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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
OSman'S Letter.

CAIRO, December 14.-In letter
received at Suakim from Osman Dig
ma, and which is supposed to have
contained the announcement that
Emin Pasha and q white traveller
probably Henry M. Stanley had fall
len into the hands of the Mahdi,
were enclosed copies of dispatch
from Dervish leader at Lado to Kah-
lifia Pasha, giving the date of
Emin Pasha's surrender as October
10, and letter to Emin Pasha from
the Khedive, which was later handed
to Henry NJ. Stanley when he was at
Cairo. 1t is rumored that Osman
Digna, in his letter, expressed will
ingness to surrender to Emin Pasha
and his white companion, provided
Egypt would agree to abandon Sua-
kim. If this proposal is not accepted
it is believed both captives will be
killed. The British cabinet is now
discussing the situation.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
TELEGRAPHlC sREvITIES.

1909 copies of Zola'S works which
were shipped there from England.
The Swiss federal council has rati-
fed commercial treaties with Ger
many and Australia.
In the Hungarian chamber of depu-
Ties there is growing dis ontent over
the army bill.
A bold attempt by two men is made
to burglarize The Peoples Savings
bank at Denver. One was captured.
The prison physician at Columbus,
Ohio, thinks E. L. Harper's insanity
is of dangerous type, though he is
of opinion that with care he may 10 a
great measure re cover.
The trc ops have all left Brming-
ham, Ala, and only small force of
deputy sheriffs are now guarding the
jail. All is quiet.
The postmaster general has ordered
to be established a full railway post
office line between st. Louis and
Nashville on the Louisville and Nash
vile road.
The wife of Geo. w. Edmonds, one
ofthe wealthiest citizens OF Providence,
r. l., aged about so has eloped with II
young music teacher.
A New York syndicate is said to
have arranged for the purchase Of two
of the leading street railway lines Of
st. Louis.
Pittsburg is arranging I } have all
the northern ore used in that city
brought there by water. The idea is to
build immense ore docks at ST. Pau!
and there load in light draft barges.
The chamber of deputies rejected
the proposed commercial treaty be-
tween France and Greece, despite the
energetic support given the measure
by M. Goblet, minister for foreign af-
fairs.
The conference of the bi-metallic
league, in London, has resolved to en-
deavOr to secure return ID the BIZ
metallic system prevailing prior to
1873.
The pope refuses to bless models
and relIqueries sent II Rome by fish
priests, and Intended for distribution
IN Ireland. He says The people of
Ireland are disobedient; they seem to
prefer the gospel of Dillon and O'Brien
to that of Jesus Christ"
The situation in Servia is critical
The strong radical majority in the
Skuptschina threatens to reject King
Milan's revised constitution.
Nine. Boulanger, in all interview
denied that she had refused to
live with her husband. She COM
planned that he was trying to play
Napoleon and make her his Jose
phine. She then burst iuto tears and
begged to be excused from answering
further questions.
Postmaster General Dickinson says
within the last few weeks he has re-
ceived the resignation of a consider
able number Of presidential and
fourth class postmasters with the re-
quest that republicans whom they
name and recommend be appointed in
their places.
Combinations: Perry Belmont, of
New York, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States to Spain, vice j. B. McCurry,
resigned; VIM. J. Harkins, Chicago
post chaplain of the United States
army, vice X. Endic, relieved from ac-
tive service.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14

The Times and the Commission.
LONDON, December 14.-At the sit
ting of the Parnell commission today,
Attorney General Webster, counsel
for the Times, requested the court
should sit Tuesday next, in order that
he might make application as
to what course the court would
pursue respecting VIM. O'Brien,
and on an article which
had appeared in his paper, United
Ireland, in which it was stated that
the time has arrived for plain speak
ing in regard to the forgeries of the
commission. We do not intend to
wait until the forger allows
us to speak, we do not care
two pence for the opinion of
the judges, who were especially
selected in the teeth of the justly in
dignaut liberal protest by the forgers'
friends, and accomplices. Presiding
Justice Tanner indicated that the
court had arranged to adjourn today.
He added that if he could, he would
instantly relinquish his seat in the
commission. but he had duty be-
fore him, which it was impossible to
evade.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
Recorders Court.

