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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-11

An item in yesterdays paper said {:
Country farmers who bring cotton to
the city, complain of the plaza buyers
who attempt to cheat them in all man
ner of ways"
In answer to the above, we the cotton
buyers on Military plaza, in self-defense
would ask you to say through your
paper that the cheating which has been
perpetrated on farmers, is confined to
one or two houses only, the names OF
cheating would never have been dlscov-
cred. PLAZA BUYERS.
G. A. DENNY, G. W. BRACKEN,
A. g. DUNN, j. Ii. CROwTHHR.
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BARGAIN COLUMN.
Parties Wishing to 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
a good, healthy country, containing
400 acres of land all under fence Go 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. If 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.
c." Price $4,000.
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Only Fish Hook.

A hunting party went out, yesterday
on the Medina, consisting of Victor
Grunder, Willie Derr, Herman Froebel,
Charles, George and 4. LANCE. Sport
was fair. While Willie Derr was fishing
he accidentally caught hook in the
lleshy part OF the back of his hand, nea r
the thumb. 1t was so difficult TO extract
that after doing so the hook was per-
fectly straight. Mr.. Derr's hand IS much
inflamed, but no serious consequences
are likely to ensue.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-11

GAO acres on the Leona river, about
$50 acres irrigable; mesquite timber
plentiful situated s miles below Uvalde
on the west side. All the improvements.
with sugar mill, $500. Address al.
c." care this Office.
800 acres on the Rio Frio, partly irri-
gated from the Frio river. Situated in
Uvalde county, IL miles from railroad
About 800 acres under good fence. Ad-
dress sd. Co." this office. Prsce $1,000
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-11

The following are the bids opened
yesterday at Government Headquarter
for the building of the new barracks and
residences for the line officers out of the
appropriation made for that purpose:
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-11
DAN }. COTTON II. BOLTON.
"sTRICTLY BUSINESS"
COTTON & BOLTON.
AUCTIONEERS sd COMMISSION MERCHANTS
2, q and 6 w. Houston ST.. at Bridge.
SECONDHAND FURNITURE BOUGHT end SOLD.
JOHN II. BOLTON.
DAN J. COTTON.

oA advantage purchasing esnotes
such
Frior Suits BoiRou Set Dg-Ron Kitchen Cookery
Plated Ware TN
10 ORDER
Springs Of descriptions Mirrors
andB TfoofSa
Room Fixtures miscellaneous aTs to
Carriages, Harness. Saddles
price Ne o. everybody.
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FOR SALE.

Furniture lcompctcl Of an Nroom house.
House full ui bunr'lcrs; central location. \
nnr chance Tor u live, energetic party.
Five nnc building lots on blackberry street.
between Nolan aud nurnot. one OF the most
desirable and attractive building sites IN the
city, slN'5 varas. Easy terms offered To pur-
chhscrn.
Two l. IA. iOxGO vurus, ON baltimore avenue.
with i.room house. can be- purchased ON very
liberal terms.
Two nnc residences on Avenue G can be
purchased at low figures. Fine investment.
Two most desirable lots ON Park avenue. A
bargain.
pony, phaotnn and harness, complete. A
cory turnout for ladies, remarkably cheap.
Courtroom house. outside kitchen, hall and
galleries, corner oak aud Twelfth street
A wcll-constricted rock house. 4 rooms and
Kitchen, metal runt two galleries, stab" aud
carrinEc house, hydutnt wutcr, shade trees
ana shruhhcy; very coy home at great
bargain On Avenue T.. between seventh aud
Eighth streets.
new patent Champion Hcrrings' Safe. II
Inches deep, 4 tcct . Inches inside, 3 feet q
Inches nigh, inside measurements suitable for
large commercial house or county records.
can be hnd NJ a remarkably low figure.
Lots |, . and ., In block T.. subdivision of
original city Tot No. :, district No. I, ranges =
aud ., very cheap.
Lots and ., In block ~, corner River Avenue
aud Elizabeth street.
4 dwelling house with two lots in0SiD feet.
cnst of Government hill, house . ruons gal.
lcry, shade trees, etc. Price t5UJ.
Two houses, framed. ccilcd aud weather.
boarded, : galleries; each house contains 3
rooms and Kitchen, grape vines, shade trees,
lots JiX2iU feet, ON Cameron street; will sell al
"A bargain.
A cottage of rooms, hydran, water, lot snx
~ yHris, on san Marcos street; will sell cheap.
A I room house, nicely finished, out houses,
with two lots each iSA N6l vnrhs, enclosed un.
der good fence; one Of the most csirnhle res
ldcncc locations In the city. corner Nolan aud
Hnckbcrry streets; n great bargain ON very
liberal terms.
A iDtncrc farm In licNar county. II miles
east Of San Antonio, nicely improved.
Three small houses ON brooks street, be-.
tween olive aud blackberry streets.
Scvcn.rpom house. No. liOg North olive
street, sllsncush.
Twelve building lots, block -. between Du.
wall hnd Milan streets; on monthly Install
mCnts, II desired.
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The bid Of Mr.. Peasants is the lowest
both on stone and brick. No bids on
concrete were made. The difference be-
tween the lowest and highest brick bid
was S63,G52 and the highest brick bid
was nearly double the lowest one.
The bids will be forwarded at once to
Washington, ID. c., for approval Of the
Quartermaster-Ge General, who will decide
whether brick or stone will be adopted,
and the contractor expects to go to work
within fifteen days. About fifty work.
men will be employed and he expects to
have the buildings completed and ready
for occupancy within less than eight
months.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-11

