep, feet inches inside. feet d
Inches high, inside measurement. suitable for
large cuminctcihl house !ur county records
Gan he had NJ remarkably low figure.
Lots I, aud ., In block u, subdivision of
original city lot No. ., district No. /, ranges
aud ., very cheap.
Lots and 9, In block ~. corner tiyorAv
aud Elizabeth street.
A dwelling house with two lots lOosloo feet
tNHN Nl government NH mousse . ROOMS, Eul
lcry, shade trees, etc. Price sou.
Two houses framed, ccllod and weather
boarded, galleries: each house contains
rooms aud Kitchen, grape vines. shade trees
lots JN2iO feet, ON Cameron street; will sell al
II bargain.
A cottage Of rooms. hydrant water. lot IN,
~ Varns, on san Marcos street; will sell cheap
a room house. nicely finished, out houses
with two lots each lshNGl vuras, enclosed un
der good fence; one OF the most desirable res
la sNN
blackberry streets, great bargain ON ycrJ
liberal terms.
A in1ncrc farm In ncNnr county, n mllci
cnst of san Antonio, nicely improved.
Three small houses on brooks street. be-
tween olive and blackberry streets.
Scycn.room house. No. liu North DIV,
street, slSHCash.
Twelve building lots, block -, between Du
vail aud Milan streets; on monthly Install
mcnts, 10 desired.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
Kaiser William.

A correspondent of the Paris News,
writing from Gastein, says: This village
is near Salzburg, a town in Austria
famous for Its old fortress-castle and
quaint cemetery ON the mountain side,
in which are buried seven women, wives
of very wicked man who murdered
them one after the other by tickling
their feet till they died. The Emperor
William comes to Gastein every year to
stay, usually about three weeks. His
visit is always looked forward to with
much Impotence, as the benevolence
and kindness OF the aged monarch are
well established facts.
The Emperor's daily life here is very
simple. He is no longer strong enough
to make long walks, and the roads to all
the heights are extremely fatlgulng; but
he takes his daily constitutional along
the Kaiser promenade regularly as far
out as the Kotscha Thai. where there Is
Il little Inn with nice grrden looking
on to the snowy mountains that divide
Bavaria from Austria. He takes his
baths always at the Badenschloss, where
he lives, and where every day seven
gentlemen receive invitations to dinner.
The Emperor Is kind and agreeable to
everybody, and the Austrian ladies are
particularly overjoyed at his friendly
ways, as they are not accustomed to
such condescension in their court circles.
But his majesty has very few intimate
friends. One Of these is the Countess
Lehendoril-Steinart. who lives with her
daughters in the Villa Solitude. The
Countess and her husband try to invite
around them all those elements of So
ciety ut Gastein that are fit for his i'm
perial presence, and in return for their
kindness he goes and takes tea at the
villa three or four times every week.
The young ladies also get up private
theatrioals to amuse the old gentleman.
A little anti-room divided from the par
lor by wide glass door is fitted up as
the stage, and the roles are played by
officers of the Emperor's suite aud ladies
from society hereabouts,
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
Call Plain Coon.

"Racooon" may do with people who
never saw one of the animals, but those
who hunt them are not going to use the
word. What would you think OF man
who would invite you to go "raccoon-
hunting" with him? You would know
Mt once that he was dude. But when
you see an old-time darkey, with one
gallus on. horn worn smooth with long
use, sharp AK sticking out at his shirt
collar behind, business looking half
hound that puts on no airs, bob-tailed
yeller cur, considerably Scared up, and
n half.grown pup that he CARRIES along
ITO see If he won't larn some sense" you
may know that he means business He
is going "coOn-hunting." spartan
bur, 5. ca Spartan.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07

The maiden walks the strand no more,
Enjoying the ocean breeze,
Where the tiny wavelets kiss the shore,
And the sand is alive with fleas.
No more in n suit of blue or drab
She into the water goes;
She fears no more the voracious crab
. That sought to deyour her toes.
She Is done for the while with seaside
hops,
Those Innocent designations;
She has turned her back on dudes and
tops,
And given mp beach ilirtatlons.
The maiden is back from her summering
TO home and its dear delights,
Back to the garden gate to swing
With her beau through the autumn
nights.
Il Boston Courier.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07

Little Sammy was looked upon. as
quite prodigy in the Farr family. 1t
was customary to have him show oil for
the entertainment of guests. One morn
ing Mr.. Farr said "Now, Sammy, get
your bible and read to us, beginning
with the verse at which you chance to
open" This was to convince his hear
ers that Sammy had not been made ia
miliar with certain chapters only. llav-
ing opened the book, Sammy read In
loud and measured tones: "Neither do
men light candle and put II under u
hustle" etc.-lIarper's Bazaar.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07

