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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-11

THE pitiabIe plight in which XII
rain finds himself nearly sixty hours
after the mill is a complete refutaron
of all rumors that the battle was not
fought for blood. The punishment
that KiIrain received would have
killed a man less hardened to endure
punishment, and Sullivan was man.
ifestly frightened when lie heard q
rumor of KHrain's death, knowing
what severe sluggiug he had endured.
Jake could not dress or put on his coat
unassisted on last evening and
showed every symptom of beng a
very badly u sed up man.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
nlsPArcnEs OF YESTERDAY.

About 700 quarrymen at Joliet, Ills,
went on a strike for an advance of %
cents per day in wages.
An order has been sent to New York
for the shipment TO Europe of gold bars
70 the value of $500, 600.
Count Herbert Bismarck gave a dinner
TO the commissioners of the Samoan con
ference and members of the American
and British legations.
At Blair, la, man named wetwioh,
shot his wife and three children, and
after setting fire To his residence aud
burning them up shot himself.
The directors of the Chicago and East
ern Illinois railroad have declared a
qoarterly dividend of / Il per cent on
preferred stock stock, payable june ist.
Word has been received from South
Africa that Lord Walter Campbell, third
son OF The Duke of Argyle and brother of
tbs Marquis of Lorne, died there of
fever.
At n banquet at Baltimore in honor Of
Capt. Murrell of the steamship Missouri,
the grand lodge OF masons presented
him with n gold medal in further recog-
hlttOn VI MS ttINANfN III EtHtuiUk VINO
passengers of the Danmark.
Four children we're burued TO death in
a house at Baltimore. A family named
Williams retired about 10 o'clock.
An hour later the parents
were awakened by neighbors and found
tho bnilding in flames. The parents Ca
capped with serious burma; the baby will
die from the effects, and the other four
children were burned to crisp.
Gen. MERIT, yesterday sent the follow
ing telegram TO the adjutans general;
Everything Is quiet in Oklahoma ter
ritory. anticipate no trouble in the
country from any cause, but will in the
event of any disturbance return TO Okla
homa. | propose later, to withdraw part
of the troops in the territory"
Today was not a busy day with the
president, as there we're but few callers.
Among those who visited him wer.
Senators Ingalls, and Plumb, Rep
resentatiyes Baker, Buchanan, Craig,
Finley and Cannon; Judges Schofeld
and Weldon, of the court OF claims; Rep
Iesentative Evars, with Col. A. y. Collier,
of Nashville, Tenn, end United States
Minister Ryan; Thomas Adamson, consul
general at Panama; X. s. Mckee, Of
Worthington, Ind; j. Il. Gosport, Ind.
Among the appointments made today
were tho following: To be United States
attorneys Samuel w. Hawkins, OF Ten
nessee, for the Western district Of
Tennessee; John Ruhm, OF Tennessee,
for the Middle district OF Tennessee; Do
Alva s. Alexander, of New York, for the
Northern district OF New YORK.. TO be
United States marshals-Joshua b. Hill,
OF North Carolina, for the Eastern dis
triot Of North Carolina; Carter b. Har-
rison, of Tennessee, for the Middle
district Of Tennessee; James W. Brown,
of Tennessee, for the Western district OF
Tennessee.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09

methods of producing it, and who i'm
sgine that if by some calamity all their
fires were extinguished they could never
kindle them.
Such tribe has recently been met by
DR.. Finsch during his travels in New
Guinea. He says the people IN the large
villages that are buried in the forests
along the shores of Astrolabe Bay know
Of no means by which tney can produce
fire. 1t is therefore DUTY devolvipg up
on every mt mber of the community to
aid in prese- vIBg fire. All their cooking
is done outside their huts in the open air
but in the center OF each hut Ia a FIRE
place, and II is a crime to permit the
fire to go oat. They use a hard wood
that burns very slowly, and their aim is
to keep good bed of Goals on winch the
wood burns without bursting into flames.
DR.. Finsoh asked the natives il they
never lost their fire. II was tolo that
such calamity had occurred, and that
they would never had fire again if it
had not been for very fortunate circum-
stance. They know q tribe in the noun
tains aWay from the sea who possess the
art of making fire, which they guard as a
secret, One time the people were com
PEELED to go to these iremakers for the
park that would rekindle the dead EN-
bers in their huts. They carry the fire
for many miles. They we're determined
never again to be reduced to this necessi
ty, though It made them feel very com
Portable to think that they knew where
they could get fresh fire if they lost their
own.
1t is to be presumed that these sim pile
minded natives have now ceased 10 guard
the smoulderipg embers in their huts
with such jealous care. 4 white man has
been among them, one of the sort who
brings blessings instead of evils in this
train, and they know now that even If
they ever see a white man and the won
oerful llttle fire sticks he carried with
him again they can, with the aid of
friction and finder, be their own fire
makers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
Old Time Punishment for Drunkenness
Newcastle Chronicle