Mary Grimshan, vagrant, S..
Ida Staff, vagrant, SIS.
Matilda Barnhart, vagrant, S..
Tempy Brown, disorderly, 81.
Nellie Morris, dIsorderlv, 81.
Arthur Faro, vagrant, dismissed on
promise to leave the city.
Luz Garcia, abusive and insulting
language, dismissed.
J. Ryan, drunk on street, s..
s. Chenault, abusive and insulting
language, So.
Sam Irnett, vagrant, IS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
STATE NEWS.

A meeting of the directors of the
Llano and Burlet colt IN yard and ex-
change is called for December 80.
The Red River, Sabine and West.
ern r. r. Co., has been organized at
San Augustine
The erection of the Light Guard
armory is the topic of the day in Hous-
tor.
The middle Concho bridge u. Hors
head crossing, near San Angelo, Is re-
ceived from the contractors.
w. l.. Bro TX, the Cotton Belt train
robber at Teyarkana, is given three
years in the peritentiary.
A. F. Spears, father of the youth
who murdered DR.. Beidler, has been
indicted as accessory.
E. A. Johnson, a portrait painter of
Houston has mysteriously disappeared
and his friends fear foul play.
Cotton is coming in slowly again to
Kyle with extra teams attached to
wagons II drag through the muddy
lanes.
Company d, of the state rangers,
have returned from Starr county, ana
are campeu on LC ona creek, about ten
miles from Uvalde.
Geo. Herzog, brakeman on the
Intel national railroad was killed at
Houst N last night by falling be
tween the cars.
A recent decision Of the supreme
court, it is feared will seriously affect
a number of school land titles in Tom
Green county.
At Palestine, in the case of w. d.
Young, charged with the murder of
G. G. Rogers, last July, a verdict of
not guilty is brought in.
Henry McRuffin, an old negro liv-
ing on his own farm east of Terrell,
for him, in self-defense.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Hall, parents OF
the little newsboy, Edgar Hall, who
was run over ana killed by a switch
engine in the I. 2. yards, at Dallas.
bring suit against the road for so, 900
damages for gross negligence.
Abner Taylor, of the Chicago syndi-
cate, has returned from his mvesti@a.
ton of the mouth of the Brazos, and
it's possibility for a deep water port.
He reports such as entirely feasible
and says it will be had.
The ablishment of DR.. /. A.
Owen, of Waco, dealer in agricultural
implements, was set on fire it is sup
posed with the intention of taking
DR.. Owens life. He was rescued in
an unconscious condition. Loss S15,-
600, covered by insurance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
Patents Granted

To citizens of Texas during the past
week, and reported for this paper by
C. A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers. OPP
posite United States patent office,
Washington, ID. c.:
R. S. Munger, Dallas, cotton press.
Michael H. Stanley. Granbury,
kitchen cabinet.
Emil Vogtsberger, Austin, harness
saddle.
Frank VIM, Dallas, direct acting
steam engine.
Jno. N. Lyle, Waco, oil distributor
for harbors, etc.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
Funeral Notice.

Died on Thursday evening, Deem
Der 18th, 1883, Mrs. NJ. F. Ellis, wife
of F. NJ. Ellis, on Encinal, Texas, at
DIR. Cross infirmary on Soledad
street. The funeral will take place
from the residence of DR.. Cross, on
Avenue G, at 3 p. m. today, Rev. DIR.
Neil officiating. Friends and &C
quaintances are invited to attend.
Cleveland Akron, Ohio, and SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, papers will please copy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
Don't Want - be Annexed.


NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-An Ottawa
special says regarding Congressman
Butterworth's annexation resolution,
the text of which was published here,
Mr.. Howell, minister of CUSTOMS. said
last night, it was the greatest rot ever
prOpOunded by man who had any
pruGentions to being statesman. In
the first place, said Mr.. Howell, the
p. ople of Canada do not want annex
alton with the United States. a fOrci-
bile illustration of which we have had
in the recent Dominion election
which were run on either commercial,
union or unrestricted reciprocity lines.
one remove only from annexation,
which in reality either implies. Do
you suppose the dominion govern
ment dare propose a commission as
suggested by Mr.. Butterworth, for
consideration of the question? Any
member of the cabinet who ventured
to maze such a proposition would be
drummed out of the country. The
annexation sentiment has no exist
ence in Canada, save among a few
he odlums, who are endeavoring to
gain notoriety through advocating
the movement. No one of any respon-
sibility joins in it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14

THE one-horse character of the Tex
as constitution crops out in many I'M
expected ways, showing how very far
from comprising the. future of this
state were the trainers of that instru-
ment. Its peculiar cussedness al
ways was and always will be its hos
tility to registration law. While
open to objections in many ways, in
this it is open to unqualified con-
demuatiOn as affording constant in
ducement to ballot box frauds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
WHY HE WAS PARDONED.

Die Srannon's Alleged Crime ana
| the Arguments in Favor of
His Innocence.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
A Strange Case,

On Wednesday afternoon police
man found little boy crying ON the
streets. and. interrogating him, the
boy said that on the night previous
his father, a man named Stout, resid-
ing on Austin street, had run him
from the house. He passed the night
in the street and the next day had no
food. The policeman took him > the
police headquarters and Captain
Shardein ordered the boy to be turned
over to County Judge .Wurzbach,
which was done.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14

At Cookville, La, the dwelling oc-
cupied by J. R. King, his wife and
six children, was burned with all its
contents. The whole family were ere
mated. 1t is believed they were first
murdered aud the house set on fire.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14

The North Texas Medical associa-
ton, which has been in session at
Sherman, has adjourned to hold its
next session at Paris, this state.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-14
LATEST TELEGRAPHIG News
AZ ISOLATED Press DISPATCHES Al d
Specials Up to the Hour OF
Going to Press.
Weather < Illetin.

Weather Liletin.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-Indica-
tions for eastern Texas and Arkansas:
Fair, warmer, southeasterly winds.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16
Military Field Glasses.

The effort of the War Department to secure field glass for the service ot greater power than the one they now use has discovered the fact that the eyes of the average American are closer together than those of men in foreign countries. The double glass, known as the field glass, now used, is weaker than that used in the armies of Europe. It Is of only from five to six powers-entlrely too weak for the purpose. The only glass they can get of sufficient power is a single spy glass. which IS defective in that it does not take in a bread enough field. The best military field glass in use is that VI which the German army is sup pAe An attempt was made to adopt them by the War Department, but it wasiHpnd that yho eyes of the glasses wero sSstar apart that they could not be used by Americans. The depart ment is studying how to overcome thls dificultv.--Pittsburg Dispatch.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16
The Jews Of the World.
(London Daily News.)

llOnuon Daliy NeWS.1
 Mir. F. D. Mocatta in hls recent in- teresting lecture on Judaism estima- ted the total number of Jews through cut the world as between 8,000,00e and 10,000,000. In the United King dom there are about 100000, of whom seven-tenths are in London, the great part of the remainder being in Man chester, Liverpool, Leeds and Bir- iningham. SootlaIidveckons ouly 15C0, Ireland only 1000. In the British col onies there are something less than 10000. In France there are. 70,o00, of whom 10000 are in Pagis. About 40,- 900 were transferred upon the annex ation of the provinces to the German Empire, among whose 50,000,000 of inhabitants 600,0OO belong to this re- markable race. Jews are found ir large numbers along the northern coasts Of Africa, as well as in Abys- sinia. In America there are 500,000, and Jews are dwelling in Mezlco and Tn almost every State of South Amer ica. There are supposed te be from 10000 to 50,000 in Persia, 10000 to 15,0O0 in the Khanates, and a like number in India. Switzerland, Bel gum and Holland have also consider able Jewish population. The influx of Jews into Palestine from cther parts of the Turkish deminions, and also frem Poland, Russia and Central Europe, which has been going on from the early part of the present century, is & noteworthy fact. The Turkish Government is described as showing an entire toleratien, but 1t is net now favorable to an immigration into Pal estine, a circumstance s5tcibuted to fear of the inroad of European ideas. The state of the Jews Tn the Holy Land IS, according to this authority, not a happy one. There is but little outlet for thelr energies. A large number gives themselves entirely up te Hebrew studies, while the bulk of them eke out miserable livelihood by small industries, apparently aided but in reality intensified in pauperism by the pernicious system of"Halukah," " or distribution of aims sent from va rious countries, which are doled out ameng the Jewish population in small sums.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16
Our PabIic scheoIs.

