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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-19
Oh. 81 s. A. Railroad

G., II. g. s. A. Railroad.
ONE TRAIN TO NEW ORLEANS DAILY
THROUGH EXPRESS EAST, DAILY:
Leave for New Orleans, Houston and
Galveston...... ................... o:U u. III
ARRIVE FROM THE EAST.
Arrive from New Orleans, Houston
and Galveston. 10 r. m
THROUGH WEST.
Leave for San Francisco, FL PasO and
Eagle Pass OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. I:JD p IN
Arrive from San Francisco, FL Paso
and Eagle Pass. ................... 1:O a. IN
s. A. a. A. P. Railroad.
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Until further notice, our trains will run
Daily except Sunday as follows:
soUTHBOUND TRAINS.
Leave San Antonio ................. $50 a. m.
Leave Beeyille at Observation-Disclosures. .. Is p. m.
Leave Skidmore.. 0lO y. III.
Arrive at Papalote. lib p. III.
NoRTHBOUND TRAINS.
Leave Papalote. ...................... go a. m
Leave SkidmOre ............... T3O Il. III.
Leave Beeyille ,...............S 45 IL. IN.
Arrive at San ANTONIO. .............. go p. III.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-19
OPINION OF AN EXPERT.
Mrs. Mary II. WEIGH, Teacher of Domestic
Economy mt State University of Iowa.

"My deliberate Judgment Is that the oven
Of tho Range, as compared with others
Is not only moro equally heated In every
part-front as well as rear-but rs a result
of its superior ventilation tho food placed
therein is better cooked, while retaining
sweeter flavor, and larger proportion OF
Its best juices. i have found, also, that the
consumption of fuel in this Range for given
amount Of work, is much lessithan any other
MRS. MARY d. WEIGH.
HARDWARE, soIE Aossrs goa SAN ANTONIO
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-19

G. F.sTADIcER, Proprietor,
20 so, FRONT ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-19

WOOD CITY, Bastrop County, Texas,
April ls 1885. (
Messrs Morley Bros:
GENTs-I tried MOrley's blackberry Balsam
on two of my children that had the lux very
bad, and il acted like a charm, curing them
both sound and well. thank you for having
such a valuable medicine on the market. To
all who are suffering from the above com
plant / can cheerfully recommend MOrley's
Blackberry basam. MORRIS MITCHELL.
For sale by +. Kalteyer Il Son.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-19
The Daily Eight.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 10. 1886.
RAILROAD TIME LIABLE.

& G. N. railroad.
DEPARTURES.
For st. Louis, via Mo. Pa. ROUTE. 400 p. m
For st. Louis, via Iron Mountain. 6:D a. IN
For st. Louis via Missouri Pacific. $50 p. m
For Laredo .. ....''..... ......ll 40 a. III
ARRIVALS.
From st. Louis, Missouri Pacific. 49,. 1850 p. m
From 81. Louis, via Iron Mountain 1850 p. IN
From St. Louis, via Missouri Pacific. l:UQ a. IN
From Laredo ......,........ ..... 3:l5 p. IN
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Grains of Gold.

Favors to the ungrateful are like COL
ors to the blind.
There is not a word in the language so
disregarded as prudence.
Imprudence is the message sent to in
vite disease. poverty and other evils.
If you want to succeed in life, be
thorough in your work, whatever it is.
A debt of gratitude is too often con-
promised at about ten cents on the
dollar.
Plain conmon-sense notions of right
and wrong do not need reasoning about,
but obeying.
Stick to your own opinion, if you have
one, and allow others the same liberty
of sticking to theirs.
Nothing will make US so charitable
and tender of the faults of others as
thoroughly knowing our own.
The best portion of a good mans life
are the little nameless unremembered
acts of kindness and love.
Shiftlessness is mostly only another
name for aimlessness. Purpose directs
energy, and purpose makes energy.
Teaching and training must go hand
in hand; right feeling and right doing
must keep pace with right knowing.
Sobriety and tranquility tend to self
command and that genuine self-Tespect
which has in it nothing of self-worship.
Pursuance of purpose makes our
wook solid and consecutive. Plan con-
centrates energies as burning glass
does Sunbeams.
We cannot do to-morrow's work to-
day, but we can have to-day's work sha-
ped and buttressed by what we are in
tending to do tomorrow.
When we feel with another, we are
keensto detect the causes of his JOY and
pain, and quick to promote the one and
turn aside the other.
No eloquence is so efficient as the
mildness of a kind heart. The drops
ttat fall gently upon the corn ripen and
fill the ear; but violent storms beat down
the growing crop and desolate the field.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Monuments to Ohio Soldiers at Get
tysburg.