Drunkards, metropolitan periodical
has just pointed out, are more mer-
oifully dealt with in the present than in
past days In classic Greece such offend
era were subj eeted TO the seVerest penal
ties. In Athens Scion punished them with
death; Lycurgus, in Sparta, destroyed the
vineyards in his territory and took every
preoaution 20 prevent the transmission
of habit of inebriety from father 70
child. In Loeris wine was permitted only
to ipvalids, and at Mitylene Pittacus
doubled the punishment OF any crime If
1t had been committee under the iuhu-
ence of wine. In republican Rome the
citizens, both men and women, we're for
hidden to partake of wine before they
had attained the age Of 80. in Medieval
times the same severity obtained, and
Fraucis l., though himself no model king,
published In 1886 an edict 10 the effect
that every one found drunk should be
imprisoned with bread and water diet, for
the hrst offBuse, beaten with rods for the
stcond, for the third publicly whipped
and, if he then proved iucorrigible, pun
ished by having an ear cut Of, marked
az infamous, and banisheI.
1t might be added that ia much more
recent times topers had anything but
pleasant treatment in our own district
about the middle OF the seventeenth cen
fury the common drunkard YRS lead
through the streets OF his town as a
spectacle Of contempt. covered with a
large barrel called the Newcastle cloak"
one end OF which being removed served
to enveIop the body OF the upluoky Bao
chanal, while the other end, circular
aperture being formed, admitted the head
Of the offender, by which means the yes
sci rested upon his shoulders. Much as
the suppression OF drunkenness is to be
wished, recourse 70 the methods OF the
past seems scarcely calculated TO promote
that desirable contamination.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09

to us by the varying time CONGREGATIONS
of its parts. But as yet our knowledge
of stellar movements is miserly scanty.
They are apparently so minute as to be-
some percepdble, il general, only
through observations of great precision
extending over number of years. Even
the quickest moving star would spend
POI years in crossing an arc of the hea-
vens equal 20 the disk of the full moon.
Yet all the time towing TO the inconoeiv-
able distances of the objects in motion)
these almost displace evanescent dis
place ments represent velooites in many
cases so enormous as 20 battle every at
tempt TO account for them,
According 70 the contemporary, "run-
away stars" are no longer of extreme
rarity. One in the Great Bear, known as
"Groombridge 1880" invincibe TO the
naked eye, but sweeping over at least 200
miles each second, long led the van of
stellar speed; Prof. Pritchard's photo
graphic determination of the parallax of
CassiOptla shows, however, that incon-
spicious object not oaly to be a sun
about forty times as luminous as our
own but TO be travelling at the prodigious
rate of Toe miles while DR.. Elkin's re.
suit for Arcturus gives it a velocity of
little less than 400 miles-a seoond
The express" star of the southern
hemisphere, SO far, is one of the fourth
magnitude situated in Touoan. Its speed
OF about 200 miles second may, how
ever, soon turn out TO be surpassed by
some of the rapidly moving stars picked
out for measurement re the Cape. Among
them are Home pairs drifting together,
and presumed therefore TO be connected
by SPECIAL physical bond, and to lie at
nearly the same distance from ourselves.
This presumption will now be brought to
the test.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.

pr. Calling has patented new gun
metal, composed of steel and aluminium,
rbicb is said to be of remarkable
strength.
Scientists say there is no plant that
does not serve as food for some animal;
but the only article ured as food from
tie mineral Kingdom is salt,
Sleep impairs the action of drugs and
nelson's. Persons il state of "melan-
cholia" are less susceptible TO the action
of poisons than others.
The National Telephone Company of
Scotland has several submarine cables of
seven, eight and nine miles in length,
which give perfect satisfaction.
A writer in the ST. Louis Globe is look
ing hopefully forward TO the time when
the walls, ceilings and floors of our
dwellings will be of mslleable glass as q
period when appro INNATE cleanliness
will be possible.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
The Farm aud Home.
ENDURANCE
HANPsHIRR GAZETTE.

