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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
MONDAY. JULY 2, '8S
BOUND GET THERE.

San Antonio abates nothing of her
enterprise during the heated term.
The consummation of that long
looked for project, the establishment
of union stock yards in this city, is in
a fair way of being realized. With
these, and all that will grow out of
them in the way of centering and en-
larging stock interests at this point,
will come no small addition to the
material resources of this city. AS a
necessary result, also, of this action
our refrigeration works must in time
take form, and from these two San
Antonio will be without rival or a
possible one as the great cattle, sheep
and horse market of Texas. Smelter
works are engaging the attention Of
our capitalists with good prospects of
plant being established here in the
near future. The soldiers reunion
will certainly be held here as pro-
posed, more than three-fourths of the
amount needed having been SUBJ
scribed. This will bring tens of
thousands of people to our goodly city
next month. The fair which is
to be opened here next November,
and the national editorial conven-
ton of the same month, will
add their thousands also. This
gives emphasis to the resolution
offered by Henry Elmendorf in the last
meeting of the board of trade with
reference to the erection of capacious
and modern hotel in the suburbs of
this city. Such hotel is imperatively
needed. In less than six months from
this date this city will be overcrowded
with visitors and winter residents,
and prospectors, and investors, and
those who come to make permanent
homes. Unless something be done to
accommodate these thousands, null
titudes will be compelled to leave this
city actually driven away by lack of
accommodations and forced elsewhere
to spend the money that should have
gone into the pockets of our mer-
chants, and liverymen, and real
estate dealers and butchers, and bak-
ers, and candlestick makers. San An
tonic looks more hopefully out upon
her future today than ever before and
the next twelve months will see her
in the very midst of rush for pros
perity and business which will fairly
astonish the dizziness of her old time
business men.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02

THE new ordinance with reference to
the afternoon market does not go into
effect Immediately. The city's motion
to dissolve the injunction which
makes the obnoxious ordinance of
none effect was denied and the mar
kets remain open until the case is dis
posed of in September. In the mean
time, the big hole in the centre of
Military plaza continues to cause
strangers to wonder how in thunder
Santone has come under the thumb
of such laundering management of
her municipal affairs. The new city
hall will need name and for genera
tions to come it will be known as
Castle Crank of Call Again. This folly
and the destruction of San Pedro Park
grove should satisfy even the most
rabid taste for destruction. San Pedro
park and military plaza were the two
great show points of San Antonio. One,
beauty by day, the other, curios-
ity by night. Both are destroyed, and
their destruction will ever remain a
monument to perpetuate the cussed-
ness of ring rule in the Alamo city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
jill. MARQUART.
Crescent City Boot and Shoe Fac
tory.

Crescent City Boot and Shoe Fac
tory.
Has the harvest and most complete stock In
the city, and def1es competition with all com-
petitors. The following IS partial list:
Gents calf boots from "a upward; boys
boots and shoes of all descriptions, IN calf.
grain, button and lace.
A full line of heavy boots, the best In the
market; price $500. Come and examine them.
J. H. Ms. $250 and $500 shoes, in button, lace
and CATER, are the best In the state; every
pair guaranteed.
A complete stock of gents fine button, lace
and CATER shoes. They are the finest in the
In addition TO my stock Of boots and shoes.
carry all kinds Of shoe polish for ladies and
children's shoes, and the celebrated vt NJ.
baoking.
Orders for any styles of boots and shoes viii.
De promptly executed. A nice ut and genera
satisfaction guaranteed.
Repairing of gents and ladies' shoes and
boots q speciality, and attended to with dis.
patch and care.
HIS sPpCIALTIHs.
English lace hunting boots.
The riding boot.
The brewers boot.
The stockmans boot.
The boys boot.
And also slippers OF every description.
Call and see him, at No. II Soledad street,
opposite the courthouse.
I0l3c SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
A Woman.s Discovery,