City and village schools have become peoples colleges. It was not so generation ago, but it is so now; for 90 per cent of all our children are ed- ucated in them. The old academy is dying. Seventy years ago there wero more than 900 academies in New En- gland; there are not 90 all told, good and poor, to-day. Village and city schools have supplanted them. Since this is so, it is of the utmost impor- tance that great attention should be gwen to the methods of Teaching. grading, and supervising our public free schools. Our supervising officers are to-day of more importance than our college presidents, fer these direct the hundreds, while the former direct the thousands. The time IS not dis tant when it will be lard to find a private secondary school. The old colleges will stay, but the private boarding-sehool will go. The educa- tional intere9t of to-day centers in and around the free public school, and this is as it ought to be. The signs of ths tunes show us that our greatest strength should be applied in strength enIng, bsautifyihs, enlarging, and perfacting the free public school. Lei us tako wisdom from the signs of tbs tilnes.-School Jourpai
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16
It is We'll 10 Remember.

That he who gathers roses must not fear thorns. ..-.. That 10 wait and be patient soothes many pang.
 That all are not princes whe ride with the emperor.
 That correction is good when ad- min1stered iu season.
 That it takes a great deal of grace to be able to bear praise.
 That you will never have a friend if you must have one without failings.
 That to have what we want is rlch- es, but te be able to do without is power.
 That there IS no limit to the age at which a man may make a Foel of him. self.
 That the roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adsrn the brow of those who pluck them.
 That man who cannot mind his own business is net to be trusted with the business of others.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16
Wonderful Russian oil Wells.

The production of Pennsylvania oil wells is dwarfed when compared with the record of the Russian petroleum wells at Baku. One of these, the "W ct Nurse, has yielded 140.OGO,O00 gallons, or over 3,000,000 barrels. The Mir zoef, also at Baku, has for six years produced 10000 gallons a day. Ina record of the Droojba well is thus stated: The well cost $500 to drill. It 8pouted for 115 days, the yield be- ing 3,4O0 tons a day for forty-three days, goo tons day for thirty days and GO tons for eleven days. The well was then plugged and the supply kept under ground for further wants. The total amount of oil spouted by thls well, according to the lowest es- innate, was 22,O00 tons, or 55,OOO,OOO gallons; according to the highest es- innate, 5OO,00O tons, or 125,OOO,OOO gallons.
 The spray from one of these geysers was blown through the air for eight miles.
 With these figures before them, com ing as they do from official sources, American o,l men realize that Rus sian petroleum deposits are too great for computation. Five hundred wells have been sunk in the Baku districts, 200 of which, irrespective Of the enor- nous fountains, are now producing 500,0O0,O0O gallons of oil every year. It is the opinion of American opera tors now in that field, that this flow "ceuld be increased tenfold or a hun dred fold" A very significant fact to oil men is the interest which the Rothschilds have taken in the Russian field controlling as they de large percentage of the producing and re- lining business.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16
Samuel J. Randall,
Nashville American, CDem.) l

