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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
They Said FareweIl.

A delightful impromptu farewell
reception was given last night in
honor of Mrs. Fannie Smiths depar-
ture tomorrow for visit to points IN
Wilson county. The friends of this
lady assembled at Capt. J. s. Ram
SAYS residence on East Commerce
street and with Artzt's string band
for the music, a merry evening was
passed away in dancing. Among
those present were Capt. and Mrs.
Ramsay, Col. Rucker and family, J. p.
Flynn, of Laredo; Mr.. and Mrs. III. A.
Blair, Misses Bean, Allie and Angie
Moritz, Mile Matter, Blanche Rus
sell, Grundy, Lizzie Jackson, Edna
GiIlis, Josie and Lula Benavides, of
Pleasanton; Mary Haueisen, Lizzie
Smallwood, Fannie Scruggs, Miss
Reed, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. McErwin,
Mrs. Babcock, Miss Ida Perner, Mr..
and Mrs. Deane, Miss Brown, and
Messrs. Geo. McHardy, w. Spear,
Harry Williams, ALI. Haueisen, E.
Grundy, T. Folz, Emil Frank, Joe and
John Truax, Ed. Walsh, Newt. Smith,
w. B: Smith, f, Caldwell, Afleck and
Breitling.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12

The officers of Elk lodge, No. So
Knights of Pythias, We're installed
last night in Pythian hall, for the en-
suing term. District Deputy, J. P.
w. Street was the installing officer,
and the following were duly and prop.
erly invested with authority:
VIM. Holt, c. G.
Geo. d. Roemer, V. Z.
l.. Hagy, Prelate.
Paul Prefer, NJ. of A.
John H. Bolton, l. G.
j. Lawrence, 0. G.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
THE LEADING HOTEL In THE
SOUTH. West.
ALAMO PLAZA, SAN ANTONIO

Having been thoroughly Oyerhauled and
renovated throughout, is now the largest and
most complete Hotel in the Southwest Fine
billiard and bar rooms attached. Hot and
cold baths. Large sample rooms for COM
mercial men. Patronage of the travelling
public solicited. l0-5-6m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
RunaWdy,

Mr.. Henry Berg's buggy horse ran
away with the buggy yesterday after
noon and tore down SOledad street,
narrowly missing lady and gentle
man in buggy in front of the court
house. They escaped by driving on
the courthouse sidewalk. Continu
ing down the street the horse dashed
into the Main plaza, collided with
hack and tore Oh down West Com
merce street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
Postal Changes.

The postmasters at Austin and San
Antonio, Texas, will dispatch through
registered pouches to ST. Louis, Mo-,
via the Palestine and Laredo r. p.
o., leaving san Antonio at 500 a. m.
and Austin at II a. m. Pouches to
e forward via the Palestine and La
redo, and Texarkana and Houston aud
ST. Louis aud Texarkana II. L. Os,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
Water,

High water and booming creeks
are playing havoc with the track and
trains of the Southern Pacific railway
west of Del Rio and about Maria and
Ballantyne. Three or four bridges
west of Del Rio are gone and from
Ballantyne east on this side the
water is banked up in almost solid
lake. A train came through yester-
daV.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
Parties PROPERTY Raised
He walked Home.

City inspector of weights and
measures, Mr.. A. T. Stevens, while
going his rounds near San Pedro
springs yesterday morning, with a
new horse, was suddenly left behind
by his horse running away. He was
thrown out, but not hurt, and has not
yet heard from his horse or wagon.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
DR.. R. NJ. MAYES, DENTIST,
$50 ACEQUIA STREET So

Full sets teeth, Whites, JuStis, and others
So gold filings, Is cents: amalgams, ce-
ments, and gutta percha filings, 80 and p
cents. Teeth extracted 80 and p cents. The
best of work done, cod I'm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
Weather Bulletin.

WASHINGTON, July 12.-Forecasts
for Eastern Texas, fair, warmer,
southeasterly winds; for Arkansas,
showers, warmer, southeasterly winds.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12

The coolest and most popular resort
in the city. Concert every sunday af-
ternoon and night, By the U. 5. mill
tasy band. 5-2i.4m FRED KERBLE,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-12
Twins Burned.

