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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 49, 1888.
Dynamiters Given Bail.

CHICAGO, July 2s.-The cases of
Chairmen Hoge and Murphy, charged
with being implicated in the Burling-
ton dynamite conspiracy, were called
in court this morning. The prisoners
were represented by Judge Barnum,
who stated that his clients would
waive the examination and asked that
the bail formerly given, be allowed to
stand for their appearance, in the alb
sence of opposition from the prosecu-
ton, this was done. Informers Kelly
and McGilvary, Hodges Clerks, fol-
lowed suit, waving the examination,
and being held on a former bond.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
Persian ReVoltS.

TEHERAN, Persia, July 2S.-Yoo-
mood Turkomans in the Askabad dis
tricts are in a state of revolt, and
have raided several villages, plumber
ing houses and killing many inhabi-
tants. The troops are powerless to
suppress them. The shops in Aska-
bad are closed, and trade is at a
stand-still.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
The 1ai1y Eight.
office No. 4 East Commerce Street.
PEOPLE OF THE PERIOD.

Joe X. Emmett is going to Europe
this week.
Sam Jones received $1,000 for
preaching q week at Chillicothe, Mo.
Forty thousand copies of Daudet's
"L'Immortel," were sold in two
days.
Miss Edna Eean Proctor is visiting
the poet Whittier at Centre Harder,
Maine.
Tony Pastor, who was lately burned
out in New York, will be ready to re-
sumo business about September 10.
Sister M. Francis Clare Cusack,
'"rhe Nun of Kenmare, denies the
story that she has left the Catholic
church.
DIR. w. X. Brooks, of John Hopkins
University, has been appointed a
naturalist of the United States Fish
commission.
Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Detroit,
and Editor John r. Mclean, of
Detroit, and Editor John r. Mclean,
of Cincinnati, are at the Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York.
Neil Burgess has accepted the new
play, just finished, written for him
by Chas. Bernard, entitled, "Ten to
One; or the County Fair"
George Alfred Townsend is to write
campaign biography of Levi p. Nor
ton to accompany Gen. Lew. Wal
lace's life of Harrison.
Miss Anna Dickinson is slowly re-
covering from a severe attack of illness
which Frustrated her in May. She
has heen i'll for over a wear
The youthful emperor of China rises
at three o'clock in the morning,
breakfasts at six, dimes at noon, sups
at three o'clock, and goes to bed by
six.
The New Hampshire birthplace and
early home of Horace Greeley is to
be bought and presented to the State
by Stilson Hutchins, of Washington.
Mile. Juliette Grevy, the insane
sister of the late French President,
died last week in the asylum where
she had been confined during twenty
eight years.
Mr. s. Polk, Mrs, Garfield and Mrs.
Grant are the fortunate three women
who don't have to buy postage
stamps, the government having given
them the frauding privilege.
Congressman Brice, chairman of
the democratic national executive
committee, ," is the way the New York
World now writes it. The title of
General" seems to have lapsed.
Mrs. William Drenan, of Honey
Grove, Texas, prides herself on the
fact that Abe Lincoln courted her and
asked her to be his wife. She refused
the splice, as he was then the home
lest man in Illinois.
A portrait of Mr.. Gladstone by HOll
and one of Mrs. Gladstone by Herbert
Herkomer will be presen ted TO Mr..
and Mrs. Gladstone by members of
the lords and commons upon the oc-
casion of their jubilee wedding cele-
bration.
Mr.. Parnell is man who courts re-
tirement, and has managed to live for
years in London without any one
having the most remote idea of his
whereabouts. He seldom appears in
evening dress, and on all occasions
his attire is remarkable for it's unpre-
tention. He wears heavy dark tweed
clothes, and it is very seldom that the
waistcoast and coat are of the same
suit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
BrazoS to be Improved.

WASHINGTON, July 2s.-Yesterday
in the house, ON a motion Of Grain of
Texas, the bill was passed authoriz-
ing the Brazos River Channel and
Dock Company to improve the mouth
of the BraZOs river, Texas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
An Agreement Come To.

