davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17

City Of Washington, County Of Washington, So:
/. CHAS. S. BRADLEY, cashier of the
above.named bank do solemnly swear that
the above statement Is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief
CHAS. s. BRADLEY, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of May. 1880.
!. FENwfCK YOUNG, Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
DANI. b. CLARKE
~ o. G. GREEN,
JAS l.. NORRIS, Directors.
JOHN T.. HERRELL,
THOS. L. WAGGAMAN,
WIN. II. RILEY,
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17
CRITICULAR.
A suMMER coNuNpRuM.

SUMMER CoNUNDRuM
Oh, say, can you tell
What's o man to do
Who has lost all his cash on the races,
And who notwthstand
Ing's expected to
Send his wife to the summer places
A MAY BUD.
Now is the time of budding blooms,
OF lily and Of rose;
'Twould also be the time Of thaw,
But there is nothing froze.
A Massachusetts, baby's cradle is called a
Plymouth Rocker.
The hen has never been banished, al
though she is a famous "egg-sile."
"What means those lonesome lawn settees,
With no one sitting onf"
"Oh, that's all right" the maiden said,
because they are for-lawn,"
MS INSTRUMENT.
~ cannot play on the banjo, sir"
He said, with blush of shame;
But braced right up and said: "You bet,
can guitar all the same"
The following parliamentary ruling is for
warded to this column for the benefit OF the
several candidates for Speaker of the next
House, as well as the members generally:
"smith: Where's that five dollar bill |
laid on the table yesterday mornineY'
Mrs. Smith: Why, you don't expect to see
that bill again, do your
Smith: Why, certainly!
Mrs. Smith: Wen, you must be losing
your mind. You ought to know, as agood
parliamentarian, that bill laid on the ta-
bic in the House is, according to Gushing,
the last OF it.''
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17
DIED

VAN DEVENTER.- .-On May 10, 1880. at 2
SS9ek % van a. & Mary GatEerae ts wS OF
age.
Funeral will take place on Saturday morn
Dg,May 18, at 10 o'clock, from No, 1917 Sixth
invited TO attend without further notice,
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17

NoaAN OR WOMAN can afford to be with
out VOLTS Acme Blacking.
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17

A LEXANDRIA FERRY AND RIVER EX-
N .CURSION.
Two Saloon Steamers. Every hour from
o. m. to 7:15 p. IN.
IL MILES ON THE POTOMAL FOR 15c.
Free Excursion for Babies See Schedule.
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17

HOl FOR GREAT FALLS AND CABIN
III JOHN BRIDGE.-Steam Packet EXCEI.-|
SIOR makes her regular trips on Sunday
High It. and Canal, Georgetown. at a. m.
Will commence April 81 Fare, 50c., roun6|
trip.
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17

"The sensations of jury service on n
murder case are decidedly peculiar"
said a man who served on the Colbert
case. "At least they were so in my
case, wouldn't go through 1t again
for anything in the world The doubt
that is IN your mind through the trial;
the recollection of the oath you have
taken; opposed to the feeling of horror
at causing the death of a fellow being,
are enough to throw almost any man
into decidedly uncomfortable mental
state. When you come down out Of the
iury-room you are prepared for the ver
diet, guilty as indicted" yet when the
foreman pronounces them shock goes
clear through you. I've no doubt that
there are many cases in which the prls
oner feels less emotion during the trial
than the jurors do, for they have passed
through so much In the affair that their
sensibilities have become blunted, while
the juror Is strung 10 the highest ner-
yous pitch Of responsibility.
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17

~ cannot play on the banjo, SIR"
He said, with blush of shame;
But braced right up and said; "You bet,
can guitar all the same"
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17

In every public Office the chief is
likely 10 be unpopular with some of the
employees, and the Government Printing
Office under the late administration
was no exception to this rule. When
the Public Printer went out of Office
the employees all filed past him at the
door of the Office to shake hands with
him and bid him good by. Some, how.
ever were disposed to withhold this
symbol of friendship and kept up stairs,
declining to go out until the hand,
shaking was over. But they all shook
hands just the same. When the pro.
cession was moving some of the EN-.
ployes who wanted to see the
friendly demonstration unanimous,
noted with CONSERVATION the fact
that some of the employes-most of
them ladies--were absent Strategem
was the only resort, and the fire bell on
the upper floor was soon tinkling with
ominous reverberation The frightened
ladies made rush for the stairs TO es
cape the supposed flames, and at once
found themselves members Of the hand
shaking procession, What could they
dor They shook hands, OF course; and
IL was not until some time had elapsed
that they realized that they were the
victims of ruse. The Public Printer
never realized IT,
The Washington critic., 1889-05-17