At 224 East Houston street. Sum-
mer being here, you want to pro-
vide yourself with one of those gaso-
line stoves that have no superior nor
equal.
We sell the "Twin BUrnern and
guarantee them simpler consequently
better than any other yet produced !;
guarantee quicker baking oven than
any other in this market; guarantee
no smell nor taste of gasoline in pastry
or meats baked in our ovens. We have
the best, come and see twill bake and
cook for you to convince every one.
H. SCHULTzE, JR., 224 E. Houston.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
Curious Minerals Found in Utah.

Included in the mineral resources of
Utah, apart from its precious metals, are
deposits of alum, some recently dicover-
ed veins OF which are eighteen inches
thick and several hundred feet in length,
of dazzling Wilderness and great purity.
Beds of nitre are also found sufficiently
pure to readily fuse when thrown
on hot Goals. Ozokerite or natural min
eral wax, a rarity elsewhere, is found
here in large quantities. 1t is air, acid
and water proof, and can be used for i'm
parting these qualities to other substan-
ces. AS an insulator it is said to be per-
feet, and would doubtless be found a
superior insulating material for electri-
cal appliances. 1t could also be adopted
as the base for cheap yet desirable paw
ing material and for indurating piles
and posts to prevent decay. A some
what similar discovery is gilsonite,
found, on analysis, to contain about so
per cent. of carbon and asphalt in pure
FORM
OF the latter vein has been discover
ed three feet wide and over mile in
length-a supply that, if worked, would
be found almost ineXhauStible. AS is
now well known, the Great Salt Lake is
an immense, hmitless magazine of salt,
that can be readily obtained in any de-
sired quantity by the simple process of
evaporation. From this lake vast guam
titles of sulphate of soda are also Sc
cured, blown on shore at certain tenn
peratures by the winds, where hundreds
of tons are often piled up in single
night, that can be utilized in the cheap
production of sal soda and carbonate of
soda
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
A Wheel 1GO Tons in Weight,

The largest wheel of the kind ever
made in this country, and probably the
largest of any kind, is now in course of
construction at the machine shop of the
Dickson Manufacturing Company, in
South Scranton, Pa. It is what is
called sand wheel, and is being made
for the Calumet and Hecla Copper Com
pany of the Lake Superior region. The
great wheel will be fifty-three feet in
diameter and several feet wide, and the
company will get $4,000 for it. 1t is
being built around atwenty-inch hollow
shaft of gun metal, and it will weigh
between $50 and 100 tons when COM
pleted. When the great wheel is put
in place at the copper mines it will be
made to revolve slowly by means of
enormous cogs on the surface of its cir
cumference. These cogs are being cast
in segments and will weigh many tons
in the aggregate. On each side of the
mammoth wheel there will be fifty
buckets, each of which will hold about
100 gallons, and these buckets Will ele-
vate the washings and dump them in
sluiceway. After the great wheel has
been built up and the finishing
touches have been put on, it will be
taken apart and shipped. Every piece
will be numbered, so that there will be
no trouble in putting the wheel to-
gether, and it will take eight or ten cars
TO transport it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
Railroad yaIuatiOn9.

The suggestion has been made that
the next United States census ought to
make q careful inquiry into the actual
cost of all the railroad mileage of the
country with view to making public
Just what the true basis of charges
should be on different roads. The idea
Leader, and it ought to be carried out
to the minutest detail practicable. The
result, if the work were done by honest
and able men, would be of great value
in opening the eyes of the country to the
extent to which railroad stocks and
bonds represent water, and to the
essentially fraudulent nature of the COM
mon practice of Western companies
which capitalize prairie mileage, where
grading for the road-bed is like making
q common turnpike, at $500 or $780,
900 mile.
The true cost is not more than $40, 900
or So, 600 a mile at most, and yet the
public is asked to pay or per cent.
interest on the securities" which rep
resent nothing but the expense of hay
ing them printed. The railroads of the
United States pay altogether too well
upon their actual cost for Wall street
magnates to be willing that the real
state of affairs should be made known,
and the investigation proposed would
undoubtedly be embarrassed in every
possible manner. 1t ought to be at.
tempted, nevertheless, and if it is begun
we hope that only first-class men will
be put in charge of SO important a
branch OF the census work
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
French Police Appalled, by Mob.