New YORK, July 2s.-The Texas
traffic lines representatives, who all
this week have been endeavoring to
effect an organization as public car
riers, have agreed to the proposed
agreement, and it will probably be
signed at a general meeting on Tues
day.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
The Italian Labor Question.

PITTsBURG, July 2S.-The Chronicle
Telegraph investigated the italian la
Dor question in this city and vicinity,
and finds there are several thousand
laborers working under the padrone
system and the traffic is regularly
carried on by about fifteen agents,
who operate in connection with the
New York agents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
Italy Takes Possession.

PARIS, July 2s.-Count Menabrea,
italian ambassador, has handed M.
Goblet, minister of foreign affairs, a
note addressed to all the European
powers, notifying them that Italy has
definitely taken possession Of Mas
sowah, and the adjacent territory.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28

Mr.. Harry Seele, the popular young
book-keeper for Martin & Schryver,
returned yesterday afternoon from
TOpo Chico Springs, having had a
Jolly time of it while there. Messrs.
w. Kypfer, Willie Seng, and Johnny
Bitter send regards to their friends
and say they will be home next week,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
Don't Want Them to Go.

VIENNA, July 2s.-Nine emigration
agents are arrested at Cracow, for in
citing the natives of that district to
emigrate to America.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28

Many complaints are now made
by the police that lamps are not
lighted, and last night for one and a
half hour the electric light failed to
illuminate the neigh OrhOod.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
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Weather Bulletin.

Weather Bulletin.
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 2s.-Indi-
cations for Texas: Fair, stationary
temperature, variable winds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
American Pearls.

Pearls are produced in some OF the
unios (fresh-water musSels), of which
there are many hundred species. es-
pecialls those found in the fresh
water brooks trayersing D lime
stone country. The first pearl of
any note was the famous .scrown
pearl, found by shoemaker, Daniel
Howell, while collecting some of these
mussels in Notch brook, near Pater-
son, N. J. This was purchased by
Messrs. Tiffany & Co. for $1,000 in
1856, and led to the great pearl excite
ment. Millions of unios were collected,
and many thousands of pearls were
found, and some of them very fine
ones. One, however, which weighed
nearly four hundred grains, and
would perhaps have been the finest
pearl of modern times, was destroyed
by cooking the mussel. They have
since then been fi5hed out as far west
as Ohio! At Waynesville and at other
places on the Little Miami river many
fine pearls have been found, and
more recently fine ones have been
found in Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Texas. One single firm has purchased
east of Texas. The pearls are rarely
entirely round, usually little oblong,
button-shaped, fiat on the back, and
initiating every conceivable form,
such as beetles, fish, bird-wings, and
often have had this feature as
sisted in the mounting of enamel and
gold, after the manner of Dinglinger
pearls at the famous Dresden green
vaults. The color is rarely a true
white, usually pink or blush. often
iridescent. The nacre is smoother, if
anything, than in the oriental pearls,
and they are often more beautiful.
Single pearls have often been sold for
over $4,000. Only one pearl of any
kind is found in hundred shells, and
usually one in a thousand of any value,
SO that it is not very profitable pur-
suit. The indiscriminate killing off of
the mussels in fishing and by poison
Gus sewage will eventually lead to their
determination. The greatest destroy
ers, however, are the hogs, which kill
off whole banks at a single low tide.
Pearls are also secreted by the COM
mon hardshell CLANS (Tenms naercen1-
ar50); these are usually white, tinged
with purple, or almost black. The
latter colors are preferred, although
they have little value. They sell at
from 81 to 500 each, and are found as
large as a hazelnut. The common
conch (stronabus gigas), fshed extern
siyely on the Florida coast for bait,
often contains the so-called pink
pearls. Although they are not true
pearls, they have sold at $1,000 each.
Our oyster pearls have neither value
nor beauty.-G. 2. Kama, Ia Harpe5's
Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
Cheap Books.