Fourteen miles from San Antonio on the
Calaveras creek, containing 100 acres OF
land, 80 acres under cultivation, one
house with two rooms, stable, n good
well and water In the Calaveras creek.
Price $1,000.
A very desirable property, as a sum
mer residence or dairy, 20 minutes drive
from Main plaza, consisting of 30 acres
Of land under fence, good dwelling
house with six rooms and gallerys,
kitchen and store room, n good cistern
and water tanks, 80 head of milk cattle,
horse and farming implements. For
particulars address al. c." care LIGHT
Price $500.
AZ acres of land fenced between the
San Antonio river and the San Jose
ditch, three miles from San Antonio.
Good location for dairy. Price $4,000
80 head improved milk cows and
heifers; price SIS all around.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
A Piece OF Evidence.

a piece of evidence in Quebec breach
OF promise case was Gun with an offer
of marriage written on 1t. one night,
while the defendant was holding the
plaintiffs hand and whispering fervid
words, he popped the question In manu-
script on the smooth linen at her wrist.
She was sentimental or shrewd enough
to keep that article out Of the wash, and
now It Is OF practical Value Chicago
Times.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
BARGAIN COLUMN.
Parties Wishing 10 Buy, Rent or Sell
Should Consult this Column.


A well improved farm, situated two
hundred yards from station at Moore
Hollow, on the international railroad, In
good, healthy country, containing
400 acres OF land all under fence SO In
cultivation, a good frame house of six
rooms, dining room and kitchen. all sur
rounded by gallery stable, barns, bath
house garden, all In good order; water
from a tank and well to be sold for
cash. II desired some cattle and horses
will be sold on the place at their mark
ket value; possession given at short
notice. Title perfect and warranted
For particulars address or call on al
CO. Price $4,000.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
The Concord Philosophers.

At Concord the philosophers
Have very nearly got
Down to the very essence of
The whichness of the what.
They've tried to make 1t plain to us
That what they all don't know
Is hardly worth a tossed cent
10 find out. Yet tits so
That none OF them who worship and
Dub Emerson saint
Can clarity the clouds about
The notness of the alnt.
n ;Co
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07

$40 acres on the Leona river, about
$50 acres irrigable mesquite timber
plentiful situated miles below Uvalde
on the west side. All the improvements,
with sugar mill, $500. Address al.
Co." care this office.
800 acres on the Rio Frio, partly lrri-
gated from the Frio river. Situated in
Uvalde county, II miles from railroad.
dress AZ. Co." this office. Prsce 5000
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
An Editor Rewarded.

The angel OF dawn laid at the thresh-
old OF Editor Z. A. Barrett, this morn
ing, rosebud culled from the garden OF
the gods, as a reward tor the energy and
enterprise which have given Scranton n
frst-olass daily. Mother and child are
doing well.-f Scranton Times.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07

Water rates, according to contract
with consumers, are payable in advance.
at the office of the company, on LIST Feb
ruary, May, August and November.
Early payment Is advised, as by SO
noyance attending the cutting of Of the
water supply.
l0-lm WATER WoRKs COMPANY.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
DAN j. COTTON. a.. BOLTON.
"sTRICTLy BUSINESS"
COTTON & BOLTON.
AUCTIONEERS I'D COMMISSION MERCHANTS
2. and w. Houston ST.. at Bridge.
SECOND-HHND FURNITURE BOUGHT IND SOLD.
JOHN "A. BOLTON.
DAN J. COTTON.

Pou H find iruaags purchasing aaee
Assortment Of NEW AND such
as PUi Suits BtRu Se Dgho' Kitchen aud Office F0a1s cctay
Glassware lamps Plated Ware TN Ware Cutlery Cooking Heating
aud oda;Ca sand
Bed Springs all descriptions Mirrors, Pianos PaauJulalus; large
Of Fine Clocks Guns Pistols, Shoe Proof
Room Fixtures and other miscellaneous q1ts to
Bges Carriages. Wagons, Saddles that oRb at
uitta he reach 0 everybody.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07

For sale at bargain. A ranch on the
dry Salado, II miles from San Antonio
In Bexar county, 40 aores under fence
and cultivation, out OF 80 acres. Good
tanks, farm house and COW pens. All In
good order. Title perfect. Good place
for stock raising. Price 1850. Ad-
dress al. c." this office. 5-l6-tf
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07

win buy several lots containing 81 acres
of ground, with water, two miles from
Main plaza and one mile from San Pedro
springs. Also "a acres, with good i'm
prOvements, adjoining said lots, can be
had at low figures. Inquire Of
9-2-tf LORENZO CASTRO.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07

Every flrst-class dealer sells Opera
Pulls cigarettes. Avoid injurious lmita-
tons. II
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
PROPOSALS. FOR PLUMBING.

CEALED PROPOSALS, in triplicate, subject
- to usual conditions, will be received ut this
Office until IL O'Clock, noon, on the l2th day of
September, 1875, ut which time and place they
Will be opened in presence of attending bid.
ders, for furnishing material and doing plumb
ing work, I'm connection with construction of
IL buildings, at San Antonio, Texas, according
to plans and specifications on file In this Office,
which will be shown, blank proposals fur
nished, and full information as to manner of
bidding, and terms of contract given, ON appli-
cation.
The Government reserves the right to reject
any or all proposals.
Envelopes containing proposals should he
marked; proposals for Plumbing" and adj
dressed to the Undersigned.
j. q. G. LEE,
Major and Chief Quartcrmnstcr.
auggi y, sl3llseplOll
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
Our House and Estate Agency.