The French Police are not at all
effective in managing street mobs
When they have an overwhelming show
of military in Paris they can keep the
people in check, but when the ordinary
police force or municipal soldiery are in
sole charge, the officers are entirely in
efficient. When Boulanger took his seat
in the Chamber a great crowd of about
fifty or sixty thousand people assembled
near the bridge which crossed the Seine
to the Chamber of Deputies. Then, as
now, the Partisan authorities underesti-
mated the strength of Boulanger with
the populace. They supposed that there
would not be more than casual gather
ing of thousand or two of people, and
there was small force of police on hand.
1t is proverbial that big crowd of
Frenchmen is likely to develop into
almost anything, and perhaps the nerv-
BUSINESS of the police was not without
cause. They tried to keep the principal
drive from the bridge to the Madeline
open, and made a thousand other efforts
to keep the crowd in order. After the
first hour, however, they were absolute
ly powerless, and all the available mem
bers of the force were called together
and placed in a groupe at the entrance
of the bridge. They decided to hold
that point at all events, and to keep the
crowd from rushing across the river.
After time Boulanger's carriage came
along. He received magnificent ova-
ton, finally passing through the ranks
of the police to the bridge. There, after
an immense effort, the authorities sue
ceeded in holding the mob back, but
their success was very closely allied to
failure. Half dozen New York police
men would have held the bridge with
ease, while several hundred Frenchmen
were almost carried away. There would
have been great many broken heads,
perhaps, but then that seems to be a
speciality of the New York force.-N. Y.
Star
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
The Women Did II.

On one OF Che most stormy, di5aereeabl6
days Of the year, nearly seventeen thousand
noble, patriotic women of Boston went to the
the mothers wives, and daughters of this
country have taken up the broom of reform
and done surprising work for tt Q interests OF
their children and families
Although over twenty thousand Roston
women registered, hardly anyone save the
women themselves believed they would &C
tually vote.
This proves that every year new avoca-
tions are OF cning where women demonstrate
tn ,ir ability, as vel as capability, to trans
act business for themselves and make
money.
Women living near a village or large town
can make many dollars pin money" every
year raising poultry and eggs. Mrs. James
L. Burgess Nashua, n. H., says she cleared
last year, from only IL hens, 1860 for eggs
alone. She could have cared for leo hens
easily, and made ten times as much. She
attribut( her sutc IS to the use of Sheri-
dams Condition Powder to make hens lay
There is no doubt that Pow der is great
help. The manufacturers have for years Of
fered cash lremiums to consumers, and
proof of what we before said of women is the
fact that every year, woman captured one
of their larger premiums This year tho
first premium is $50 in god, and we should
not be a bit surprised if some woman got it.;
il not, she will get lot Of eggs to sell from
using the Powder. Mrs. Mary J. Glenn, Of
Rustburg, Va, says: Before using SheIi-
dams Powder l was getting from 40 hens, 5
to eg gs per week; during eight weeks. while
using it, I got from the same hens IS! eggs"
]. S. johnson & Co, 20 Custom House St,
Boston, Mass, the only makers of Sheri-
dams Condition Powder to make hens lay
will send, postpaid. TO any person, two rs
cent packs of Powder and a new oultry
Raising Guide, for 0 cents. The book alone
costs 25 cents. For 81, five packs of owder
Rnd;a book; for sl.20, large "a pound can
md book; six cans, s., express prepaid.
Send stamps or cash. Interesting testimon-
las sent free.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
A Rabbit that Whips Dogs.

There is large white male Angora
rabbit that hops about the Rambo House
stable yard that eXcites considerable at
\ tention from the fact that, instead of
seeking safety upon the appearance of
any strange dog in the yard, it at once
becomes pugnacious and attacks the in
truding canine. The rabbit was as
timid as any other representative of its
species when it was placed in the yard
several months ago to keep company
with large handsome st. Bernard dog
shat is Familiarity known by the name of
Topsy. A friendship sprang up at once
between the two, and their daily romps
together surprise every one visiting the
hotel.
The other day a well-known physician
entered the yard accompanied by very
large dog. He saw the rabbit and dog
at play and was greatly surprised and
amused to see the rabbit catch the dog
by the throat and shake it vigorously
He expressed doubts that the rabbit
would attack his dog i'll the same man
ner, and upon being assured it would,
urged his dog on. The dog made a
spring mt the rabbit, which was on the
alert, and secured its favorite grip upon
the dogs throat, where it chung, midst
the howls of the dog, until compelled to
let go its hold, -NOrrist0wR Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
Something About St.. Thomas.