Brander Matthews advocates inter.
national copyright in the Centurg.
We quote as follows: Il come now to
the one class of books the price OF
which would be increased by the
granting of International Copyright.
This is the large and important class
of fiction. OF course American novels
would be no dearer; and probably
trarslations from the French, German,
Italian, Spanish and Russian would
not vary greatly in price. But Eng
lish novels would not be sold for ten,
fifteen, twenty, or twenty-five cents
each. We should not see five or ten
rival reprints of a single story by the
most popular English novelists. There
would be but a single edition of the
latest novels of the leading British
story-tellers. and this would be offered
at whatsoever price the authorized
publisher might choose to ask-some
times much, generally little. English
fiction would no longer cost less than
American fiction. The premium of
cheapness which now serves to make
the American public to take imported
novels instead of native wares would
be removed; and with it would be re-
moved the demoralizing influence on
Americans of a constant diet of Enc
lish fiction. That American men and
women should read the best that the
better English novelists have to offer
US is most desirable; that our laws
should encourage the reading of Eng
lish stories, good and bad together,
and the bad, of course, in enormous
majority, is obviously improper and
unwise. A well-nigh exclusive diet
of English fiction, full of the feudal
IDEAS and superstitions and suryivals
of which we have been striving for
century to rid ourselves, is not whole
some for those who need to be strength
ened and enlightened to do their duty
as citizens Of free republic. The
strongest argument against novel
reading just now is that the novel
which an American is most likely to
read is British. Society is a strong
solution of books, DIR. Holmes tells
best worth reading, as hot water
draws the strength of tea-leaves.'
And in like manner society draws the
vice out of what is least worth read
ing. Unfortunately, under the pres
ent state of the law, society in America
is far less likely to get what is best
worth reading than what is least worth
reading.
The passage of the Authors Copy
right Bill would tend to correct this
evil. it would make English novels
dearer, probably; but it would have
very little effect on the prices of other
hooks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
Not All little Angels.

Two married ladies were talking in
a street-car. One was recounting the
wonderful sayings of her precocious
children. 81 was travelling in the
West" said one, accompanied by my
6-year-old Freddie. We stopped at a
railroad eatin g-house where colored
man walked up and down pounding a
gong. Fred listened awhile, and,
with North Side look of contempt,
said: Maybe that Teller thinks he's
playin' tune, but he isn't When he
was years old he saw his first snow
storm and exclaimed: See; it's rain
ing popcorn But it is my little girl
who always has the faculty of giving
me away" she continued. ''When
she first started to school the teacher
asked her name. Stella, was the re-
ply. But your last name?' She was
silent, not understanding that she had
a family name. After several despair
ing efforts the teacher asked: What
does mamma call papa?' o, old black
debbil, when she's madr was the re-
ply"
An old gentleman living on the
West Side entered the connubial state
for the fourth time not long since.
During the ceremony sobs were heard
in an adjoining room, which led q
guest to inquire what was the matter,
whereupon little boy answered: at
is only Maria. She always cries when
papa gets married"
a little boy and girl on the North
Side were looking at the picture of
Jacobs ladder, with the angels as
cending and descending. The little
boy strongly objected to believe in the
story, because, he said, everybody
knew angels had wings and so they
did not need ladder TO climb to heav-
en- on. But" said the little girl,
perhaps these angels were noting"
There were visitors at the Skinner
School the other day, and class was
put on exhibition Now" said the
teacher, ''can you tell me anything
about heat?" A small boy held up his
hand. well, sir" said the teacher
Heat expands; cold contracts"
every good; now give an example"
''In summer the days are long; il
winter the days are short" Great APP
plause by the visitors, and the small
boy takes his seat.-Cb Chicago Iri0uae.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
Old Southern Homes.