Another wonderful discovery has been
made and that too by . lady in this county.
Disease fastened its clutches upon her and for
but her vital organs were undermined and
death seemed imminent. For three months
she coughed necessarily and could not sleep,
She bought Of US bottle OF DR.. Kings New
Discovery for consumption and was SO much
relieved on taking first dose that she slept ali
night and with one bottle has been miracu-
lousy cured. Her name Is Mrs. Luther Lutz, y
Thus write W. @. Hamrick & Co., Of Shelby, N.
C.-Get free trial bottle at A. Dreiss' Drug
store. d&w-ol-y
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
ReneWs Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay County
Iowa, tells the following remarkable story, the
truth Of which is vouched for by tbs residents
troubled with kidney complaint and lameness
for many years; could not dress myself with
out help. Now l am free from all pain and
soreness, and am able to do all my own house.
work owe my thanks to Electric Bitters for
having renewed my youth, and removed com.
pletely all disease and pain" Try bottle, SOC
and 81 at A. Dreisa Drug Store. <3fy
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02


THE marriage of Mrs. Hammersley,
a reputable lady of New York, to the
duke of Marlborough is announced.
The marriage is disgrace to Ameri-
can womanhood. The duke is the
most brutal of all his brutal family,
and the equal of any of his disrepu-
table ancestors in the debasement of
his debaucheries. Every decent door
in England is closed against him and
it is slur upon American society and
the purity of American womanhood
that he is given the entry to the
homes of Americas best society and
accepted by one of its fashionable or
naments as her future husband. How
long, o woman of America, is this fair
land and your dear home to be made
the prey of the licentious and de-
bauched circles of English nobility /?
Made so with your free consent and
all that is hottest and purest in the
idea of woman hood sold in the matri-
monial shambles for the patty bauble
of a disgraced title?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02

AND it came to pass that when the
consideration of the free list, as con-
tanned in Mills bill, was concluded
without Jodey Savers having intro
duced his proposed amendment, that
his constituents, among whom were
many woolymen, lifted up their voices
and wept. And the sound of their
weeping was heard from the borders
of the Lone Star State even unto the
entering of the gates of the nations
capital. Then were his friends and
his family and the members of his
own tribe in the land wherein he dwelt
exceeding wroth, and they rose
up in their wrath, and thrust him
forth from among them, and COM
PEELED him to return in sorrow
to his own place. Then they exalted
another who would have re-
spect unto them and their fiocks
and their herds and him
they make spokesman for them
selves in the great assembly of
the people, and the voice of Jodie was
no more heard in the land. This did
they because he betrayed the trust of
his people, the wool men of his own
tribe, and great feer fell upon that
region round about where it was
known what had happened unt)
Jodie.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
For Rent.

Store situated corner Marshall and
North Flores streets. Suitable for
family grocery or meat market. Well
settled neighborhood.
Also two large airy rooms, furnished
or unfinished, with or without
board. Apply to
FRANK CALDWELL, LIGHT Office.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
Re- d This.

The finest real estate offered for sale
in town, at bargain, for spectators.
A whole block with four houses can
be bought, clear and on one title.
Price $4,000; $1,000 in cash, and bal
ance in small notes. Enquire at No.
West Commerce street, or to T. B.
JOHNSON, at the LIGHT office,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
LEVI PARSONS MORTON,
OF NEW YORK, WHO HAS THE SEC
OND PLACE ON THE REPUB-
TICAN TICKET.
EcZ-zzssESEEE ~

