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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Wilson's MinStreIS.

Never since the opera house was
built was such an audience gathered
there as last night. 1t was literally
packed from top to bottom. Over
three hundred had to stand up.
George Wilson never fails to draw
heavy and the company he has with
him this year are the best and strong
est he ever had. From first to finish
it was continued laugh all over the
house. Such thing as a chestnut
was a total stranger. Wilson him
self took prominent part, and he
never was better; that's, saying
enough. Billy Carter is still shin
ing star; in fact, Wilson has enough
stars about him to make a milky
way. The performance opened with
a grand minstrel festival, after which
songs, dancing, jokes, acting, oratory,
and little of everything that was
funny was given.
Swift and Chase, in their comical
musical act, was the best thing out.
Billy Carter and his banjo cut big
swath in the fun. Any criticism of
it would be like trying to reproduce
a painting by Rubens.-LeXington,
Ky Press, September l, 1888.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
ANTONIO, TEXAS MONDAY, FEBRUARY II. 1850

confer with President Harrison upon
the matter of Federal appointments in
Texas.
Quite number of "previous" office
seekers were present with petitions it
is true, and there was an exchange
of recommendations on the part Of
about one-half of the committee tn"t
reminded one very much of q lot of
Maine school girls swapping spruce
gum, but it seemed to tickle them and
certainly did no harm, as such testi-
monials, when understood at Wash
ington, will not be worth more than
the paper upon which they were
written.
The committee has met and its
work as committee very properly
performed, and the whole matter Is
now at rest. Had not the committee
been called there is every reason to
fear that some self selected commit
tee intent on controlling the federal
patronage of the state would have
met and brought the name of the
state into disrepute by such action.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Patents Granted

To citizens of Texas during the past
week, and reported for this paper by
G. A. Snow & Co., patent lawyers, OPP
posite U. S. patent office, Washing
ton, d. c.:
J. NJ. Stukes, Aguilases, corn she'll
er and wash board.
J. ". Storey, Cotton Gin, self cool
ing journal box.
Zach B. Norman, Honey Grove,
dental chair.
Wesley G. Jones, Waxahachie, gas
retort.
w. Behan, Texarkana, feed device
for gin saw sharpeners.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
STATE NEWS.

The town of Cameron is quite on a
boom.
The Casino club of Boerne is in
augurated.
Gardening is now the order of the
day at Baird.
The town of Goldthwaite is improv-
ing continually.
An clipping couple from Luling were
married at Seguin few nights ago.
Georgetown thinks of petitioniDg,
the legislature to extend her corpo-
ration.
Three negroes are arrested at San
Augustine for the murder of Sofa
Watts.
The contract is let at TeXarkana for
the erection of an elegant new brick
building.
A tourist on an excursion train on
the road from Ell PasO to Sierra Blanco
died of heart disease.
The past few, days have given the
farmers at Mesquite a chance to do
some oat blowing and sowing.
The city council of Laredo has set
aside block of land for city hospi-
tai and block for pest house.
The directors of the I. d G.. n. are
in Palestine, and it is believed the
road is about to pass into the hands of
a receiver.
Mrs. Clark Kelly who was so terri
bly, burned at DenisOn has died of her
injuries. Her lower limbs were literal
ly roasted.
The question of whether or not to
build a $4,000 school house is agitat-
ing the minds OF the property holders
at San Marcos.
Samuel Garrett, freight conductor
on the Southern Pacific, at Beaumont,
was caught between an engine and
tender and crushed.
Sheriff Danford has arrived in
Waco with J. f. Childress, alias J. l..
Adams, arrested in Corsicana, wanted
for embezzlement in Vicksburg.
An organization of White Caps have
been notifying residents Of San An
gelo that they must mend their
morals, or they will be called upon by
the fraternity.
Mr.. Brazeale, of Cleburne, bet his
mule against Smiths horse that he
could pull two sacks of salt three feet
at the end of rope 600 feet long. The
mule carried the sacks 100 feet. Smith
is out horse.
The management of the Dallas fair
is waiting for the citizens to invest in
the $4,000 second mortgage bonds. 1t
is necessary to secure this amount be-
fore work on the fair of 1889 can pro-
coed.
Bill Jennings, a fine black race
horse, owned by Clay Mann, of Color
ado City, while on the race course at
Abilene, suddenly became stiff in
both hind legs. 1t is feared he cannot
enter the races of the 18th.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
PERSONAL,

