San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-11-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.

The duchess of Sutherland is dead.
River travel on the Hudson is en-
tirely suspended.
The strike of coal miners in Belgium
is spread.
At Asbury Park and Ocean Grove
IN the recent storm, the surf cut away
the beach.
President Diaz and the governor of
the federal district received the men,
bers of the National Editorial assO-
citation yesterday.
Ten hounds belonging to the fa-
nous Kildare park, in Ireland, have
been mysteriously poisoned.
The beach from Sandy Hook to
Barnegat Light is covered with debris
and wreckage.
The canal at Rochester, n. y, IS
filled with boats frozen fast. Two
inches of snow fell.
The Etoile says the French govern
ment will ask the chamber of depu-
ties for credit of 100000 francs to
complete the ornaments.
Lieut.. Wissiman will wait upon the
Emperor to resign his commission in
the German army and to state his
plans for the Emin Relief Expedition.
Nelson's old Trafalgar flagship, the
Victory, which has lain at anchor for
many years in the middle of Ports
mouth harbOr, has once more been
repaired at a cost of $50, 600.
The London Telegraph says that
Sir Charles Warren will be succeeded,
Oh Of nf l,n NTntrnnnlitoN nnlian ~
Mr.. James Monro, now assistant COM
missioner.
The offices of the Town and County
Journal, newspaper of Sydney, New
South Wales, are destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000. The offices were the
finest in Australia.
Rear Admiral Braine, U. S. n. has
Just reached New York, after three
years term of service in command of
the South Atlantic squadron. The
Admiral says the Southern squadron
ought to be increased at once.
The secretary of state has sent the
following telegram to the chancellor
of the Swiss confederation at Berlin:
"By direction of the president, 1
make expression of the sorrow felt
death of the honored head of the
Swiss republic"
The first Congregational church at
Northampton, Mass, was ruined by
fire on Monday afternoon. 1t was new
and cost $65, 600. The old church was
burned and both fires started by the
upsetting of plumbers lantern.
The question regarding the fugitive
slaves harbOred by the Mission Sta
ton at Mombasa, has been settled by
Messrs. Mackenzie and Mathews to
the satisfaction of the natives, who
have invited Mr.. Mackenzie to a pub
lie feast. The arrangement secures
the freedom of l 800 slaves.
The Daily News says it learns from
official sources that i'll the recent in
Herbert Bismarck the former re-
marked: "If the events of 1870 had
depended upon me everything would
have been speedily arranged. Now,
after the lapse of SO much time, it is
more difficult, but / shall regain the
time lost.
THE disagreeable weather, of
which 80 many in Texas are complain
ing, falls lightly on us compared with
the hardships felt all over the north
ern states on account of the severe
cold. The suffering of seamen in the
lower st. Lawrence river, on the gulf
OF st. Lawrence and along the New
England sea board has been unpre-
cedented for this season of the year.
The terrible tale of shipwreck, of
souls frozen in the ice, of benumbed
and frost bitten sailors, is just reach
ing us with the more fearful tidings
of whole ships going down suddenly
into angry seas with every soul on
board. Here we are in comparative
comfort and in absolute safety and
each succeeding account enhancing
the loss of life and treasure only adds
one more weight to the satisfaction
felt by the highly favored citizens of
this state, and particularly of this
section of the state over their own
condition. If there is a more highly
favored state in this Union than the
Lone Star state, it has not yet proved
claim to that title.