Levi Parsons Morton, of New York,
the republican candidate for vice presi-
dent, is descended from George Nor
ton, one of the Puritan fathers, who
landed at Plymouth New England,
in 1923, and is son of the late Rev.
Daniel Morton. His birthplace was
Shoreham, Vermont, where he first
saw the light on May, Is, 1924. Hav-
ing strong preference for business
career, when 16 years of age he was
placed in a country store. By the time
he attained his majority he was made
a partner by his employer. In lS49 he
removed to Boston, where he was
admitted as partner in a
wealthy mercantile firm, good for
tune due to his ability alone, as he
had neither adequate capital nor
influential friends to gain him the
promotion. Five years after he made
New York his residence, and opened
a place of BUSINESS in that city. In
1868 Mr.. Morton established himself
in business as banker, and in 1868
he was joined by George Bliss, the
firm becoming Morton, Bliss & Co.,
under which name it has ever since
welded great financial power.
About the same time that Mr.. Bliss
joined the firm partnership was es-
tablished in London with Sir John
Rose, and a branch house was
founded under the firm name of Nor
ton, Rose & Co. Mr.. Morton is a rich
man, and liberal in the political use
of money.
His first appearance in political life
was in 1875, when he was nominated
for Congress. He was defeated, but
he reduced the democratic majority.
In 1878 he was re-nOminated, and this
time he was elected. His Congress
sional career was brief one, as in
1881 President Garfield nominated
him as Minister to France, and as he
was promptly confirmed by the Senate
he resigned his seat in the house to
accept this mission. In May of the
same year he was also appointed Hon
Orary Commissioner-Gener to the
Paris International Exhibition of
Electricity, and Dartmouth College
gave him the honorary degree of Ii.
d. AS Minister to France during the
last Republican administration Mr..
MortOn's services were principally de-
voted to influencing the Chamber of
bOputlcS w uloully Ullc ndISn IcSUIlC-
tive legislation regarding the impor-
tation of American pork and other
commodities, a work in which he was
measurably successful.
Upon his return from France in
1885 Mr.. Morton was a leading candi-
date for the United States senate, but
after long struggle in the legislature
William NJ. Evarts secured the prize.
In 1887 he was second time one of
the leading candidates for United
States senator, and was again de-
feated.
Mr.. Morton is a man of fine personal
presence, tall and we'll built. He is a
very companionable, amiable and lib
eral man. In 1879, when the Constel-
latiOn was sent to Ireland with relief
for the sufferers by the great famine,
Mr.. Morton paid for one-quarter of her
cargo.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02

WILL some one rise and inform the
uninitiated what this "cross tow Il"
railroad is? What it is aiming at?
Where it proposes to run? By what
authority it uses streets graded by
the city for laying down it's tracks,
apparently for regular trains, and
how it is that no notice seems to be
taken of the matter by the municipal
authorities? The LIGHT merely asks
for information.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02

THE smut mills are already turned
on. The cry of bloody shirter has
been raised against the republican
nominee, and the same old cursing of
the north will be continued to the end
of the democratic chapter. Ali the
same Harrison will be elected, and he
does not count upon the southern
votes for the get there ballots.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
BOTTOMS BARGAINS.

Two carloads bedroom suits just
rece we'd of excellent quality and ex-
ceedingly che4p.
New buggy harnesses at give-away
prices.
One grand square Wagner piano,
$125.
Magnificent oil paintings
Two iron safes, metal cheap.
Large variety of clocks and notions.
Latest styles ladies' and gents reed
chairs.
A fine lot of flexible wire door mats.
Upholstering goods from IS cents
per yard.
Kitchen and dining-room furniture.
Beautiful upholstered lounges, 81 to
S25.
Two billiard and pool tables COM
plete.
Stoves, new and secondhand, from
So to $50.
Stereoscopian cases with so views,
50.
Baby buggies, new and second
hand, So to So.
Furniture repaired, packed and
shipped on short notice.
Mattresses of all kinds made at my
own factory.
Seven new fire proof iron safes and
one burglar proof steel chest, ditto, at
prices to defy competition.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02
Mr.. Frank TeIch,

Our marble dealer, owns and controls
one of the finest granite, marble and
stone quarries in the country, and can
give prices far below any firm in the
state. Call on him. S-3-tf
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.isl5Os6OOs s 90 SIS DOL $SO 90 s64 90

Especial rates given on larger space and long
time advertisements.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-02

IF you want first-class concert and
dance music, call on ZOttarelli's or
chestra, No. 34l Acequia street. Inn
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
Hurrying to the Elevated.