L. Miller, of Marion, is at the
Mahncke.
P. d. Sauer and Judge Reinhard, of
Boerne, are registered at the Mahncke
hotel.
w. G.. Butler, of kennedy, is at the
Mahncke.
Mr.. Patrick Henry Tansy, of Hous-
ton, is in the city.
Hon. James H. French was unable
to attend any Of the meetings Satur-
day or Sunday, on account of his ill
ness.
Misses A. Martin and Kate Mitchell
left this morning for Waco, on a short
visit to DR.. and Mrs. G. C. Mac Gre
gOr, of that city.
Mr.. Chas. NJ. Hopkins, a well
known hardware man of New York, is
in the city being chaperoned by the
Little Joker.
Mr.. Henry Semlinger is in the city
from Houston, where he has been en-
plOyed by the l. & G. n. railway.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Horrible Tale of a Deserted Wife.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Feb. 11.-Julia
Maher, 56 years old, died this morn
ing in miserable house, in Webster,
of paralysis. The case is particularly
horrible, as her husband had given
the woman no care after she became
incapable of doing any more work
The neighbors say she was left alone
and the rats ran in the hovel and
gnawed at the woman's extremities
while she lay yet alive, but unable to
drive them away. The flesh was
badly eaten from her thighs and even
the face had been attacked. The
police heared of the affair and induced
the neighbOrs to watch the woman
while life remained, until death came
to her relief this morning.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Cotton Crop Returns,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE cotton
returns of department of agriculture,
make an average at the close of the
picking, six days later than last year,
on account of later maturity and fire.
quent rains. In many counties in the
south, the crop has been fully har-
vested. Careful completion of returns
make proportions marketed 84:3 per
cent
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Paris: Exposition 1850.

Parties desiring to go to Paris, will
find it to their advantage to join the
excursion of the Texas Industrial and
Agricultural association, which will
be conducted personally by the di-
rectOrs of the association, who are
familiar with the language and GUS
toms of the French people, and who
will take care of the wants of its pa
irons. We are agents for all trans
Atlantic lines, and are the only ones
organizing an excursion to Paris. Do
not be misled by parties claiming to
make a speciality of European travel,
but if you want correct information,
call on or address us at our office, 4l0
East Houston street. 2-9-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Stormy Sympathy With O'Brien.

DUBLIN, Feb. 11.-Wm. O'Brien
was conveyed from Colnemel to Ira
lee Jail this morning, under a strong
guard of military and police. At Clon-
mel, the escort was attacked with
stones by the crowd, which had gath
cred to witness O'Brien's departure
The police charged the crowd, using
their battons freely. At Tipperary a
large crowd surrounded the railway
station and resisted the efforts made
to dispense it.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Severe Earthquake Shock.

SAN FRANCISCO, February IL
News comes from San Jacinto, Little
Mountain. on the extreme northern
part of San Diego county, that an
earthquake shock few days ago was
so severe, that a dance in a large
hall was broken up, and two hundred
people present sought safety by jump
ing through the windows. Many
were trampled under foot, and others
were cut by broken glass, but none
were fatally hurt.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11

Duel by Which the Innocent Suffer.
GRANT CITY, Mo. February ia
duel at short range took place here
Saturday night, between Rollo Wal
ton, young desperate of twenty-one
years, and City Marshal J. q. Bal
bridge. Walton had threatened to
kill the marshal, and when the latter
met him in bar room they opened
fire simultaneously. Walton was
killed and d. A. Martin, a by-stander,
was shot so seriously in the arm, that
the limb had to be amputated; the
marshal was not injured.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Old Friends Met.

Some years ago when Mrs. H. A .
Blair was a little girl, her sister,
Sophie Flora Hebron was one of the
most popular artistes on the lyric
stage and her deceased father was a
we'll known impressario. The family
lived in Philadelphia and were in
very friendly relations with the
charming Lolita. Last night Mrs.
Blair and Lolita met again and had a
brief but pleasant chat over old times,
present situation and future pros
poets.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
An Ungrateful Wretch.