Liquid Bread
VIII give you appetite. For sale at the
grocery store Of Emanuel Abrahams,
FOG Commerce street. 9-7-6t.
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PROPOSALS FOR PLUMBING.

HEADQUARTERS DEPT OF TEXAS.
OFriCr Or CttIEr o. AHTrHN AsTTH, :
San Antonio Tex. August ~, lss5.
CEALED PROPOSALS, In triplicatc, subject
- to usual conditions. " ll he received nj this
Office until " o'clock, noon, ON the 18th day of
september. lNsi ut which time and place thcy
Will bc opened In presence Of attending bid.
dcrs, for furnishing material aud doing plumb.
ing work, In connection with construction Of
u buildings, NJ san Antonio Texas according
To plans aud specifications ON tilc IN this Office,
which will be shown, blank proposals fur.
nshcd, and full Information ~ to manner uf
bidding, and tcriuS of contract given, on appli.
cation.
any or oil proposals.
Envelopes containing proposals should be-
marked Proposals Tor Plumbing" aud al.
dressed IN the undersigned
j. q. G. LEE,
Major and chief Qunrtcrmastcr.
aug, - ,-t,HlsrptnII
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MUSIC!

Leave orders Tor Ruclmnnns Brass aud
String Band at Krlsch's Hall From two To
sixteen Musicians furnished 1.2Stf
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FOR RENT.

Three houses on lIclvin street, nj en-, sI8
aud ~ per month. lIydrant water. few
stops from street cars.
fivc-room house ON Duval street, els per
month.
Three-room house on Crosby street, 81 per
month.
four.room house on North Leona street. 81.
per month.
Courtroom house on North Lcona street. 81
per month.
siNroom house ON Austin street, s5 per
month.
Thrcc.room house on Austin street, SO per
month.
Three rooms, No. 81 Avenue u, for si2 per
month.
scycn-rOom house, No. 100 North Olive
street, at els per month.
Thrcc-ro0m house on brooks street, between
owe and blackberry streets, $9 per month.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-11

Every tlrst-olass dealer sells Opera
Pufis cigarettes. Avoid injurious imita-
lions. II
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A MEXICAN ESTATE.
Containing Nearly 100000
Acres Of Land.
San Rafael del Salado-A Description in
Brief Of the Land, the Mines, and
its Many Products.

The hacienda or estate Of San Rafael
del Salado contains an area Of 200 sitios,
or $4,000 acres Of land in one body. 1t
ia situated In the four States Of Coahuila,
Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi and Zao-
atecas, on the main highway from Sal
tillo, the capital Of the State of Coahuila,
to the City of Mexico. 1t is in the juris-
State OF San Luis Potosi, Republic Of
Mexico, and is the property of ex-Gover-
nor, of the State Of San Luis Potosl, Don
Juan Bustamante, who resides at Salado,
the main ranch on the estate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
GRATITUDE TO GROVER.