How much the heart may bear, and yet not
uoR PFg much the hesh may suffer and vet not
die ,
6f soul or body brings our enc more hlgh.
y. 'booses his own time; till that is worn,
All evils may be borne.
vy,.sl,rirk ard shudder at the surgeons knife,
Nrslb nerve recoiling from the cruel steel,
Ne cdse seems scare hing for the quverlng
Vet r. orr sense the bitter pangs reveal
mat still althought the IL milling tiesh be torn,
THIS, also. can be borne
W. soc a sorrow riding In our way,
And nv to flee from the approaching III,
al some sinsIi eSCal eve weep and pray.
F,5t when the blow falls then or hearts are
,-,+ffat The pain is Of its sharpness shorn,
But think it can be borne.
We wind orr life about another life,
We held it closer. dearer than our own;
.,on il fauts and falls IN deadly stiite,
Living us stunned. and striker and alone
r,,-tobI We do not die with these we mourn;
This also, can be borne
Behold we live through all things, famine
parsayen emit pain; all grief and misery,
Al vsgt and sorrow; life ntiicts its worst
an SOM and body. but We cannot die,
7bGugb we be sick, and tired, and faint, and
Lol All things can be borne.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
DEATH BY THE CARS.
A Freight Train Demolishes Coach Killing
Several Persons.

Several Persons
PHILADELPHIA, May 3 A coach con
tanning several persons was demolished
by train on the Pennsylvania road at
Bridesburg crossing, and two OF its occu-
pants, f. X. Womrath and James DUNCAN
we're killed. The accident occurred
shortly after l o'clock this morning. The
coach contained eleven men, members of
a masonic fraternity who were returning
from visit To DR.. Boyer, of Bridesburg
worshipful master of the lodge to which
they belonged. Howard Gibbs, one of
the injured did not belong TO the party
but had been oyertaken Oh the road and
allowed 10 ride with the driver. The
brief delay caused by taking on this extra
passenger undoubtedly had much to do
with the calamity which followed. The
night was hazy, which rendered objects
indistinct, and 1t is supposed the
freight train approached the crossing
unpreceived by thos in the coach. The
engineer when he saw what. had hap
pened stopped the train as soon as pos
sible. Stretched upon the cOwcatcher,
bruised bleeding and iDsensible, was
johnson, the colored driver. square
below the crossing the HORSES we're found
dead and gashed to pieces lying close to
ee,her. The force of the blow must have
Seen terrible for the shoes were torn from
the front hooffs of one of them, and the
other had a leg cut off close TO the trunk.
Further up the track the wagon dash
ed into the timber wood, and was discov
cred in hesp, and few feet away from
il were the bodies of Nombrath and
DUNCAN. Close to them lay their fellow
passengers, Smith and WilRus, who were
quite senseiess, but the others, with the
exception of DR.. Hale and Myers, Ver'
grooming piifully. Two OF the injured,
Samuel Smith. a wholesale liquor dealer,
AMI Frank WilRus, a druggi-t, are ez
peoted to die. The others injured, five
in all, are reported TO be getting along
comfortably.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
Josephine and Nannleon.
JUhtUHIIV dIU NHVUItUU.
Gail Hamilton in North American Review for
April