MAY BUD.
Now is the time Of budding blooms,
OF lily and Of rose;
'Twould also be the time of thaw,
But there is nothing froze.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

THAT horrible railway accident at
Hamilton, Ontario, in which twenty
four lives were lost, was caused by
the breaking of an axle on the engine.
There may have been no human pre-
science that would have prevented
that, but there was danger in running
at the rate of forty miles an hour over
the rutwOrk of frogs and switches
where the accident occurred. This ac-
cident nearly equals in horror the
great Des Jardin canal accident of
thirty years since, and occurred with
in few rods of the same place.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

BLAINE is making capital for the
country by minding his department
and tending very closely to business.
He is not making capital for the de-
mocracy, hence this screed from the
Houston Post:
From being an extremely laxative man
Blaine las become II remarkably silent man.
Th5re are depths of disgust in this life TO
which even the big vocal chords of jim Blaine
cannot reach.
There is no occasion for republicans
feeling at all disgruntled. The as
sertion of Blaine's disgust is all graft
tuitous. The president of the United
States and his secretary of state have
no disagreements, and the: disgust is
not in Blaine's mind, but in the brain
of the democratic editor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
THE Waco Day speaking of the one
mandatory in that city says:

THE Sladen-Kirksey wooden mills paid en-
ployes another $1,000 last evening-wages for
a weeks work. Those dollars were widely
distributed last night they went to the gro
Ger, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the
milkman, the tailor, the shoemaker, the mil
liner the doctor, the landlord in a hundred
different direction last nght. Does it neeo
argument TO show the helpfuIness OF manu-
featuring Industries to community Inc
cotton mill enterprise should not lag ana
anguish. Suppose Waco bad half dozen in
dustries like the wooden mills. We tremblf
TO think what prosperous community this
would be-
There is a whole lesson in manu-
featuring ethics in that item. 1t
shows what one manufacturing plant
in city will bring in to its trade.
WacO's wooden mill pays 100000 an
nually, beside the amount disbursed
for raw material and the business
created by the plant for railways,
machinists, etc. One hundred thousand
dollars in clean cash going every year
into the pockets of the merchants Of
that city. San Antonio has let OPP
pOrtunities 90 by within the last
three years for putting in manufac-
turing plants which would, if inn
proved, added Sl,OOO,OOO annually to
the trade Of this city. 1t is about
time that a change came over the
spirit of her industrial dream.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

The Austin Dispatch need not
apologize for any advocacy of educa-
tional qualification for suffrage. 1t
will find all good republican journals
in line with that movement. Educa-
tional qualifications, and at least
residence of full five years in this
country on the part of aliens. This is
little enough.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
WEDNESDAY, MAY. !. 1899.

The Grafton of Chauncey M. Depew
at New York yesterday was a master
ly review of the political history of this
country from the hour of the drafting
of the bill of rights by the colonial
congress until the hour in which
Washington assumed the headship
of the nation he had saved, and be-
came its first president. His clear ex-
position of the disintegrating forces
then at work and the elimination of
those forces in the great struggle
Of 1S6l-1S65, places all that matter
distinctly before the American people
of today, as no other speech of this
half century has done. The immortal
services rendered by Washington,
not so much in the field as in the
crystalization of the disintegrated
forces of the confederation into a ma
tional union, were forcibly portrayed
and the eloquent tribute to his great
worth and wisdom was grandly equal
to the great occasion. Any synopsis
of so thoroughly digested a speech,
which would cover at least fifteen
columns of the LIGHT, is out of the
question. 1t will rank among the
great speeches of the republic, not for
its originality of thought, but for its
clear cut, incisive, plain and elo-
quent array of the causes leading to
Washington's inaugural and the
transparent view it gives of the char
acter of the man who was in truth the
"Father of his country"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