During the session of the Legislature
of 1884 So there was appropriated the
sum of $1,000 which was to be expended
in concentrating the services of the Ohio
soldiers who fought on the battlefield of
Gettysburg, under the direction of the
Adjutant General by and with the adj
vice of the surviving members of regi-
ments who participated in that famous
battle. During 1885 several meetings
were held and the matter fully consider
ed by the parties interested, and it was
found that the appropriation was insutfi-
cient to properly carry out the proposed
design, and last winter the Legislature
appropriated an additional $4,000, ma
king the sum $4,000 to be expended for
said purpose. The Legislature also au-
thorized and directed the Adjutant Gen
eral, Secretary of State, and Auditor of
State to take charge of the matter and
have suitable monuments erected when
and at such points as they might deem
best. Consequently. in July last, the
commission visited the battlefield to
more fully inform themselves upon the
subject. 1t was at first the idea of the
commission that to properly carry out
the intention of the Legislature, one
grand monument should be- erected there,
which should be an honor and a crddit
to the State and her eX-soldiers; but arr
irving on the ground they found that
such a proceeding would be impractible
because of the precedent set by other
States, which have marked the spot
where each organization took part in the
battle by a suitable monument for each
said organizations.
The commission, therefore, in Septem-
Der last, formulated and sent out a circu-
lar asking for designs for monuments
to be submitted to them on the 14th of
October, and also communicated with
the ex-soldiers interested. On said day
there were a large number of designs
submitted, which have been duly consld-
cred since, by the ex-soldiers and the
commission, and the designs selected.
The selections thus made and approved
by the commission are subject to revis-
ion, however, as they must be approved
by the Gettysburg Memorial Commits
sion before contracts can be entered into.
After the contracts are made it is the
intention to have have grand day for
Ohio on said battlefield, and to have the
monuments unveiled and dedicated on
the second Monday of September, 1887.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Virginia Election Returns.

RICHMOND, VA, Nov. 23-The official
canvass of the votes of the State by
counties with the exception of Bnchan-
an county. the returns of which have
not yet been received) shows the fol-
lowing result of the popular vote: Dem
ocratic. 102.221; Opposition consisting
Of Independent Democrats, Republicans,
etc. 12a,OsO; Opposition majority, 30
$50. In the Gubernstorial election in
1885 the vote stood-Lee. Democrat, 1922
544; Wise. Republican, l96.51O; Demo-
cratic majority. 1904 The total vote
of the State in 1885 was 29s,O54; this
year it was 225.3O1, showing a decrease
in the popular vote of 63.75S, divided as
follows: Democratic decrease, 5O,323
Republican or Opposition decrease, 49,
480; Buchanan county may increase the
Opposition majority 100.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Color in Congress.

The counting out of Gen. Smalls, in
the BLACK district" South Carolina, and
lbe election of d Democrat in the Second
North Carolina district, takes out of
Congress the last of the colored men
who have figured in one or the other of
the two Houses for the last 20 years. In
the district in which Smalls ran the
Democratic Legislature, in shameful
violation of the spirit of the law, maD+
aged to get nearly the whole cOlored
vote OF the State concentrated in one
district, and it was not thought possible
by any fair means to ever elect Dem
ocrat from there. The Republican MAJ
jority was more than $4,000. Yet, in
the face of all this, Democrat has been
given the certificate as its next represen
tative in the next House of Representa-
tives. O'Hara's district was also over
whelmingly Republican. These are not
exceptional cases, for In a large number
of districts in other States the same ger
rymander was carried on, and in time
way was found to make even such solid
ly Republican districts return a Demo-
crat to Congress. The days have gone
by when such men as Blanche K. Bruce,
Revells, Elliot, O.Hara, Smalls, and oth>
ers can come to Congress, no matter how
popular they may be, or how large ma
jority they receive, and if the Demo
cratic party can prevent it that day will
not return very soon. Nor is there at
present any redress. The House with
all its Democratic majority is the judge
of its own elections, and will take care
that their men are retained, no matter
what the facts may he. There are in
the South hundreds of thousands of col.
ored voters. but not one of them will be
represented in the next Congress.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Winding up the Owl.