MEMPHIS, February 11.-Father
Ashfield, priest of st. Peters Catho-
lie church, this city, was stabbed to
the heart this morning by a crank
named VIM. Reed. Father Ashfield
had befriended Reed, having procured
his release from Jail.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Death of a Prominent Catholic.

Death OF Prominent Catholic.
New YORK, February ia cable
gram to the Catholic News, this city,
announces the death of Cardinal John
Baptist E. Pltera, who was second in
rank in the sacred college. He was
born at Champa Ferguil, France, Au-
gust 1st, 1912. He was made cardinal
March 10Th, 1868, and was one of the
six suffrage bishops of the Roman
pontiff.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Boulanger'S Opinion.

PARIS, February lila Presse
denies that General Boulanger in a
recent interview said he favored the
establishment in France of constitu-
ton similar to that of the United
States
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
An Old Official Dead.

WASHINGTON, February 11.-Col.
Henry J. Hunt, (retired) governor OF
the Soldiers home in the District of
Columbia, died at 1920 o'clock this
morning.
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Paris Exposition 1889.

Join the Texas Industrial and Agri-
cultural associations excursion. Book
early in order to secure good berths.
For rates, ETC., apply to 40 East Hous-
ton street. 2-l1-2Ot
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Died.

February S-Manuel Brasino, aged
26 years, railroad man, killed by lever
of coal shute striking him, under in
vestigatiOn by coroner. Margaret A.
Peters, aged II years, bronchitis,
stranger, had been in the city only a
week. Sista Gansaba, aged II months,
pneumonia, buried at the third mis-
sion.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
Ready Made Made Suits.

Orders taken for ladies suits, sam
pies of goods and trimmings from
Louisville, KY, on hand at $50 Ace
quia street. Also dress cutting ,and
corsets. Call after II p. m. 2-l0-6t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11

"A large audience last night well
coined the production, "He, She. Him
and Her. at the Grand opera house
last night. All were amused and well
pleased. 1t will be repeated tonight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Associated Press Dispatches and
Specials Up to the Hour
Going to Press.
Weather Bulletin.

WASHINGTON, February 11.-Indi-
cations for Eastern Texas: Fair,
slightly colder, variable winds.
For Arkansas: Fair, colder, north
erly winds.
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Earthquake in Great Britain.

LONDON, Feb. ia shock of earth
quake was telt today at Bolton and
Manchester. No damage was done.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11

Otto Blumenthal keeps the cele-
brated Rogers silver ware. LETT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-02-11

All successful candidates smoke
the Little Joker tobacco.
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COMMITTEE NOTES.

If there was one thing more plain
than another, inside and outside the
committee room, it was that Texas re-
publicans did not intend to send any
man or set of men to Washington to
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-28
Ask For Ayers

Sarsaparilla, and he sure You get Il.
when YOU want the best blood-puriher.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-28

This is what you ought to have, in
fact, you must have 1t TO fully enjoy
life Thousands are searching for it
daily. and mourning because they find
IL not. Thousands upon thousands of
dollars are spent annually by our people
in the hope that they may attain this
boon. And yet it may be had by all.
We guarantee that Electric Bitters, II
used according to directions and the
use persisted in, will bring you good
digestion and Dust the demon Dyspcp-
sin, and install instead Enpepsy. We
recommend Electric Bitters for Dys-
pepsia and all diseases of Liver.
Stomach and KidneyH. Sold at soc. and
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-28

CHURCH OF CHRIST AT G. "HAPEL
~ Services at IL "a m Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at 1880
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-28
ozzvEo1r prrnoroR-r.

Al ETH JDlST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
w Services alternately at 1895 a, IN, and Z
p m. Rev. & w. Barnum, Pastor. Sunday
School at e p m g. Cooper, Supt.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-28

Agents fa NUE Echo are wanted
everywhere .,non liberal terms.
Iron County register., 1889-11-21
Suit Against the Standard Oil Trust.