Three hundred and twenty acres OF land
fenced and improved, miles west OF San An
tonic, enclosed with good fence, plenty grass
aud wutcr aud timber. will sell at "a bargain.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-07
FOR RENT.

Ihrec hundred and twenty acres OF land
fenced and improved, miles west OF San An
tonic, enclosed with good fence, plenty grass
aud wator and timber; will sell at u bargain.
FOR RENT.
Three houses on Bclvln street, at eli, sio
aud ~ por month. lydrant water. A few
steps from street cars.
fycroom house ON Duval street, sl5 per
month.
Thrco.room house on Crosby street. 81 per
month.
Fourroom house on North Lcona street, o.
per month.
Fourroom house on North Lcona street. 81
per MONTH
slxroom house on Austin street. els per
month.
Thrco.room house on Austin street. SO per
month,
Three rooms, No. III Avenue Il, for SIC per
month.
scycn.room house, No. 400 North olive
street, ut tlb per month.
rhrccroom house on brooks street, between
olive and blackberry streets, ~ per month.
PURCHASING AGENCY.
We have opened for the benefit OF people
PURCHASING AND CoMMlssIoN Busi.
MESS, aud will promptly NIL all orders FOR any
article OF merchandise you may need, saving
you the cost of travel and at the same time
giving you the advantage Of buying at the
lowest market prices, our arrangements with
| the Wholesale houses being such that they will
pay our commissions, not The buyer. thus Civ.
ing you the same advantages Us II you were
here Ia person. II you wish to purchase
Dress Goods, Clothing, Hats, Millinery. or
| Crockcry, Glassware, Boots. Shoes, or Hard
ware, please write us for prices, rates OF
| freight, etc. We will chccrfully give any In
formation desired.
BUSINESS FOR SALE.
A restaurant OUTFIT, with all It's furniture
/ and rooms built Of lumber, cook range, coun-
/ ter, show cases, tables, chairs etc; also piano.
| VIII sell ut "a bargain.
PROPERTY WANTED.
A two story house; modern improvements
I fHir-silcd lot, at reasonable figures.
MONEY WANTED.
ON the best real estate securities.
LOANS NEGOTIATED.
| In sums tolsuit borrowers on approved Sc
curitics.
N>lssesels------->lN~.~
Outside Sales. Consignments solicited.
las. Fine Display Rooms. Sales every
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-10

composed of the triune "Publius,"
whose papers appeared in the Inde-
pendent Journal or the General Adver-
hscr, which was issued in Hanover
Square semi-weekly. ..Publius" was
the giant in the crowd of a hundred
names that flied the newspaper
.'Cato." "Centinel," .'Brutus;'' ..Bru-
tus Junior" and 'sCincinnatus," "A
Son of Liberty" Observer" can
Officer in the Continental Army"
Citizen" ..An Old Wing" Zone of the
Common People," and more of the
same strain, whose essays would not
have seemed to jefferson false or fabu-
lous or malignant, because. they OPP
posed the adoption of the Constitution,
of which he also was exceedingly dis
trustful.
Jeherson's impotence and injustice
are as old as the modern newspaper
itself, which dates from the time when
it ceased to be a mere gazette ~ofevents,
and began to comment upon events,
and advocate and oppose public poll
cies. and to discuss all public ques-
tions. In his censure jefferson con-
POUNDS two things-the actual news, or
reports of occurrences, and the re-
marks upon them. When he says that
a mar deludes himself if he supposes
because he has read the papers that he
knows what has 'spassed in his time"
he al that he has lost its signifi-
canoe if he has allowed the gazette to
interpret the news for him. Without
the record of current events a man
would be singularly uniformed. OF
course. however, even the editor of a
newspaper may share the frailty OF
common humanity, and mislod by a
passionate preference for his own view
and his w objects, he may dexter
ously color or 9'cook'' the news, in Or
der, as it were. to turn it against itself.
Or spike its own guns.
Thus. if he disbelievcs in the sea-ser-
pent and the telegraph announces from
Nantucket that yesterday afternoon at
four o'clock the serpent was distinctly
seen lying OF swimming upon the sur
face of the water with a gently undu-
lating motion, it's head raised and of
about the size of a barrel, ETC., etc., the
able editor can relieve his feelings by
saying that it was a string of old hogs
heads rolling upon the water, and that
the reporter of the spectacle was in that
condition which all good reporters
ought carefully to avoid. In like nan
ner the newspaper which states the
fact of a discourse by Hortensius can
always slyly turn the fact against the
orator by observing that the effort was
far from what was expected, that the
audience was small and cold, and that
there was no applause. These last OBJ
servations might fall under the head of
what Jefferson calls lies. But certainly
the reader would know that Hortensius
had spoken.
A general onslaught upon the press.
like that by Jefferson, is rs droll as a
similar vitupcration of the weather; for
the press will always reflect the time
and the community in which it exists.
Geo. William Curtis, in Harper's
Magazine.