An Address Expressive of the thanks of
the Chinese Merchants in New York
City for His Action in tho War Against
the Celestiais in the West Sent to the
President.
NEW York, Nov. 1s.-The Chinese mer-
chants of this city have sent to President
Cleveland the following address:
To His Exccllency the Honorable Grover
Cleveland, President Of the United Suites OF
America.
At a meeting OF the Chinese merchants Of
this City. held November 10. 1855, the follow
ing %resoiut ons were unanimously adopted:
After many OutrageS have been committed
upon our fellow countrymcn in iawless dis
tricts by desperate. ignorant and wicked men,
it gives us, the Chinese merchants Of New
York, great and unspeakabie pleasure to
learn that the President Of the United States
and the American people has issued Il procla-
nation TO protect our peop.e. redress the
wrongs done the injured, punish the m,tlcfac-
tors and prevent by mis- great power u rcpeti.
ton OF the actions which have caused SO
much suffering and death.
We desire 70 express our gratitude and to
his courage and love OF justice.
I'VE assure him that he has increased our
admiration and venera!ion for his fearless
ness and wisdom and our respect and
obedience to all his laws. We also assure
him respectfully that our countrymen in the
United States endcaVOr to be good. peace.
1ul, honest, laW-loiuiDS cltiEeNS, ana that
they are always anxious and eager to obey
and enforce his laws, and SO promote that
prosperity and peace which are as dear TO
them as to the great officers and writers OF his
land.
I'VE instruct our scrihes to interpret this
into English and send the same. with all en-
pressions of our esteem and veneration, to
His EXccllcncy the President.
Given at our Municipal Chambers, the
fifth day of the ninth moon of the eleventh
year OF the reign Of the Emperor kwong
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
A MISPLACED SWITCH

A Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Train
Hurled Over an Embankment-Twenty.
one Persons Injured, Among Them u
Congressman and Two Federal Officials.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Nov. ia frightful
wreck occurred at the Blue Stone Quarry,
on the Baltimore j. Ohio Railroad at seven
O'Clock yesterday morning. Train No. IL,
the through express from Baltimore to
Pittsburgh. consisting of a sleeper, two
coaches, two baggage and one express car
ran into a misplaced switch and was COM
pletely wrecked. The sleeper rolled over
the embankment INTO the Youghiogheny
River. Thu other cars were upset and the
whole train was detached from the engine.
Twenty-one persons were injured, but none
were killed outright. The names OF the
injured are:
Hon. c. f. Boyle, member of Congress from
the Fayettc District; Hon. John bowling, Col
lcctor OF Internal Revenue for the Twenty
third District; J; n. McJi!ton: Esq, Legal
Hon. f; H. Bigler. Collector of Internal Rev.
]: +. Joy. Bostcn, Mass: Jonn sher.
11an. Piedmont, W: Va: L; shains.
Charles Hirsca. New York; 2. ". Young,
New York: Joseph +. Dailan. Brooklyn: Mrs.
Lucy Mo1utt, Sewickley, Pa: S. H. Weimer.
Garrett, Pa: Mrs. Dyer. Pittsburgh; C. +,
ldulng; b. McGraw: unknown man, and five
others.
None of the wounded are believed to be
dangerously injured, unless it is Congress-
man Boyle, whose condition is not known,
but believed to be serious.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
DYNAMlTE'S AWFUL WORK. y

Thrown Into a Stove by a Child, 1t Wrecks
a House, Kills the Infant and Fatally
Hurts the Little Ones Mother.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. 13.-Particu-
lars have just been received OF a distressing
accident which occurred near the little vii
lage of Rocktield, twenty-eight miles north
of this city, yesterday morning. The lit
tie four-year-old daughter of jacob
Dhein, a lime burner and stone quarter,
innocently picked up a large dynamite
cartridge used for heavy blasting and
threw it into the kitchen stove. A tarrible
explosion followed, SCATTERING the house,
killing the little girl, fatally in~juring Mrs.
Dhein and seriously mutilating other mem.
bers of the family. The child's head AMI
arm were torn from the body, its head be-
ing found quite a distance from the hous;
attached to portion Of the
family dogs head, the animal
having stood by the little ones
side at the time of the explosion. Inc
mother had both limbs broken, and hef
body frightfIlly mutilated in the region OF
her bowels. She can not recover. MI.
Dhein had several bones broken, but Is
thought not to be fatally injured. Inc
force OF the explosion was so great as to
scatter portions of the building for miles
around.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
NEWS.