New YORK, Nov. 14.-The suit of
George Rice, the Marietta (O.) refiner,
against the Standard Oil trustees to
compel the issuance to Rice of six
shares of Standard Oil Trust stock now
standing in the name of J. B. Mallaby,
was begun in the Supreme Court here
yesterday. Mr.. Rice bought the stock
in 1888 from Mallaby, but delivery was
refused. The Standard people take the
ground that Rice's object in buying the
stock was to obtain a right to inquire
into the inside operations of the trust,
intending to use the information in suits
against the trust and ultimately compel
the trust to buy his refinery, which he
values at $780, 900. Mr.. Rice denies that
he wants to sell the refinery, and says
that all he wants to-obtain by litigation
is equal freight rates.
Iron County register., 1889-11-21

by them for business lone by them IN
the State annually. Until the last Leg.
islature changed the law, they only paid
tax OF one per cent upon the amount
of premiums received in the State after
deducting their losses in the State
The road and canal fund is moneys de-
rived from the Government from the sale
of public lands in the State, tho Gov
ernment giving to the State two and
three per cent. of the amount received
from the sale of public lands lying in
the State of Missouri. This money is
divided between the counties in the
State equally for the purpose of making
roads and canals.
The militia fund is derived from the
sale OF old arms and is used for the pur-
chase of new when ready.
Earnings of the penitentiary is fund
produced from the labor of the convicts
confined therein, and is semployed entire
ly in the support of that institution, in
cluding the construction Of new build
ings. Thus far this year the institu.
tion has subsisted from the earnings,
and in addition, new building worth
about $4,000 has been built from said
fund, the only expense paid by the State
this year for the penitentiary being the
pay roll of the guards and employees.
The amount of the earnings is about
$500, 900 annually.
Iron County register., 1889-11-21
THE IOWA ELECTION.

The Returns Indicate the Election of tho
Entire Republican State Ticket Except
Governor-The House a Tie-Six Repub-
Iican Majority on Joint Ballot.
CHICAGO, Nov. ia Tribune special
from Des Moines, Ia, says: Returns
come in slowly, but the full vote has
been received from eighty-four counties
and they give Poyneer, the Republican
candidate for Lieutenant-Governor a
total of 149, 442, and for Bestow Oem.)
las, sos. The remaining counties are
estimated to give Poyneer a slight ma
jority. AS he has the smallest vote
on the Republican ticket it is certain
that all the others, including Supreme
Judge, Superintendent of Instruction
and Railroad Commissioner, are elected
by majorities ranging from 1000 to 1000.
The official count in Monona County yes
terday show that Democrat is elected
to the Legislature by 1 majority, thus
making the House tie-ffty each
and the Senate will stand: Republicans,
2s; Democrats, %, Republican majority
Of six on joint ballot.
Iron County register., 1889-11-21
pITH AND Poigsr.

1T takes money to be fashionable.
| The poor man who gets into the SWIM -
liable to get out Of his depth.
The man who gives the shortest
measure in this world will want the
longest harp in the next.-The Golden
Perhaps.
Good qualities, like great abilities,
are incomprehensible and inconceivable
to such as are deprived Of them.-N. 4.
Ledger.
II to do were as easy as to know
what were good to do, chapels had been
churches, and poor mems cottages
Princes palaces.
"A mans ideal girl Is one who does.
not know she is pretty, and then ne
.spoils his ideal by telling her she is.-
Atchison Globe.
"A man may be very great and very
good, and then not attract the attentlon
that a horse-thief does.-MilwaukeeA
journal.
With some men all the dollars are
copper cents when spent for themselves
and gold eagles when spent for their
families.-Farm journal.
ALI our plans don't get worked out
the way we expect they will in this
world, and it is mighty lucky for us too,
that good many of them don't-Som-
ervin Journal.
Mental alertness is a valuable quail
ty; but there is certain commonplace
sturdiness that is not at all brilliant,
but which is indispensable to prolonged
self-maintenance.
"A monument has value only as that
for which it stands had value. Unless
our lives are lived worthily, the more
completely those lives are forgotten, the
better it will be for our memory--S- s.
Times.
The reading man is the successful
man, as rule. He knows just how fast
the world is progressing and he knows
the methods of progress. A man can
not keep up with the procession unless
he knows what road the procession is
going.
Each man is required. to do some
thing in behalf of the moral interests of
his community. He will do this, Of
course, if he be good man, by the force
of his example, but it should be part OF
his effort in life, positive and deter
mined.
III IS comforting 10 Feau SoIuetihoS'
that even the best men of the past, and
such as are now held in the highest
esteem, had special and often great in
firmities. 1t is blessing, too, that
biographers have been honest enough to
record them.-United Presbyterian.
The secret of good talking is to have
something to say, say it well, cut it short
and be ready to listen. The best talker
who will not listen is bore and nui-
sance, and so the verdict is given against
him every time. To know how to be
silent in many languages is great ac-
complishment possessed by few.-Wheel-
ing Intelligencer.
Iron County register., 1889-11-21
ZETETIC PHILOSOPHY.
one of Its Disciples Tries to Prove That
the Earth Is Flat.