CAL Hamilton IN North American Review Tor
April
But If n apoleon betrayed his princi plee,
so, it must be admitted, did Josephine
betray her instincts? Napoleon was re-
solved upon the divorce. That she could
not help. Sac could have helped consent
ing 20 it. She had deprecated his as
sumption of the estate of monarch, fore
seeing what it meant for Ter, but 1 find
no shred of testimony that she ever took
her stand upon eternal right and wrong.
| find no evidence that she ever presented
to him, or herself discerned, the imper-
iousness of moral obligation, the inviola-
bic sacredness OF the marriage vow, the
certain duty they owed TO civilization and
Christianity beyond any uncertain duty
of founding a dynamic dynasty. Jose
phine did but as many wives do-threw
all the anguished energy OF her heroism
into conforming her own will 10 the will
of her husband, rather than into conform
ing her husband will to the will of God,
10 the everlasting law of rig righteousness.
Without vulgar contention, without active
participation, by simply refusing to sign
her name, by submitting to be victim
but declining TO become an acconplIce,
JOSE phine wo1ld have preserved the full
dignity of her position. Napoleon would
have completed the divorce, would have
compelled the sacrifice of her happip ess
but he could not have compromised her
self. Her position would have been
commanding. AS it WAS, she did not but
vie with him in his own line, and missed
the great opportunity for great deed-a
helpless but imperial protest against
wrong. She went further. She not only
gave in her adhesion to his will,-which
was not even a virtue, since his will was
law,-but she ran ahead of his will, bought
or sought his continued friendship and
penioLship by taking part, hideous-
ly unbecomipg, in his unholy alliance.
She entertaiutd AMI expressed pref
erence as to ,he wife he could choose, and
ever offered her services TO secure the
Austrian connection; thus demonstrating
that, in the matter of this divorce, her
morale was no higher than Napoleon's.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
WONDERS OF THE HEAyFys.
Curious speculatlons Regarding the Move
ments Of the Planets

Curious Speculdti0ns Regarding the Move
ments Of the Planets
The elder STRIVE made the movement
Of the sun through space to be about FIVE
miles a second, but on the supposition Of
the brightes. stars being between two
and three times nearer 20 Us than they
seem really 10 be. We can now see that
the actual speed OF the solsr system eau
scarcely fall short OF twelve or exceed
twenty miles a second. By q moderate
estimate, then, our position in space ia
changing to the extent OF 100000 900
Of miles annually, aud a collision between
our sun and the nearest fixed star would
be inevitable (were our course directed In
q straight line toward III after the lapse
Of 10000 yearsl
The old problem Of chow the heavens
moye,n successfully attacked IN the solar
system, has retreeted 10 stronghold
among the stars, from which u Will be
difficult TO dislodge it. In the stupendous
m chauiem of he sidoreal universe the
acting forces can only betray themselves
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
WILLSTOp GAMRLlNG.
The Chicago Mayor viii Permit nolMore Gam
bling In the CITY.

The Chicago Mayor viii Permit nolMore Gam.
bling In the City
CmoAao, May 3.-The chief Of police
today issued notices to various precinct
commanders throughout. the city, calling
their attention TO former orders against
gambling, and Announcing that public
gambling would not be allowed in the CITY.
Tonight not gambling house in town
IL running. number have been atted
since the recent municipal election and
several of the more venturesome have
been doing a rushing business. In an
intervisw this evening Mayor Oregier
limited at Wholesale proseo ution for va
granoy.
Some OF the local papers for several
days past have asserted that gambling
houses would before long be permitted
TO resume gradually operations on the
same footing "a before the vigorous
crusade insugurated by Mayer Roche two
years ago.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
SENTENCED BY COURT MARSHAL.

Lieutenant Commander Book Left His Com
mand without Leave
WASHINGTON, MAY Secretary Tracy,
has approved tbs findings and sentence
of the court martial in the case of Lieu
tenant Commander George Book, who
was charged with absentirg himself from
his command without leave. He com
manded "Plnta," and left her at Stka
Alaska, and came TO Washington to induce
the navy depsr mt TO authorize repairs,
necessary to make the vessel seryioeable.
The court found him guilty of charges
and ss approved he stands sentenced TO
"be spsnded for two years from rank
and duty, on THROUGH pay, and to retain
his present number on the iist of lieu.en-
ant commanders during that time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
AN AID To MEMORY.

while you're In the city. Ned,
Won't YOU buy some fifty threadt'
Phyllis asks, and Will / luger,
Tasting that which is the cue
OF him who WINS the bread for two,
She ties some thread around my finger,
Adding, Dear, lest you forget,
III teach you memory's alphabet.
First, the thread suggests a string;
Any string may be a measure;
Wei, say "a yard the very hing
Remembering that will De a pleasure;
A grassy ward (what S ia a nameO
Will make you ttiink of lawn with ease,
And lawn and muslin are the same,
And muSiin's cotton, IL you please.
Now cotton wound. as ] opme,
Is nothing. after all. but thread,
And fifty is your age and mine
I'm sure you can't forget lt Nedg'
/ answer her as best I may.
But now within the shop liuger
What in the dickens dbl She say
About the tring around my tingerl
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
ImportantCases.