The life of station employe must be-
during the day, somewhat monotonous.
Working the handle of the ticket box Oh
crying 1.-THE bridge to the right! The
street both sides!'' from early in the morn
ing until nightfall cannot be wildly ex-
citing work. But at night, when the
shuttle runs, constant source of amnse-
ment, based upon somewhat subtle
characteristic of human nature, has been
discovered. When you enter the station
you hear the cry "All aboardr' Natur-
ally you hurry to buy your ticket, dart
through the door and run to the car, only
to find that it is not going for some
minutes, and that you had plenty of time.
The sight of men running without cause
never fails to please the wicked train
hands who have put up the job upon
them, and if the runner will only lose his
temper with his breath and swear, their
Joy is complete. The difficulty about it
all is that however well you may know
this brutal ''sell," you never fail to be
''taken in" because the very time when
you walk slowly, may be, and probably
is, the time when the train is on the point
of leaving, wherein you get left in double
sense.-New York Press.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
Brass Signs Expensive.

1t was the custom about five years ago
to have brass signs on doors, and every
merchant invested in bright sheet metal
with name and business painted in in
dented letters. You don't see so many of
them now, and most OF those you do see
are dingy and coated with dirty oxidized
covering. Merchants know what these
changes in the styles are, but Of all l am
acquainted with this has been the most
expensive. 1t is not like the sign one sets
in his door and allows to remain there
without further concern until it goes to
pieces. 1t has been cost of $25. and
looked very attractive the first week or
so. Then the variations of climate
proved so great that / had to have it
FURNISHED very frequently in order to
keep it in good condition. There was a
man here who used to make business. Of
polishing these signs, and for So month
be used to come around and FURNISH the
sign. This made the sign cost me over
500 before the style changed and mer-
chants began TO stick porcelain letters on
their windows Styles in signs seem TO
change every three or four years You
can observe that by making survey of
the business houses, some of which have
signs five. ten and fifteen years old
Merchant in Globe Democrat
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
4 Russian Merchants Sign.

1 passed through one of the principal
thoroughfares of st. Petersburg, and OBJ
served that the upper fronts of many Of
the business houses were covered with cof-
fee sacks. Inquiry revealed the fact that
beneath those sacks were beautiful signs,
and the covering was to protect them from
the dust in summer time. / induced a
merchant to show me one of these signs
six by eighteen feet, partially mosaic, a
portion painting He was chemist, and
there were pictures OF bottles OF ointment
and perfumery; sick people and a doctor
to represent medicine: paint brushes and
samples Of the paint; insects on animals,
70 represent flea and like powders, and
pictures OF fancy articles. The sign would
be valuable acquisition TO the Corcoran
art gallery at Washington, and must have
cost several hundred roubles even to the
cheap hands of Russian artist-Moscow
Cor. Cleveland Leader.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
Big African Enterprises.

Considerable amounts of American CAP
ital are being invested in some big African
enterprises. The railroad from Delagoa
bay, the best harbor on the east coast Of
Africa, which is now completed for dis
lance Of fifty-four miles inland, was built
by an American syndicate under a con-
cession from the Portuguese government.
1t viii connect with the line to be built
from Pretoria, the capital of the Trans
vaal. The largest trading company on
the Upper Congo, and the only one that
has yet sent two steamers to the upper
river, is the Sanford company, which was
organized and until recently was managed
by Americans. Considerable Belgian
capital, however, is invested in the COM
pany. American engineers surveyed and
are now building the railroad from Loanda
to Ambaca, which is backed by the Portu-
guese government. Some American
money also is finding its way into quartz
crushing machinery for the new gold
fields of South Africa.-Chicago News.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
An Ugly Elephant.

"Of all the ugly elephants 1 have
KNOWN" said the trainer, "Albert was
the worst You could gain some idea of
his disposition by looking into his eyes.
He used to go out into the ring to carry
me in on his tusks after the act was over.
That was all it was possible to train him
to do. One night at Nashua, N. H., as
one of the keepers was getting Albert
ready for the ring the elephant sudden
ly turned on him and felled him TO the
earth with blow from his trunk. An
elephant in attacking man curls up his
trunk and then throws it out, like one
striking straight from his shoulder.
When Albert had knocked the keeper
down, he coiled his trunk about him,
raised him up in the air and then thrashed
the earth with him, breaking every bone
in his body.
"When it was learned that Albert had
killed the keeper, the ring master re-
quested members of the local militia COM
pany who We're in the audience at the
time to step forward. A squad of them
were requested to appear in the morning
and shoot Albert. 1 could always control
him; indeed, he was perfectly docile to
me when l captured him after he had
killed the keeper and chained him up. |
led him out on the morning of the execu-
ton and gave him some hay. Inever saw
him so docile. AS he ate his breakfast /
chalked a circle just back of his fore leg
in the region of the heart. Then twenty
seven militiamen stood off a little dis
lance and at the word Of command fired
into that circle. Five bullets pierced the
elephants heart, and he dropped dead,
making the ground tremble as he fell
Success in handling elephants depends on
letting them know that you are boss, and
never for moment relaxing your stern
discipline. New York Evening Sun.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
A Tailor's Superstition.