HUGH N. BROOKS, alias Maxwell. wasar-
ra!gned in the Criminal Court at st. Louis
on the lith and formally charged with the
murder of Charles Arthur Prcller, He
pleaded hot guilty.
HORACE 3. CLAFLIN. the New York mill
ionuire merchant, died at his home in Ford
ham on the 18th, aged seventy-three years.
BECAUSE of q quarrel with her husband
Mrs. Albert Fritz, of New York, committed
suicide on the 18th after killing her two lie.
tie children.
Ten corpses were found on the 14th in
the Bull Domingo mine at Silver Cliff,
Col, where the buildings were recently
burned by an explosion OF giant powder.
Owing to their goods being ''boycotted,
in various places Straiton a. Storm closed
their cigar factories in New York on the
18th, throwing two thousands hands OUT of
work.
GELARDI, Sylvestri and Azari, tho con-
vlcted Italian murderers of Filippo Caruso,
were hanged i'll the yard of the Cook County
Jail at Chicago at noon on the 18th.
HE Servian army was advancing on
Sofia on the 18th. and the Bulgarians were
actively engaged in fortifying the threat
ened city.
A. j. EDGERToN, Chief Justice of the ST.
preme Court of Dakota, resigned on the 18th.
WHILE intoxicated q few nights o
Thomas Carroll, of Boston, deliberately
chokcd his wife to death.
lie distress among sufferers by the re-
cent great fire at Galveston, Tex. was on
the 10Th reported to be great, and appeals
for aid were made to the entire country.
Tile lasteIs employed in forty-two shoe
factories at Lynn, Mass, went out on a
strike on the 18th, taking six thousand EN-
ployes with them.
THERE We're 235 deaths from smallpox in
Montreal and the adjoining municipalities
during the week ended on the 11;h. against
304 the previous week.
The Supreme Court of Illinois on the 18th
affirmed the sentence of five years in the
penitentiary imposed upon Joseph C.
Mackin for perjury in connection with the
Eighteenth Ward election fraud in Chicago
one year ago.
IT appears that Charles Foster, of Indian
apolis, who has gone to Germany to be
Consul at Eberfelt, was not a citizen of the
United States when he took the oath of Of
flee. He would be recalled.
TIE ComnissioncrofIndian Affairs stated
on the 14th that there had been a great
many boomers in Oklahoma, but they were
being rapidly removed by the military and
serious trouble was not anticipated.
AT twenty-six leading clearinghouse
in the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on Che 18th aggregated ST.
0G4, 164,557, against 81 GO, 1SG. 03, the previous
week. AS compared with the correspond
ing period Of 1884, the increase amounts to
3d. Ter cent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04

1t Has tho Effect of Increasing the Eek.
penditurcs of the Department..

1t Has tho Effect of Increasing the Eek.
penditurcs of the Department.
WASHINGTON, Nov. l2.--The annual re.
port of Sixth Auditor McConville was sub
mitted to the Postmaster General yesterday.
1t shows the gross revenues of the Post
Office Department for the last fiscal year to
have been SAP, 7G0, S433; gross expend-
itures, S49.317,1Ss, making an excess of ex-
penditureS over receipts OF Sc, 1856, 345. To
this deficiency should be added the amounts
earned by Pacific railroads for mail trans
portation-$1, $40, 2226-and the estimated
unadjusted liabilities-$2S5. OO0-making a
net total deficiency, actual and estimated. of
SS,3S1,5 71. The deficiency is S3,4l4, 145
greater than last years The explanation by
the auditor of this increased deficiency is
that it results from the reduction of let
ter postage to two cents, together with
hard times generally. The expenditures
show but the usual increase of So, 9l2. 32S.
while the receipts from the causes named
show a decrease of S765, 115. The expenses
OF the star-route service show an increase of
$3.50, 600; OF railroad service, 81, 400, 900:
steamboat service, a decrease Of SIS, 600.
The largest item of expense was for
railroad transportation-$13, sos, 3l3. For
compensation OF postmasters, Sl1,243. S4S
was spent; for clerk hire, 81, SIS, S53; star
route service, S. 03. 259; ocean steamship
transportation, S325,462 The profits of
the money order system were $4OS, 93333.
The amount paid foreign countries in the
adjustment OF their postal accounts was
SG6, 955, and the amount paid by the United
States on similar accounts to foreign coun-
tries was S74. $50.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04