In one of the BOwery museums, in a wire
cage, is a monster owl, with eyes as big as
five dollar gold pieces. A solemn looking man
wandered from the serpents den to the owls
cage, and his eyes met those of the captive
bird As he walked around the cage the big,
fiat ewes of the owl remained fixed upon him
He kept on, and, while the claws of the bird
clutched the rod on which it perched, the eyes
neither winked nor waved Three times he
made the circuit of the cage, keeping his eyes
fixed on those of the owl. Thea halted, still
eyeing the bird, and perplexed look came
over his face Again he started on, with
quicker step, and as often as he made the cir
cult of the cage he closed one finger of his
open hand After he had doubled over seven
fingers an attendant in the museum came up
and asked him what it was all about.
SO way" said the man, without taking
his eyes from the owl, and he kept on around
till he had closed the other finger and both
thumbs Then he halted, and, still keeping
his eyes fixed on those of the owl, he said:
"rve walked around that owl ten times since
began counting, and three or four times be-
fore, and he hasn't taken his eyes of me yet,
nor let go the perch with his claws He ought
to be pretty near wound up, hadn't her
The museum man thought the stranger was
a crank, and went of to attend to some boys
who were pestering the monkeys
With the observation that he could keep on
walking as long as the owl could keeping turn
ing his head around without letting go with
his claws, the stranger started on He made
eight or ten more circuit and then halted and
waited to see the owls head fly back like a
piece Of twisted india rubber. But the owls
eyes remained fastened upon him with placid
look.
@WeI. that beats me" :" said the man, and be
disappeared down the stairway.
What puzzled the man has been puzzle to
naturalists also. One Of the solutions is that
after each turn the owls head flies back so
quickly that the human eye cannot detect the
movement-New York Sun
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
VIEWING THE ENEMVs POSITION.
How Gen. Meade Examined the COnfed-
crate Works to His Hearts Content

How Gen. Meade Examined the COnfed-
crate Works to His Hearts Content
June -Sunday-Pickets were firing all
night To-day has been bright and exceed
ingly hot Sharpshooters and artillery at
work all day. We marched back to our
original position hast night, but brought all
our killed and wounded. We are now in
plain sight of the city-Petersburg. At Q
a. m. battery of mortars commenced she'll
ing the enemy, doing good execution.
At 10 a. m an orderly handed me a note
from Gen. Hancock, in which he told me that
Gen. Meade had ordered him to charge the
enemy's work in our front Immediately, and
he asked me my opinion as to how many men
it would cost l sent word back that
thought it would cost %, 900 men, and then it
was doubtful as to our being able to carry
the works. Gen. Hancock sent my note to
Gen. Meade, who, after reading it, sent for
me to come to his headquarters at once.
went and explained to him the enemy's
position but as l did not wish him to depend
entirely on my opinion, l requested him to go
with me and see for himself He consented
and 1 suggested that he doff his uniform coat
and don a plain blouse and hat. He did so,
and after we had ridden few hundred
yards proposed to hitch our horses and go
the rest Of the way on foot 1 was deter
mined that the general should see Just what
was in front of US, and knew he had too
much sense to drive the men into a charge
after he saw the enemy's position
We now continued our way on foot. There
was line of old locust trees about ten or fif-
teen feet apart, along which board fence had
been built and hedge planted. The hedge
was not very thick, yet, with the board fence
and the locust trees, it afforded pretty good
shelter for our front line of skirmishers, who
were about 100 yards from the enemy's lines.
Leading down to this position was little
clump of second growth pines. Well, by stoop-
ing low and walking on our hands and knees
for few rods, the general and reached the
hedge. On reaching little opening in the
hedge. the general took low position and
handed him my field glass, which, by the way,
is very strong one, and he lay down and ex-
amined the enemy's works to his hearts con-
tent. When he had satisfied himself he handed
me the glass and said, "We1l go back" Not
another word was spoken until we reached
our horses. When galloping back ne simply
made the remark, Il had no idea they had so
strong a position" But when we reached
headquarters he thanked me very kindly for
my suggestions, ETC., and 1 babe him good
day and went back TO the front
We did not charge the enemy that day, and
/ am confident that thousands of lives were
saved by our not doing so. The field in front
of the enemy was level and smooth Their
strong Notifications were crowded with in
fantry, and we could see the muzzles of at
least 200 pieces of artillery, undoubtedly
double-shotted, awaiting US. But we did not
please the rebs by attending the picnic they
had evidently gotten up for our benefit
Gen. F. W. Butterfeld's Diary in Kansas
CitY Journal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02