"Think I'm superstitious, do you? Well,
III tell You another superstition OF mine, !"
said we'll known Vine street merchant
tailor, as he carefully destroyed the wrap
ping paper around garment that had
been returned for some slight or fancied
fault.
''You see destroyed that paper? Why
SO? Because if that paper got around
some new customers goods I'd nave
trouble in fitting him ever afterward.
Oh! you needn't laugh; I've had enough
experience in that matter and know what
I'm talking about, and don't care to
risk it,
"Well, laugh all you want to" he said,
as parting shot; lust the same, it's so,
or at least that's my experience. Super
stition or no superstition, destroyed the
paper, and I'll do the same with all other
of its kind. "-Cincinnati Telegram.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
HIS LOVE AND HERS

Together they sat on woodland rock, -,
When the sun tipped the western hills;
And ring dove cooed for bis absent mate.
AS he slipped from the ripping rills.
The youth with bold, determined look,
The girl so still by his side;
As he told Of the fame he meant to achieve,
Before she could be his bride.
He said he would delve in the mines OF fame,
He would strive on the plains OF life;
AT last he would come with honor and wealth,
And claim her then as his wife.
The sun fell asleep behind the Ellis,
The night forgot the day;
But the new moon looked like half buried hope
As she silently followed her way.
The youth arose as the shadows fell,
But the girl still sat on the stone;
And oft the shadows will round her fall,
And mark her sitting alone;
For the youth will forget those words Of love,
Another will sit by his side;
But the maiden will wait as n,aidens do,
For the man to claim his BRIDE
Mary McCreary in Philadelphia Times.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
Paper From Tobacco Stems.

"What do you think that is?'' inquired
a wholesale ststioner of the writer, at
the same time handing the latter a sheet
of note paper Of excellent quality and the
finest finish.
Paper, answered the reporter. Cant
you give me something hards'
''oh, yes: of course it's paper, but
what's it made from?'
Linen rags
Just what I thought you'd say, but
You see you don't know it ell. No sir;
that paper which appears to be, and is
equal to paper manufactured from linen
rags, was in its natural state nothing but
the stems and waste of the tobacco plant
A use has thus been discovered for tho.
sands Of tons Of material, that has hereto
fore been practically worthless. Another
new paper making material is bamboo,
which, after being crushed to pulp, can
be made into an excellent quality of pa
per. lshouldn' be very much surprised"
added the statione7, ruminatively, "to
hear that some genius had succeeded in
manufacturing paper from pulverized
cooble stones. Its n great country. and
you can't most always tell what's going
10 happen. Mail and Express.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-29
A Cranky Connecticut Millionaire.

There is a millionaire in Connecticut
who has now passed his three score and
ten, who has made his own coffin and
who has arranged all the details Of his
funeral He is good business man, and
has increased a fortune which his father
left him. He is crank on the subject of
elm timber for collins, and it is now forty
years since he sent to England for an elm
sapling When it was growing he told
his friends that he intended to be finally
buried within it, and that he hoped to
have enough wood from it to furnish cof-
fins for all his friends. A few years ago
the tree, then over thirty years old, was
cut down and enough material got out of
it to make three collins. He packed one
of these away in his garrett for himself,
burning his name into the top and sides
with iron. He said that an engraved plate
would be too expensive, and his directions
for his funeral provide that the simplest
ceremony shall be used Frank e. Car
penter in Kansas City Journal.