! d-oAAN AAAS @AhiSAASs-A3 iDeul.J l
 We have not agreed with Mir. Ran
 dall on the Mills bill The bill is hb-
 eral to the South Tn some respects, so
 much so that leading Republicans have
 constantly assailed it as measure in
 the interest of the South. Besides. it
 clearly recognizes the protective prin-
 ciple Tn the Chicago platform. In
 seme of its details it is a mistake, and it is new conceded it will be amended
 Tn the House. Mr. Randall has, how
 ever, taken care of himself in a speech
 in the House which, for tariff learning
 and truthful and conservative expe-
 sure of error, has made an impression
 on the entire American people. With
 this we leave MT. R , 10 say, that
 the people have an interest in this question. At one time in the history
 of this country it was regarded as a virtue for man to stand by his con victions; to stand by them though he
 was left Tn the minority; to boldly proclaim hls own views and go down with them If the public willed it. Such men were regarded as heroes. But now, under thelead of Mills and Scott, the way to deal with such man is to disgrace him. The American has great number ofrsaders wbe have not been corrupted~ty the times, who are lookerS-on, and to them we can say, with consciousness that it will be appreciated, thas the practice so con- monly adopted among party leaders of demanding that the minority shall surrende~ principle and approve what the majority does-or often what 8 few leaders do, sometimes a single leader--is just what has made so many eowardly public men-put so many of eur pubic men where they dare not open their mouths on a public ques- tion until they see which way the crowd is going. That Mir. Randall has been a power in the Democratic party all know; that he is a Democrat of untainted blood, always standing by the principles of the fathers, is sim ply history; that he stood by the Con stitution and saved the South from an awful abyss into which the angry Nsrth proposed to put us by the Force bill, whose sole purpose was degreda- ten, is also history; that he entertains the views now that he always has on the tariff. and that hegis sustained by every Democratic President on this question and internal taxes, from Washington to Buchanan, is a truth which nobody will deny; that William L. Scott, in hIs advocacy of free trade, means simply to get the benefit of cheaper labor from the 5000 men he employs, MT. Randall has nc doubt, and that he, Randall, has always been the friend of the laboriDg nan, as hs is still, must be conceded. But now, since Scott has gone to free trade in Pennsylvania, Mir. Randall must go or be disgraced, and this seems to be the politics of certain leaders of this city.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16
The Copper Syndicate Contracts,
(Financial and Mining Record ]

kFlndnCldl anu Mining necOIt.l
 According to all reports, they are for period of three years ending with 1889, and en nbrace all the copper pro- duced by the contracting parties out side of engagements in force prior to stated dates of their contracts with the Syndicate. Generally, the Syndicate take the risk of the market, buying at a fixed price per ton of copper from those mines smelting thelr own ores, or they purchase the ores according to the usage of the copper trade, at a price per unit of copper contained Tn the eres. Thus, in the case of the Care Copper CompsnY the price for the best sslect copper produced by the company at their South Wales works is fixed at $356 per ton, and for cop per produced by the Rio Tinto Com pany the price IS somewhere between S325 and $35O per ton. or about equiv alent values. The price to be paid for the copper in the ores of the Mama qua Company is $3.18 per unlt for 32 per cent. ore, and for that n the pre- cipitate produced at the works of Messrs. Mason & Barry, which is con slderably richer, $3.25 per unit or, as stated at the meetings, S318 and $325 per ton of copper in the ore and pre- cipltate respectively. The terms en- tered into with the Panulcillo, Thar sis and other companies have not transpil ed, but they are believed to be on similar and certainly equally ad- vantageous terms. All the Lake Su- porior mines have now contracted with the Syndicate, but the only de- tails published are those of the Osceo- la Mining Company, who sell. fheir total output at a fixed price of B cents per pound of copper, CT $500 per ton. The same terms, in all probability, apply to the other companies.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16

Distance from Globe to the railroad at Wilcox over
 Woods and Norton & Stewards lines (oute for
 Eastern passengers rs.).................l l28 miles. From Globe to Casa Grande, crossing the Devils Cap.
 yon, and touching at Pnal and Florence. 90 mics. From Globe to Casa Grande via Pioneer 90 miles, Elevation above sea level at Globe .... 36oO feet Latitude S8 degrees, 2s minutes, longitude 1lo de-
 grees, A minutes.
 Highest maximum temperature, July 1lth, no deg Lowest minimum temperature, Jan. 10th, l6 deg. Mean temperature, .6S deg. Prevailing direction of wind, Southwest
 An observation extending over several years, dis osss the remarkable fact, that there has not been s day without more or less sunshine
Arizona silver belt., 1888-06-16

Five Cempanles of the Twenty fourth Infantry (colored) arrived here by rail this week, and will relieve aa equal number of troops of the Tenth Cavalry (aIsO colored) at the following posts: Companies c and D, coming from Fort Sill, Indian Territory, went to San Carlos; Company H, from Fort Supply, and K, from Fort Reno, h. dian Territory, went to Fort Grant; and Company B, from Fort Elliot, Texas, went to Fort Thomas.-W ilcox Stockman.