COTTON and cattle promise good re-
turns in Texas. Cotton is higher than
for several years; the refrigerator and
cold storage shipments of meat from
Galveston will raise the price of cattle
throughout Texas, particularly fat
cattle, and the very best place to mar
ket corn in this state is inside the
stomach of thrifty CRASHED three
year-old steer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

Four Hundred Acres In City Limits
We offer for sale for short time valuable
tract of land consisting of 400 acres all fenced,
with plenty of water, just outside the city
limits; every foot of it can be cultivated, good
roads leading to it. This is a very des iraole
bargain; the land is worth double what is
asked for it.
A FAMILY CARRIAGE.
A second hand family carriage, almost as
good as new, at a very low figure.
TWO SODA FOUNTAINS,
All complete, and in good order, can De
bought at one-half of first cost.
HAMILTON. HADLEY Co.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
bedcover.

THE prohibition movement seems to
have worn itself out. The attempt to
carry Massachusetts and the failure
of that supreme effort taken together
with the great falling off in the vote
last fall, and the benefits everywhere
arising from high license all tell the
same story-the failure Of prohibit
ton.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

THIS is May let but the little girl
did not jump frisking out Of bed at
dawn singing "I'm to be queen Of the
May, Mother; Pm to be queen of the
May" The thermometer down to
fifty and a cool norther blowing knock
that kind of ointment under warm
bedcoyer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
III 8 SOS 5 OOIs 8 90 SIS O0I $50 90 s54 90

Legal advertisements 81 90 per inch first in
ertion rs cents per inch each Subsequent nser-
ton. Trustees sales 81 90 per inch first inser-
ian, IS cents each insertion afterwards.
Reading matter, editorial page, IS cents per
inc each insertion. Local columns 20 cents first
Insertion; 10 cents first week, 5 cents after first
week. Special rates on so and 100 lines running
for month.
Home advertisements payable on the first Of
each month. Transient advertising payable n
advance Only metal cuts printed
Special rates given on larger space and long
time advertisements. Discount given for cash.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

LAREDO keeps on booming her ad-
vantages, and capitalists from the
north keep coming down to the bor-
der land and exclaim that the half
has not been told them. Laredo is
also moving for more railway lines. as
would appear from this extract, taken
from the Times Of that city:
Messrs }. P. Nelson, chief of construction,
aud d. Flemming, locating engineer OF the
Arkansas Pass railway, arrived iii Laredo Sun
day, overland from Kennedy Junction. They
have made rough inspection Of the proposed
line into this city, and Mr.. Flemming informs
the reporter that he will begin the prellIni-
nary survey about a week hence. Mr.. Nelson
left the city yesterday morning for Corpus
Christi, and Mr.. FlemmiDg starts back for
Kennedy Junction today. This looks Ike bus
mess and some of the citizens OF this city pre-
dict that the Arkansas Pass will be into LAREDO
in six months.
The Gate city is getting there, and
she deserves to, for she has put money
and brains and printers ink into the
work of booming the town.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
THE vow OF WASHINGTON.
BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.


| TRead in New York, April Both, 1889, at thu
Centennial Celebration of the Inaugural
ton of George Washington as the frs
President of the United States.
The sword was sheathed: in Aprirs sun
| Lay green the fields by Freedom won;
| And severed sections weary OF debates,
| Joined hands at last and were United States.
| O City sitting by the Sea!
| How proud the day that dawned on thee,
| When the new era, long desired, began,
And, in its need, the hour had found the man
| One thought the cannon salvos spoke;
| The resonant bell.towers vibrant stroke,
| The voieeful streets, the plaudit-echoing
| halls,
And prayer and hymn borne heavenward
from st. PauFs!
| How felt the land in every part
The strong throb of a nations heart
As its great leader gave, with reverent awe,
His pledge to Union, Liberty and Jaw.
That pledge the heavens above him heard,
That VOW the sleep of centuries stirred;
In worldwide wonder listening peoples bent
Their gaze on Freedoms great experiment
Could il succeed? Ofhonor sold
And hopes deceived all history told.
Above the wrecks that strewed the mournful
past,
Was the long dream of ages true at last?
Thank God the peoples choice was just,
The one man equal to his trust,
Wise beyond lore, and without weakness
good,
Calm in the strength of fawless rectitude!
His rule of Justice, order, peace,
Made possible the worlds release:
Taught prince and serf that power is but
trust,
And rule, alone, which serves the ruled, Is
just;
That Freed IN generous is, but strong
In hate of fraud and selfish wrong.
Pretense that turns her holy truths to lies,
And lawlesS license masking in her guise.
Land of his love with one glad voice
Let thy great sisterhOod rejoice;
A century's suns DER thee have risen and
set.
Ard. God be praised, we are one nation yet.
And STILL we trust, the years to be
Shall prove his hope was destiny.
Leaving our flag with all it's added stars
Unrent by faction and unstained by wars !
Lo. where with patient toll he nurset
And trained the new set plant at first.
The widening branches of a stately tree
Stretch from the sunrise to the sunset sea.
A nd in its broad and sheltertng shade,
Sitting with none to make afraid,
Were we now silent, through each mighty
limb.
The winds of heaven would sing the praise of
him.
Our first and best!-his ashes lie
Beneath his own Virginian sky.
Forgive, forget, o true and just and brave,
The storm that swept above thy sacred grave!
For. ever in the awful strife
And dark hours of the nations life,
Through the fierce tumult pierced his warning
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