several cars dropping into n gorge fifty feet
in depth. Two brakemen were fatally in
jured.
A QUARREL over n stolen hog on the 12th
at Verde Creek, Tex, ended in the killing of
three men.
FLAMES which broke out in Galveston,
Tex, about two O'Clock on the morning of
the 18th caused the destruction of four hun
dred houses, the losses being estimated at
S22,500,00O. The region devastated lies across
the island from the bay nearly to the gulf,
in the shape of q half-opened fan One
thousand families were made homeless.
The buildings on forty and onc-half blocks,
or one hundred acres, were swept away by
the fire.
BECAUSE of family troubles, William Z.
Stone shot and killed his wife at Baltimore
OF the 18th md then shot himself. The
couple had been married twenty years and
leave nine children.
ANDERSON BUnEIs, q wife-murderer con-
demned to death, was publicly shot on the
18th in the Choctaw Nation.
THREE men were killed on the 18th by an
explosion in +. j. Erownell's tlouring-mill
at ~Hopkinsville, Ky.
TIE annual report of the Chief of the
Bureau of Ordnance Of the Navy Depart
ment estimates that &3,4GS,S42 will be nee
essa1y to meet the expenses of the bureau
next year.
THERE We're 249 business failures in tho
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against $50 the pre-
vious seven days. The distribution was as
follows: Middle States, 40; New England
Statne ~. VTncfn,., CO.. SD,t1,n,.,,- ~. d.
cific States and Territories, %; Canada, %.
THE annual report of General Sheridan.
as President of the Board of the Soldiers
Home Commissioners, says that during the
year ended September 30 the disbursements
were S24S,2GS.
On the 18th Burlington, VT, celebrated
the opening of the first street-car line ever
built i'll Vermont. Six mules drew u deco
rated car overthe line with the Mayor and
Aldermen. Houses and stores Were deco
rated, and at night the city was brilliantly
illuminated.
TIE dwelling of Frank johnson, eight
miles from ~Hopkinsvillc, Ky, was blown
Town in a storm the other night, and John
son and his wife were killed and q child
fatally hurt.
SECRETARY BAYARD has requested Sccre-
tary Whitney to send a man-of-war TO the
Samoan Cor N~avigator's) islands to open
communication with that Government.
The inhabitants are Christians and mostly
Prcsbyterians. The country is under the
protection of the United States.
AJUES at Washington on the 18th award
ed Rev. DR. Hicks one CEN damages against
the star for the libelous statement that he
lad offered to sell the bones of Guiteau to
the Government.
TIE Piegan Indians left their reservation
on the 18th for u thieving tour in Wy
oming.
TIE total value of breadstuffs exported
from the United States during the ten
months ended October 81 was SIP, 569, 500,
against Si22,469,0 39 during the same period
in 1854.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04

New ORLEANS, La, Nov. 1?.-Fx-Re~
corder Thomas G. Ford, now in prison tor
completely in the murder Of Police Captain
Murphy, has confessed that he. anu
not his brother, Pat Ford, now under
sentence of death. committed the crime.
Pat Ford confessed the murder at the
time of the trial. The ex-Recorder says
that that confession was made to save hlrl'
and he now confesses the murder because
the Board of Pardons has refused to COM
mute the death sentence of Pat Ford. nc
also says that Murphy, sentenced to oe".iA
for completely in the crime, was not armea
and had no hand in the murder.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
Will of the Late General Mcclellan.

New York, Nov. 12.-The will CT Cen
eral George B. Mcclellan was filed yester-
day i'll the Surrogate's Office. 1t is dated
January is, 1874. After providing for the
payment of all his debts and funeral
expenses, he bequeaths all his real
and personal estate to his wife,
Ellen Marcy Mcclellan. On the
death OF his wife he directs that
ali his estate be divided between his two
children. George e., Jr., and Mary NJ,
share and share alike. His military ac-
c~ontrements he also leaves to his son, and
the sword that was presented to him by the
city Of Philadelphia he leaves to his Gaugh.
ter,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
FOREIGN.

IT was announced on the 9th that Irish
%workingmen We're forming a society in
Dublin for the purpose of keeping out of
that country all goods of British manufac-
ture, with the exception of such articles
as Ireland is unable to produce.
SIXTY families at Point aux Esquimaux,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04

For boldness in adultcration the
Russians take the palm. The new Gov
eminent inspectors OF Provisions lately
found packages of tea adulterated with
1orty, per cent. of pca-shells. A tea
packing factory has been shutup for re-
packing exhausted tea leaves.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-04
A bio Newfoundland dor ho1o

"A big Newfoundland dog belong
ing to man in San Francisco snapped
at a child who was plaguing him. The
chiid's mother %upbraided the dog,
which SUNK away, but soon returned
with a rose, and with very extravagant
capcrs laid it at the child's feet. Then
it hurried to its mistress for a caress,-
San Francisco Chronicle.