Correspondence of the Picayuns says:
The name of the little city on the island
of st. Thomas, Danish West Indies, is
Charlotte Amelia. It was once strong
hold of BluebeaId's pirates, who for
years were the terror of the West India
waters. The port is very easy of access,
and is a coal supply station for a number
of vessels of all nations. 1t is supplied
with a large floating dry dock for the re
pair of disabled ships. 1t is the central
point for the distribution of mails for
all the West India ports. Its length is
thirteen miles east and west, with the
average breadth of three miles. There
is mountain ridge extending the whole
length of the island from l, 400 to 1,500
feet high. To the south lies the island
of st. Croix distant forty miles, and
Porto Rico thirty miles to the west. 1t
was discovered by Columbus in 1893,
during his voyage to the West Indies.
The island is now inhabited principally
by Danes.
A strong garrison is maintained here
by the Danish government. In 1867
there was strong talk of the island
being purchased by the United States,
but through some serious obstacle the
negotiations were not concluded. The
island and st. Thomas forty years ago
and now are totally different. Then the
island was dotted over with palatial
houses situated on immense tracts of
sugar cane. Sugar, molasses, rum,
fruits and certain kind of lumber
were among the exports. The town of
Charlotte Amelia, the capital, flour
ished and clusters of houses with
their brilliant red, flat roofs which arose
(the houses are low and all built of n ma
tive ss.IIslstonSi the roofs are made of the
same material painted red or given
coat of whitewash; these stones are cut
entirely ~ hand, and the
houses stand for years, every
poor man has his stone palace from the
SUBMITS of three hills projecting from
the sides of a dark range of mountains,
forming noble background, and is still
a marvelously beautiful sight. No finer
picture, it has been truly said, for an ar
fists pencil exists anywhere than this
little town, which descends to the
waters edge lined with wharves and jet
ties. But, with the abolition of slavery
in 184S the planters and most of the
merchants left and sold out. The mag
nifcent country houses and plantations,
once the pride of the country, are now
used, some as coal kilns, and others for
purposes too numerous to mention. Of
late years the island has been slowly but
surely regaining its lost prestige. The
island is an excellent resort for those
troublediwith Bright's disease and should
be visited only during the winter
months. A few months up in the
mountains cannot fail to prove benef-
cial. The population of the island is
10000. There are plenty of good schools
and, under good local government, ed
ucation is making rapid strides forward.
-PttaYune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28

Twas nigh twelve o'clock when they
all got gone, an we hustled off to bed
fast as we could. We all overslep' our
selves mex morning, an Pipes was as
cross as two sticks. He is powerful
somniverous in his natur', and it don't
never agree with him to lose his naterel
sleep.
"Car'line Arvilly Julianny, says he
an see he was riled-"don't you never
AK me to hev another play-party the
longest day you livel Them nags that
was tied in the door-yard has nigh about
skun the bark off of every tree they are
tied to-" says he. can the wagon
teams that was hitched to the fence has
pulled it all to flinders, an broke half
the rails in two. I've got to maui some
more rails, an lay the worm all over fur
about ten rod, d" says he. can the boys
an gals hev tromped the best room
carpet full of holes, and broke the rungs
out o the Boston rocker, an stove in
the head O that molasses-cag, an bu'sted
two lights O. glrss in the front winder,
besides leavin' the bars down so't the
hogs got into the corn-shocks an EFT up
more corn than their necks was with.
1 don't mean the hogs necks, but the
SitlS all DONS says ne. AL ItOu
you say party to me ag'in, not if you
live to be older'n Methuselah's cat,
says he.
"Paw," says Car'line, 'I'm powerful
sorry they barked the trees, an broke
the rails, an stomped holes into the car
pet, an stove the molasses-cag, and
broke the cheer-rungs, and busted the
winder-ights. But twas all did unbe-
knownst to me-" says she. "An'-an',
paw, John Wesley DusenbeTy poppos-
ed to me last night in the pantry, an
we're a-goin' to marry on st. Volunteers
day." says she. you'll give us we'd
din, won't you?'
She amt nobuddy's fool, our Car'line
amt. She knowed, as well as the mex
un, that her paw was desput sot ON see
in her an John Wesley make match
O. it. But Dan Toadybush has been
sort O. shyin' round her fur a spell back,
an John Wesley hadn't never spoke his
mind before.
An you'd oughter of saw Pipes when
she tole him that
It staggered him so you could of
knocked him down with pin-feather.
But fur all he was SO surprised, an as
tickled as rat with q cheese-rind, all
she could git out of him was: ''Ax yer
NAV, Car'line. Eff she's agreeable, I'm
agreeable"
But we amt never he'd another party,
an don't never callsilate to hev.-FTGnk
LeSlie's.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
The Manufacture of Brushes.

