San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-06
RAYS OF LIGHT.
Gathered Here and There by the Local
Reporters.

Charles Foster. aged II years died ycstcr-
day in the Second ward from consumption.
The Turner association held IA business
meeting last night.
-Chas. hickman broke his buggy yesterday,
and is out collecting on horseback to-day.
The band concert at Travis park begins
this afternoon at : O'Clock.
The delayed Southern Pacific train arrived
| all right last night
The weekly prayer meetings occur to-
night.
The independent order Good Tcmplars
| met last night
San Antonio Lodge No. II, !. O. o. F met
at odd Fellows hall last night
The Texas Homestead, Building and Loan
association meets tonight
Emanuel Abrahans' store will be closed
from p m, Friday, until p. m, saturday
! on nccOrut Of holiday. lO-,j3t
Two small houses for rent ON Fannin
street. Enquire of \. lillian, corner commerce
and Alamo streets IO-ilH
the great pain-curC, II. Jacobs oil, is APP
piled.
Red star Cough Cure builds up aud
strengthen physically. Price p cents.
Horseback parties are becoming the style
again as the moon advances towards its mcri-
dian.
A marriage license has been issued to
Bruno CrricgUs and Antonio del sacramento
Herrera
Alderman Gallagher is stu a red hot oppo-
ncnt of the Aztec ring. He has sharp eye on
them.
The Young Mems Democratic Christian
Union have decided by a unanimous vote OF
one majority to support the ring,with all their
might.
The celebrated local racer, Dexter, owned
10y Colonel T.. NJ. Fowler, is soon 10 he rallied.
DcXtcr's record is 2:"O.
Albert Maverick yesterday sent in his
donation of so to the mayor for the relief OF
the drOuth sufferers of Brown, Jones and
StOncwal counties.
The city collector swOrC out before the re-
COrdCr - warrants today forth arrest Of par
ties, mostly lawyers, who are behind in their
occupation taxes.
. A ring man openly boasts that they have
SlOOOO campaign barrel and can carry the
county election. lfmOnCy carries the election
san Antonio is shancd.
School tickets for teachers ana children
have come into use on our street car lines
again. since the return of Colonel Belknap.
Antonio Soto was fined S25 by the recorder
this morning for being found with large
scalping knife on his person.
Some scOundreLhas DoisOncd two very fine
dogs belonging to Mr.. X. OBren. One of
the dogs. valuable bird dog, will probably
die.
1t is supposed that the Van Dyke Art club
is named i'm honor of the great painter, Sir An
thony Vandyck, and students are wondering
correctly.
A rat" recently paid an Involuntary visit
to Il certain newspaper Office and was sur
prisyd that II did not receive rs warm rCcCp.
lion as that accorded the human specie so
called.
The Houston Post yesterday claims to
have discovered that Rydcr-TaylOr is related
to the English royal family" and adds, he
has Il royal look to one who is not prcjudiCcd."
Ryder bushes deeper red and there is
danger of a cOntlagratiOn.
Robert Mcdonald was arrested yesterday
afternoon by Officer Schumacher, charged
| with the theft of a saddle from Fred Hayes, Il
| carpenter. A charge of theft was preferred
| against him before Justice Adam and he was
| Jailed. The saddle was stolen from of the
| horses back, Aug. 3lst last.
| Mr. Lorenzo Castro returned last night
| from Castrovillc. lie reports that court is in
session and the town is pretty well filled with
| Iitigants, witnesses and lawyers. The San An
tonic bar is pretty well represented. The
criminal docket was called yesterday.
Captain Bill StillsOn has purchased Il beau
tirul set of buck antlers from gentleman of
NUckcnut, Wilson county, which contains tyc
points ON one prong and fifteen points on the
other prong. Hc has also purchased "A pair Of
steers horns, which will measure five feet six
inches from zip TO tip.
The Missouri Pacific railway is now taking
from OF ship at Galveston and unloading in
San Antonio, at the Arkansas Pass depot,
twenty cars of steel rails per day, to be used in
the Arkansas Pass road and the northwest cX-
tension Of the said road
- c. ". Tandy was granted a building per-
nit ly the mayor this morning to erect his
5000 brick dwelling on the CO"DCr of Maverick
and Laurel streets, in the Second ward. When
finished it will be an ornament to tue ward.
Owing to the enforced absence of County
Surveyor Locke, the board of engineers to
| survey the property at the head OF the river
have postponed the beginning of their labOrs
until tomorrow morning.
Some means should be taken to prevent
small boys from riding on street cars without
permission OF the dfiNers. 1t Is getting to be
Il nuisance, and there is great danger of some
Of the boys being injured.
If the street car track could he EXTENDED
from the terminus of the Flores street line to
the Fair grounds, IT would be quite an induce
mcnt to have some good racing Pt these
grounds this fall or winter.
MIR. Ben Riley received joyful letter this
morning from Mr.. X. II. Russell, now in Osh-
kosh, Wisconsin, with Mrs. Russell contain
ing the news that Mrs. Russell had presented
him with fine nine-pOund boy.
joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Serras
passed through the city last week on his way
home from his Mexican and California trip TO
Washington. He has almost completed his
new work, entitled 10"
The meeting of shareholders, of the
Arkansas Pass railroad set for this morn
ing, is adjourned until Saturday,
November, 9th.
-'Ographer Leach looked pretty last
night after the spirits had got through
with him.
They say that Story is little dis
figured as a democrat. but unfortun-
ately for him he is still in the ring"
Mrs. Jones, nee GuptOn. presented
her husband with a fine babe yesterday.
Conductor j. S. Henenhofier, the
well-known Sunset man, is sick with
brain fever and it is feared he will die.
of the six companies entitled to vote
for the colonel of the Third regiment,
which includes our local companies, four
are in favor of Colonel Belkdap and two
are undecided. Colonel Belknap has it
If he will accept it, and is the best man