one of It's Disciples Tries to Prove That
the Earth Is Flat.
The Zetetic philosophy, which proves
absolutely and without shadow of
doubt that the earth is a plane and not
planet, has in it no theories, but estab-
fishes its conclusions upon facts, alone.
Many of these facts are of such nature
that not to know all about them will
soon be deemed a sign of ignorance.
The people should know that the sur
face of standing water is level, whether
it be in the form of a pond, a lake, a
canal, sea or an ocean, and that it
makes no difference at all how many
people, in consequence of false teach
ing, believe it to be curved;
that in no surveyors operations
in the construction of railroads,
tunnels, or canals is any allowance"
made for the CURVATURE of the earth's
surface, although the books tell us that
it is necessary; that the view from
balloon in the air is that of a fiat earth
and not of globe; that the river Para
quay in 800 miles does not fall foot
that for the last 500 miles the Amazon
falls but 10 feet inches-and. that the
Nile in 1000 miles falls but a foot.
Sailors can see the light at Cape Hat
teras forty miles out at sea, whereas on
the globe theory it ought to be more
than 900 feet below the level line of
light; strain your eyes as you, please,
you can never see ship coming s'up."
for at the farthest distance that you can
by any means see ship it is on a. level
with the eye; the horizon always rises on
and on just as you rise on; if the mariner
were to take ''globe" with him with
which to navigate the ocean he would
wreck his ship; meridans are straight
lines diverging from the central north
toward the south in all directions hori-
zontally-s'parallel of latitude only
are circles-and on globe the pointing
of compass north and south is clearly
impossible; sailing westerly is sailing
round horizontally with the north star
on your right hand, and sailing easterly
is sailing in the same horizontal mode
with the north star on your, left-and
all the money in the United States
treasury would not buy proof of SO
much as the bare possibility of sailing
down globe, under globe, and up the
other side!-Carpenter's Folly.
Iron County register., 1889-11-21

ever made by a trotting horse. Mr..
Bonner's offer for Sunol was made and
was accepted by Governor Stanford be-
fore she made this great performance.
Sunol has also the fastest record ever
made by a two-year-old, she having
trotted last year in 2:1s. The grand
dam of Sunol is by a thoroughbred horse,
as are also the grand dams of Maud s.
and Jay Eye See, thus showing that the
three greatest trotters that the world
has yet produced has thoroughbred
blood, which gives them their great en-
durance, Maud S. having record of
2:0sA, Jay Eye See of 2:1O and Sunol of
2:10]s, when she is only three years old.
Bonner refuses to state the price paid.
1t Is said in sporting circles to be S110,-
900.
Iron County register., 1889-11-21
CHANGE OF COMMANDERS.

The Rock Island National Armory and
Arsenal to Have New Commander in
the Person of Colonel James NJ. White
DAVENPORT, Ia, Nov. 13.-It is pri-
vately announced that change of COM
mandants at the Rock Island National
Armory and Arsenal is soon to take
place. Colonel Thomas G. Baylor, who
has heen in command since June.
1856, is to be transferred to
the Frankford Arsenal, near Philadel-
phia. The new commandant at the
Rock Island Arsenal is Colonel James
M. Whittmore. He is native of
Massachusetts, graduated from West
Point in 1860, and during the war rem
dered distinguished services. During
the years 1865 and 1866 he was in COM
lnand of the arsenal at Indianapolis,
was assistant commander at Watervleit
following, and later served al command
ant at the Kennebec and Frankford
ArSenalS.