"The manufacture of brushes" says a
gentleman who is interested i'll provid-
ing employment for eX-convicts, "seems
to have been especially destined by
Providence to aid us in our branch of
charitable work. With probably but one
or two exceptions, this industry pos
sesses the unique feature of being left
behind in the great race of mechanical
improvement. The ingenious inventor
and his almost human machinery have
never circumvented the task of sticking
the bristles i'll the holes prepared for
them in any other satisfactory way than
by hand. AS the knack of doing this
by hand is easily learned, and as the
demand for brushes is IA pretty constant
quantity, a chance is afforded us to sup
ply work to men who have just been re-
leased from Jail until they can get bet
ter paying jobs. Machinery, of course,
is brought into use in turning out the
backs and handles of the brusees, but a
first-clnss, durable brush is otherwise oil
hand made, "-Nev York Ia~-"""s
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28
A Prussian's Capacity For Beer.

''Talking about beer as an intoxi-
can't" said Lawyer c. NJ Hardy in q
chat with party of friends yesterday,
reminds me of case I had years ago.
I am sor1,y to say was beaten in it, but
1 did the best could, and it was not
my fault that l lost. A big brewery had
engaged bright young man to drive
one of their beer wagons, and had dis
charged him without warming. He re-
tstIned me to sue for wages, and Thought
/ had good case. The defence was that
he had not lived up to his contract
that he was instructed ut head quarters
to treat every one in the places where he
delivered beer, and that by ten q. M,
after doing as directed, he was beastly
drunk. The brewer was asked what lie
expected of driver, and he said his men
should be capable of drinking 100 glasses
of beer each per day. Along about 4 p. m
all expert was called by the defense. 1
had declared it physical impossibility
for a young man to drink 100 glasses of
beer and remain sober. The expert was
big six-foot Prussian who was civil
engineer. He was asked if he knew any
thing about beer-drinking, and he said
he had drank beer since his birth He
was askkd then how much he usually
drank in day Objection was raised,
but the judge, who was good natured
old fellow, said he would like to hear of
the mans capacity. Il usually drink
eighty glasses of beer a day. said the
Prussian. The old judge adjusted his
spectacles, carefully looked the witness
over and said; Have you drank that
much to day2' The man said he had.
DO you know you are under oath2' asked
the incredulous judge. L have had
thorough christian education, said the
Prussion, with Il sweeping bow. And
that's what lost me my case. / think
beer an intoxicant.- Chicago Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28

Why, how cod and sick you seem! Oh, my!
can it be! Yes, you are Lizzie my own lost
child. Thank God that you are home againm
And what a time of rejoicing there was in
that house that night! And Christ again
stopped down, and in the ashes
of that hearth, lighted up
not more by the great blazing logs than by
the Joy of a reunited household, wrote the
same liberating words that He had written
more than eighteen hundred years ago in the
dust OF the Jerusalem temple. Forgiveness!
A word broad enough and high enough to
let pass through it all the armies of heaven a
million abreast, on white horses, nostril to
nostrii flank to flank
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28

CARDINAL GIBBONS to the prisoners
of the Maryland Penitentiary: 81 was
in prison myself six years. They
call d it college, it is true, bat it was
not much different from prison. The
discipline was as rigid, if not more so,
than at West Point. We had to go,
whether we liked it or not, at the
sound of O Tell to our meals, to bed,
everywhere. The first night I was
there / asked where l was going.
There was solemn silence ut my
question. l only knew / was going to
my little bed till the next morning.
We had the same round of lessons,
marching III procession, and services,
day in and day out, al the six years.
We wore y black uniform, and had to
obey strict discipline. Ard yet,
whatever / have learned Of theology,
history, and other matters, I attribute
to the work of those six yea1s.p