IT is found that walls laid up of good,
hard burned bricks, in mortar composed
of good lime and sharp sand, will resist
pressure or 1900 pounds per square
inch, or 216,O0O pounds per square foot.
at which figures it would require 1000
feet height of 12-inch wall to crush the
bot ON courses, allowing 135 pounds of
weight of each cubic foot. 1t also ap-
pears from accurate calculations and
measurements that walls laid up with
the same quality of Portland cement
added to the same, are capable of resist>
ing some $500 per square inch, or 100000
pounds per square foot. This would re+
quire a height of wall 2,7OO feet to
crush the bottom brick.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
THERE COMES A TIME.

There comes time when we grow old,
And like sunset down the sea
Slope gradual, and the night-winds cold
Come whispering sad and chillingly;
And locks are gray
AS winters day.
And eyes of saddest blue behold
The leaves all dreary drift away,
And lips of faded coral say,
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes time when joyous hearts.
Which leaped as leaps the laughing
main,
Are dead to all save memory,
As prisoner in his dungeon chain;
And dawn of day
Hath passed away,
The moon hath into darkness rolled,
And by the embers wan and gray,
l hear voice in whisper say,
There comes a time when we grow old.
There comes a time when manhood's
prime
Is shrouded in the mist of years,
And beauty, fading like dream,
Hath passed away in silent tears;
And then how dark
But, OH the spark
That kindled youth to hues of gold,
Still burns with clear and steady ray,
And fond affections, lingering. say,
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes a time when laughing
Spring
And golden Summer cease to be,
nd wa mt IN the AntImn robe
To tread the last declivity;
But now the slope,
With rosy Hope,
Beyond tee sunset We behold
Another dawn with fairer light,
While watchers whisper through the
night,
There comes time when we grow old.
F. B. Plimpton.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
The Newspaper Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is not "the Quaker City, any
longer Gray clothes and "thees and thOusn
are rarities here.
All the window shutters are not Cream
colored blinds" There are some inside blinds.
Philadelphians do not all go to bed at 9 in
the evening They don't have to get up very
early in the morning to teach New York,
Chicago and Boston thing or two about
street cars either
Philadelphia is not so SLOW that she can't
produce some of the fastest hitters in the
country, and plenty of them
The aged Philadelphian does not look
around for a confidence man to give up his
money to, like the aged Bostonian
The Philadelphia girl doesn't always insist
on knowing her fellows grandparents. She
would scorn to have fellow"
There is more solid wealth" in one block
of Philadelphia than in a dozen Of Chicago.
more comfortable homes than in dozen OF
New York; as many art treasures as in Bos-
ton.
Philadelphians do not live exclusively ON
scrapple and pepper-pot, catfish and waffies.
Philadelphians are not all buried under
pOetical tombstone. Agood many Of them
are cremated.
Philadelphians do not allgo TO New York
to have slime" Many of them can't afford
it Others have all the fun they want in
Paris, Vienna and Constantinople.- le.-Phila-
delphia News
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02

MESsRs. MASON s. HAMLIN bid fair to
become as famous for their Upright Pi
amos as they have long been for their
world-renOwned Cabinet Organs. The
distinguishing features about these Up.
rights is an important improvement in
the method of "stringing" the piano,
which originated in their own factory
The strings are secured by metallic fast
eniHgs, instead of by the friction of pins
set in wood, as has been the case, and
the advantages resulting are numerous
and highly Important; among them are
the following: Wonderful beauty and
quality of tone, for less liability of get
ting out of tune. greater reliability in
trying climates, and greater seldity Of
construction and durability. Masnn &
Hamlin have made 10000 organs. Th y
can hardly expect to make as many pi-
amos, but they will doubtless be called
upon 10 make q very large nnmber.-
Boston Traveller.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
\ South Carolina Editor Opens His
Ewes.