THE Fort NJ. Kavitt Breeze informs
the public that "Texas has 25,0O0,0 900
acres of pine timber" That means
very nearly 40, 900 square miles of pine
tim ber ed lands, or about 200 miles by
200 miles. The Breeze has evidently
blown some extra figures into its cases.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

INTOXICATED on the exuberance of
its verbocity'' is good. 1t is about as
good as innOcuous desuetude. Cleve-
land is credited with the latter, a
Texas editor from the rural districts
coins the fret and dedicates it to the
morning paper of this city.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

THE Effel tower in Texas is taller
than the Effel tower in Paris. In the
French capital the great tower rises
to height of 978 feet. but the Texas
editors have added 200 feet to theirs
and made it l ,178 feet. Great is Texas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
At a Bargain.

Two fine building lots near West
End on Alazan creek. Size ITO ITO
feet. Price S4OO for the two.
$4,000 VIII Buy
A fine block of II lots on Prospect Hill,
near street car, and has water works
pipes laid 10 same. 2-25-tf
II. B. JOHNSON,
2-25-tf At the LIGHT Office.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

Announcements for State and County officers
Ten Dollars in advance.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

H-An contracts or bills must be approved by
the Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
TEE LEADING HOTEL IN THE
SOUTH. WEST.
ALAMO PLAZA, SAN ANTONIO

Having been thoroughly oYerhauled and
renovated throughout is now the laTgestand
most complete Hotel in the Southwest. Fine
billiard and bar rooms attached. Hot and
cold baths. Large sample rooms for COM
meTcial men. Patronage of the travelling
public solicited. 10-5-6m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
TO CORRESPONDENTS

All communications for this paper should be
accompanied by the name of the author, not
necessarily for publication, but as evidence of
good faith on the part of the writer. Write only
on one side of the paper, in plain hand. An
onymous communications will not be noticed
The LIGHT will not be responsible for the state
ment ofits correspondents.
All communications for publication, or per-
tanning to the Editorial or Local News Depart
pents, should be addressed "To the Editor of
.he LIGHT"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01

ere."
That republican office seeker was a
native of Illinois who had drifted
into Texas for office.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
A WEEKLY journal of this state re-
marks, as though it were curiosity A:

The Houston Post announces serial story
from Cne of the Texas republican Office seek
ers in Washington, entitled why we are suck
nrc
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-01
SPECIAL OFFERINGS.

