San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-19
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Houston city council appropriated
$500 for the Sabine and johnson Bayou
sufferers.
ceived $4,000 tor relief for the Bayou
sufferers up to last night.
1t is doubtful If the dangerous district
will be reoccupied along the gulf coast.
The condition OF the Bayou sufferers
Is far worse than that of the Galveston
sufferers in the recent fire.
Bishop Gallagher has offered to take
care of all orphans under II years of age
left parentless by the storm.
The south and west coasts of England
are strewn with the wrecks of vessels
lost during the late storm. The loss OF
life was appalling.
Mrs. Parsons is lecturing TO the New
York anarchists and is enthusiastically
received. The meeting that she recently
addressed in Clarendon ball WAS pre-
sided over by Lillian Russell's mother
and was under the auspices of the
Woman's SocialistiC union.
Yellow fever is reported epidemic at
Biloxi, Miss.
A mutual arrest of two West Virginia
farmers for assault each upon the other
led to an alteration in which both were
fatally shot.
The most eminent New York counsel
are of opinion that Tilden's will is not
valid, because the residuary clause in
effect gives the trustees power to name
the legatee which under recent deci-
sions the testatOr can not legally do.
The slaughter Of the Chicago quaran-
tined cattle, SO far, reveals very little
actual disease among them. Most of
the animals killed were in splendid con-
dition..
The X. of. l.. assembly at Richmond
has done nothing definite since last re-
port, being busy with the work of revis-
ing the laws. salaries will very likely
be considerably increased. Master
workman from $500 to $500, general
officers from $1,000 each to $500.
The situation is not so quiet at the
Chicago stock yards and trouble is fear
ed as new men prepare to go to work.
Gen. Kaulbars pursues his policy of
fomenting disturbances among the Bull
garian garrisons.
Governor Ross of New Mexico, says
that from personal knowledge Of the
conditions surrounding the surrender of
tnc uOstllcs, ut 10 CtElhll ludl uO COuiIl-
tiOns were granted. The surrender was
unconditional.
The president has requested the ac-
cused Indiana Office holders to reply to
Mr.. Swift's charges of violating the civil
service law.
The annual report of the postmaster
generals office shows the number of
pOstOffices established during the year
as 1882; number discontinued, ll20; net
increase, 1862; whole number of postof-
fees, 1894; number filled by appoint
ment of the preiident, 2244;number filled
by appointment of the postmaster gen.
eral, 5l,449 The appointments made
during the year are given as follows:
On resignation and commissions ex-
PRED, 0ll2; increase compared with pre-
vious year, 290S; on removals and sus-
pensions, S566; increase compared with
previous year, $3.50: en- deaths of post
masters, 577; on establishments Of new
pOstoffices, 1872; total, 22,7E. The six
states having the largest nu n Der of post
offices June 30, 1885, were as follows:
Pennsylvania, 400l; New York, 32l5;
Ohio, 1853; Virginia, 22Sl; Illinois, 2229,
and Missouri, 2057.