The two sections began life together
and founded Government. The South
had the advantage of soil, climate, and
wealth. At the end of 81 years the two
grappled and fought. The Yankee Sec
tion came TO the fight richer and strong
er than our Southern section, and beat
US into the earth while we did our best.
To-day these Yankees are rich in every
thing.and we are poor in everything but
manhood and womanhood, and have less
than we began with one hundred years
back. These same Yankees furnish the
bulk of the capital we use, the food we
eat, the clothes we wear, the books we
read and study, and the highgrade teach
ing in the normal schools of the South
ern States.
Almost every convenience of life and
invention of art or science we know
comes from these same people, who have
in ten years done more with Florida
than the Florida natives have done in
fifty. Almost any one of their large
communities could buy the whole South
for park if they liked it for that pur-
pose. In a fight they could crush US
like egg shells. In politics they are our
masters. and we have to hold our breath
every big campaign to avoid offending
them. Their percentage of ignorance is
one-tenth of ours. When trouble comes
on Us we depend on them for most of
the help, and get it.
The world knows them as America,
and US as outlying and unconsidered
provinces. They are producing the rep
resentdtive poets, painters, and authors
of the country, while we trail along be-
hind with our eyes fixed on them, hard.
ly daring to hope that we may become
as strong, and rich. and enlightened as
they are by years of hard work.
The majority understand that while
we were making statesmen. and warriors,
and ruling politicians, the Yankees were
making territory, building manufactures
and developing countless army of
trained minds and hands, strengthening
and enlightening their masses, and
making them an exhaustless reservoir
of intellect and physical power ;and that,
if we are to share the Yankee wealth,
strength, and place in the world, we
must use some (not alD Yankee ideas
and abandon some mot alD of our own.
-Greenville News.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02

THE American Protective Tariff
League has decided to offer to the stu
dents of senior classes in all American
colleges series of prizes for approved
essays on the subject of the advantages
of protective tariff to the labor and
industries of the United States, as toll
lows: For best essay. $3.50; for second
best, 500, for third best, $50. For
other essays deemed especially merit
ornus handsome silver medal will be
awarded. The researches necessary
for the composition of these essays will
serve TO counteract the lectures of such
Professors of free trade as Mr.. Sumner,
and their general circulation will offset
the tracts of the Golden Club.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02
Church DIRECTORY,

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. R.
l. Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, II; evening
service, z. Sabbath School, 900 n. Young
mems prayer meeting; Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
NlRev. w. Ii. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II a.m.; 7p.m- Sabbath School:
2:30 pm. Young mems meeting: Friday
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday z pm.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
LIMITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
u Rev. Thomas Balph, pastor. Sabbath
School 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday Of
each month, 2 pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, 2 pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, 1 pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02

Mr.. BLAINE is said to have refused
Senator Edmunds' proffered hand when
they met at ex>President Arthvr's fu-
neral, and the Democratic papers are
very mad at Mr.. Blaine about it. They
sympathy for Edmunds is very touch
ing. In view of Senator Edmunds'
recently published letter regarding Mr.
Blaine, the latter would have shown a
total want of self-respeet had he shaken
hands with the Vermont statesman,
even at a funeral.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-02

TIME spent In solving an ingenious
riddle is by no means entirely wasted j;
many faculties of the mind are brought
into exercise; we are taught to look at
thing in varied phrases; that riddles,
like the ways of lite. are often decept
i've; that not only probabilities, but
possibilities, even the remotest, are to
be considered; and above all, that study,
patience, perseverance and untiring in
dustry are exquisite to the solution of
life's most difficult enigmas.