2-25-G
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-11

s23i; Westminster Presbyterian, $3.50; seccsA
Presbyterian, s11e; First Presbyterian Sunday school,
&is3 FIRST Baptist, 300. Tho total contributions
IN Elizabeth now amount to 1880
A eantata entitled The Dairymsfs supper Wa
given by the young people Of che coegate Reformed
the Johnstown sufferers. The march Of dsirymsn
and darymalds In which about fifty young people
took part. was under tho direction OF Lyman N,
Jones. Tho receipts amounted to about ESQ.,
Port Jervs, June 10 (spcoiaD.Por. Jervis has cunl
trbuted 81 800 10 the fund for tho Conemaugh Valley
Princeton, n. j., June io-The Princeton Colieu
nino and picked nine from the town played game
to-day for the benefit of the Johnstown fund Tbs
gamo ended IN favor Of the college nine BY score Of
ID to 0. large sum was obtained.
Carbondalc June 10 Special -Carbondalew send
about 81, 500 TO Johnstown and several boxes Of cook
ing utensils and clothes and cook TO wfTansx
port and Lock Haven.
Bordentown, N. J., June lo.-Ths city forwarded to-
day TO Drexe Coof Philadelphia 81 $50 os collscte
In this city for tho Conemsugh Valley. Ono hundred
and twenty dollars collected In st. Msrys Church hors
yesterday will be forwarded 10 Bishop Farrell az
Trenton to be disposed Of
Chicago, June lo.-The Johnstown fund VS. ins
creased 20 s9o,6S7 this morning There Is no doubts
but that lt VIII go over 100000
oswego. June 10.-At q meeting here to-nighs
1850 was raised for Johnstown
Colunbis g. c., June io.-coiumba's contributors
10 tho fund for Johnstown. Is now eIios besides q
car load Of clothing and provisions sent today. !,
Bnghamton, n. Y, June l0-This city has sent
1900 10 the Conemaugh Valley. large quantity
Of clothing and provisions has also boon sent.
Utica, ~ T., June 10.-Udcas subscription to thu
Johnstown fund now amounts 10 $500
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-11
DANGEROUSLY INJURED IN SUNDAY FIGHT

DANGEROUSLY INJURED IN SUNDAY FIGHT
Joseph Rnmenelll and bis brother Rocco. two Ital.
lans who live at No 5i1 Fast One hundred and fourth
ST., wep assaulted sunday night mar their homo and
the former was dangerously injured The brothers
were attached by four Ave men. who appear TO have
drunk Just enough b. mako them anxious for q night
Tho police say the rirslcAders ware John Reilly,
twenty two years old Of No Gos East Onehundr"i-
and-cighth ST. and 4 man named McKennA The ItaL
ians were stoned until Josrphs skull was fractured
and Rocco was badly injured Doth men arc now in
The Presbyterian Hospital.
Policeman Dennerien, Of the Twonty-seventh Pre-
cnct caught Reilly Tho odlcer was followed BY a
constantly Increasing crowd. which began Eouins him
Donnerlon hurried hts prisoner into Firstave car.
and the mob Ffddlrd the windows with stones. Help
came and stephen Brav, nineteen years OH of No S21
East One hundre and eyenf hist, was arrested for
siouo throwing. lie hed yesterday for CT Amina
ton by Justice white, IN the Harlem Court Reilly
rpmandod.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-11
CHINESE sugDAY.scHooLS ON 4 PICNIC
PUPILS FROM Ngw.YoRK AND oTsEE CITIES
r,yYnO -rturMsrrvrs AT IONA ISLAND.

PUPILS FROM NDw.YoRK AND OTHER CITIES
ENJOY THEMSELVES AT IONA ISLAND.
The Chinese sunday-schools of Ncw-York, Brook
pp, Jersey City, Newark and Long Island City
went on the steamer Grand Republic yesterday to
fcns Island where they held their seventh annual
pgcnie. About 200 persons were on board, haif
the number being the Chinese pupils, and the Others
thcir teachers and friends. The trip up the HUDSON
vas cnvencd by the setting of Of innumeraoie hre-
crackcs. when the island was reached, amer
dolirh,f.ty COOL ride II some four hours, luncheon
was seized, after which religious exercises, consist
tng Of prayer, songs and short address oy the ReV
Or Kkider we're held. Various games were piayea
during the day. the Chinese youths giving an exh'et
ton Of kte-ayng, and tho Americans having base
bad match. At p. m. the return trip was ooguh'
ara when the boat reached her pier the Cinnamon
voted the American picnic highly entoysole nsti'
tuition.
Among the Sunday schools represented at the picnic
xere those OF the Fffty-slxth street Methodist Eps
sonaa Church, the Mount 0livet, Eleventh btrees,,
Ftr<t Twepty-thirG Street. and Spring street BapusI
churches Of New York, and the washington Ayenue:
xfh Avenue and Pieropont Street Baptist churches OF
BROOKLYN. 60.