4 great many of the plantations in
different parts of the South, which
were once well known for their size,
the magnifcence of the residences
upon them, the hospitality of their
nence of the families which possessed
them, are now falling into ruins. The
reason of this is, perhaps, that the
land has been worked so long with
out being fortified that it has become
poor, or it may be that those into
whose possession it has passed lack the
energy and skill which are required to
make it pay under the present system
OF labor. One of these famous old
places. in Liberty county in this State,
was lately sold to a colored man for
S2.ooo, only a part of the purchase
price being required at once 1t is
known as Laurel View, and is within
two miles of the historic town of Sun
bury. 1t is the home of the gifted
John Elliott and a very beautiful
home it was. John Elliott represented
Georgia in the United States Senate
from 1920 70 1926.
The plantation contains $500 acres.
IL WIS purchased turing the war of
secession by Linton Stephens, broth
er of Alexander II. Stephens, and
was sold to the present owner by his
heirs.
The district in which the plantation
is situated was noted, from the first
settlement of the State until the eman-
cipation of the slaves, for the intelli-
geuee and wealth of its citizens. 1t is
now, however, almost wholly ADAM
doned to the colored people. Its
great plantations have been divided
into small farms, and the superb man.
sions, once the homes of men noted for
wealth and culture, and of women
famous for beauty and refinement. are
falling into decay, and are being re-
placed by cabins and huts, whose
chimneys of sticks and mud tell more
plainly than words of the marvellous
change for the worse which has taken
place in the once rich and prosperous
district. -SarGnnab NewS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
Brides Who Perch in Trees.

Among the Lolos of Western China
it is customary for the bride on the
wedding morning to perch herself on
the highest branch of a large tree,
while the elder female members of her
family cluster on the lower limbs,
armed with sticks. When all are duly
stationed the bridegroom chambers up
the tree, assaulted on all sides by blows,
pushes, and pinches from the dow
ayers, and it is not until he has
broken through their fence and cap
tured the bride that he is allowed to
carry her off, Similar difficulties as
sail the bridegroom among the Mon
golian Koraks, who are in the habit of
celebrating their marriages in large
tents, divided into numerous separate
but communicating compartments.
At given signal, as soon as the
guests are assembled, the bride starts
off through the compartments, fol-
lowed by her wooer, while the women
of the encampment throw every pos
sible impeachment IL his way, tripping
up his unwary feet, holding down the
curtains to prevent his passage, and
applying the willow and alder switches
numerically as he stoops TO raise
them. As with the maiden on the
horse and the virgin on the tree-top,
the Korak bride is invariably capt
ured, however much the possibilities
of escape may be in her BLack-
1C00ds MdqQz5ne..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
A Sign of Insanity.

An Irishman over the age of fore
score and ten, who by strict economy
had accumulated a modest fortune,
and was about to die, called in the
parish priest and the family lawyer to
make his last will and testiment. The
wife, grasping, covetous old party
was also in the room. The prelimin-
aries of the will having been concluded
it became necessary to inquire about
the debts owing to the estate. Among
these were several of Importance Of
which the old lady had been in igno-
rance, but was nevertheless pleased to
ind that SO much ready money would
be Forthcoming after the funeral
'Now, them" said the lawyer, estate
explicitly the amount owed you by
your friends"
Timothy Brown" replied the old
man, ''owes me fifty pounds; John
Casey owes me thirty-seven pounds;
and
'Goodi goodr' calculated the pros
pective widow; rational to the lastw
Luke Bowen owes me forty pounds"
resumed the old man.
Rational to the last" put in the
eager old lady again.
ITO Michael Liffey owe two hun
lred pounds"
''Ahr' exclaimed the old woman,
shear hin: race !"-Edttor'S Draecer IN
Harper's Magdziase.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
Il Gamblers Mistake.

A New York correspondent writes
as follows to the Jacksonville NeS0s-
Herald: l was eating dinner the other
evening in well-knoWn restaurant
uptown. At neighborlng table a
young lady that I know slightly was
sitting with her brother, college fell
low, about 20 years Of age, and big,
splendid, right-minded fellow He
was treating his lovely sister with the
same eloquent politeness he would
have employed with a sweetheart,
though he did not watch her so closely
as he might have, had such been the
case. l caught side view Of each Of
them from where they sat, and [ was
very much surprised to observe that
the girl was flirting with man who
sat table back of the brother / was
shocked, and began to wonder if no
New York girl was above such cheap
immortality. What made it worse was
the fact that recognized the man who
was presuming so much as motor
ious gambler. I felt that had no
right to say word, and of course I
did not, though | was very angry a.
the false innocence that decent girls
affect sometimes. When the gambler
had finished his dinner he went to the
desk and wrote something on a piece
of paper. Then he called the waiter
who was serving the two young peo-
pie, and handed the paper to him with
some verbal directions and large fee.
He then left the restaurant. Immedi-
ately heard the young fellow ask his
sister to excuse him q moment, and
then left the room.
| had table by the window, and l
looked out. The gambler was stand
ing on the sidewalk, looking in. Pre-
sently he was confronted by the sis
ter's brother. There was Just one
word said by each of them, and then
the gambler was struck two blows in
the face that could be heard in the
restaurant. He staggered back, and
then, gathering himself together. made
a rush. Once more he was struck
resounding blow, and this time he
fell backward and stayed where he
fell.
The lad then came back to the room.
His face was flushed, but he took his
chair and said some light thing to his
sister, who had heard nothing. He
spoke to the waiter in an undertone,
and the gamblers message to the
girl was handed to him. He put this
in his pocket, and the little episode
was over.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
The Cars Book.