CHrcAoo May 3.-Judge Clifford is
hearing arguments in the cases Of the
people against the Western Manufao-
turers Mutual insurance com pauy, of
Chicago 0, for doing business for the Wis
consIu Mutual insurance compsny--a
foreign corporation unlicensed by the
state Cf IlliBois, for violation of the state
Law prohibiting such companies from
doing business directly or by their
agents, In the state.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
A People Who CantMake Fire

1t Is not often that explorers discover
savage people who are ignorant of the
art q producing fire. As far ssi is known
nfe has been necessity even among the
iudt7t sayages for many centuries, and
W alwaJs sxcites wonder when We hear
az rare intervals of PEOPLE who, while
snloying the blessings OF FIRE, express
toe mseives as wholly ignorant Of the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09
VISITED BY FIRE

A Whole Town Fails FIcTlm 10 tbe Flre
Firnd.
DIXON, ILL.,, May g. Foareston, about
20 IN lee north OF this city on the Illinois
Central X. r., was swept by terrible
ooufagation this morning. Aid was tele-
graphed for TO the surrounding towns
and was promptly afforded, the fire was,
with the aid and help called for, placed
under control about noon. 1t originated
in a grain elevator situated near the de-
pot Three business blocks we're entirely
destroyed. Los, SI25 600
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09

How much the heart may bear, and yet not
Nov much the flesh may suffer and vet not
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-29
THE FIRST MATCH.
A "Reminiscences Which Appeals Strongly
70 the sense of the kidiculous.

keminlscence Which Appeals Strongly
20 the sense Of the Ridiculous.
A few days ago gentleman, who is
now something over sixty yeaas OF age.
said 70 me: II well remember the
time when ! first saw match.
was then boy. and was working in
the barn with my father, when a young
man, the son Of neighbOr, came in
with q box in his hand and said he
could now light fire without
borrowing Goals or striking spark
with the flint. Opening the box he
took out one of the matches, which
was three or four inches long and had
D yellow looking substance on one end.
This end he dipped into small bottle
which came in the box with the
matches and contained sulphuric acid.
When the match was put into
the acid it instantly burnt into
Q blaze Although young Grant had
paid fourteen shillings (sl.75) for
his box, which held but fifty
matches, be was quite ready 70 use up
one or more Of the costly fire-makers
ii showing father how the wonderful
invention worked. But father. having
d wholesome fear OF fire, and looking
with some suspicion on any new de-
parfnre from established ways. begged
Grant. II he would fool with chat stuff
- go outside for he didn't want bis
barn burned down, adding, II may BE-
fan to see that 60 OF. butt amt going
II do anybody any good 10 have fire
made IS easy ss tlatF" The old gem
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-29

iace Of IN AngeL ssus Eusulueuly sns
l. pretty Girl. with small features,
and ripe red lips and dark brown hair,
crisp and curly. and white teeth. Her
handsg We'll. yes; a little large. per-
haps. and when she takes OF her
gloves which she will not often do
whom she Is out for a walk with her
lover on the Sunday--one can see that
the hands are not OF the very whitest.
and the tips OF some Of the fingers
show the tattoo-marks OF the needle
for 1t does not need to be told that
Sally Is q seamstress OF some humble
order. / hardly know OF any thing
that speaks to me with keener pathos
than that needle-pierced finger With
Its marks that will never 90 on. Il
tell somehow OF long working hours.
often until the dawn has come and
after Perhaps poor Sally had 10 work
nm extra hour or two into the Sunday
morning. in order 70 earn her after
noon walk abroad with her faithful
lover. ! take II that 1t Is almost al-
wnys an afternoon walk. Sally could
not well get away before her family's
sarly dinner. -Sc,ibner's Magazine.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-29
THE HEN-PEcKED HUSBAND.

How | do pity the man who IL only
a seckund lutenant in hiz family. and
IL liable at emmy time to looze even that
posishun.
He holds the sakred and responsible
offiss ov captin, and yet even the old
gray hous kat in the kitchen dispizes
hiz orders and laifs in hiz face.
When he IL out in the world he sum
times undertakes to assert hiz inn
portanse and dignity, but every boldly
kan see he IL only whissling TO keep up
hiz currage.
Hiz children hay no crater aifeckshun
for him than to pity him, and the world
denies him even that poor tribute and
treats him with disgust
The hen-pecked husband IL tho sad
dest speStakle | kno ov, thare ain't
cnutT. BY him left for emmy one TO luv or
70 hasa