ellis Splendor the Prince Mikhail
Andreivitch Mp cried the So
norous voice of an imperial lackey at
the main entrance of the Winter
Palace at st. Petersburg.
"Will your Splendor be good enough
to follow me? His Majesty is await
ing you in the library" said q gor-
geous chamberlain, trying hard to
conceal the surprise which he evil
IDENTIFY felt at seeing that the Prince,
usually magnificent in silk and vel
vet and blazing with jewels whenever
he came to court, was now clad in a
plain and not particularly new mill
tary uniform.
But there was good cause for this
eclipse of ''his Splendor." The Cars
court at that time one of the most
brilliant and luxurious in Europe, was
not the place for a man like poor
Prince M to save money. He was
now so deeply in debt that he could
not even obtain credit for court suit,
and had consequently ceased to APP
pear at the palace, till the Gar,
guessing what was wrong with his old
friend, sent carriage to fetch him.
Entering the library, Prince M
found himself face to face with tall,
fine-looking man in the prime of life,
whose ruddy cheek and bright blue
eye showed little outward sign of the
terrible possibilities which were
then weighing SO heavily upon Alexan-
der I. of Russia.
''Mikhail Andreievitch," said the
Gar after few friendly words, II
have book here of my own compo-
sition upon which l should like to
have your opinion. Take it home
with you, and see what you think of
it."
This request greatly amazed the
Prince, who was much better Judge
of sauces or cigars than of books.
But his wonder ceased when he opened
the Cars work on his way home, and
found that every leaf was bank-bil1
to considerable amount, the whole
making up sufficient sum to pay his
debts in full, and send him to the next
court reception in all his former splen-
dor.
''Well, Mikhail Andreievitch," asked
the Gar, on seeing him there, chow
did you like my new book?"
''Sire," answered the Prince, with
bow, ''the first volume pleased me so
much that have already devoured all
its contents. Has your Majesty any
idea when the second is likely to APP
pear?"-ELitor's DrdUer, in Rarper's
Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
Give the Girls q Library.

No parent can do better that to give
his daughter substantial library.
Her mind must be stored with knowl-
edge if she is to take her proper posi-
ton in life. A part of woman's edu-
cation is to make a good loaf of bread.
We men must eat. 4 girl is not fit to
be called 4 girl unless she can make
bread, and the world is finding that
out. Every girl ought to be a good
housekeeper. If she is not the young
man who marries her will have to keep
house himself. Woman possesses a
great deal of substantial life. If she
stands by her father and mother, and
home; if she keeps the parlor in order,
and now and then slips into the kitchen
and has talk with the cook, she will
be giving herself true womanly edu-
cation. The women of the land need
little waking up to this. The women
of America are not SO active as those
of Europe. In Germany they are re-
quired to have a trade. In England
they help their husbands in bust
ness and accounts. Let me ask,
do you help your motherP Does your
father think his home happier because
of your presence IN it? Can you make
a good biscuit? These are home ques-
tions. You must feed the body as well
as the soul, and woman must know all
about home life. She must govern her
house. 1t is her empire, where she
can receive her friends and show them
her handiwork. Don't reach old age
and say you never made a single life
happy. Go into your homes to adorn
refine, and beautify them. Go to your
homes to make them happy.-The Req.
j. Z. WightnGn III Baltimore Aneri-