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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-01
Opening and Closing of the Mails.

Northern mails close at 7:30 and 1870 a. m
and 1915 and 6:15 p. m. and 900 p. m. Open
st $50 g. IA, 1900 NJ, and $50 p. m.
Southern mails, via Charlottesville, Virginia,
close at $40 and 11:20 8. m. and 900 p. M.
Open at ESQ and $50 p and 7:3O p m.
Manassas Division mails close at S:2O q. n.
and $50 pm. Open at 1890 3. IN and 7:30 pm.
Southern msils, via Richmond Va, closes at
1890 g. NJ. 44o and 900 p. m. Open at S:45
r. m. snd II m.
Alexandria and Rolnd Hill, Va, msils close st
$50 q. m. and 4:1O p. IN. Open at 800 a. IN and
$50 p. m.
Closed mails to Falls Church, Vienna, Fairfax
U.H., Herndon, Leesburg, Purcellville and Round
Hill, Va, close at 4:10 p. m. and open at 800 an.
Western mails close at 1880 a. M, 12:4o and
800 o. M. Open at $50 and 1000 q. M, and
300 p. N.
Washington, Z. c., mails close ct 7:3O snd 1880
a. r., End 12:45, 4:4O and $40 p. In. Open
~ 49, ud10:0O a. H., 1900 m, and 800 and
$50 I'm.
Office Hours-Open at $50 a, nj. Close at $50
Pr Open at $50 p. m. Close at p. m.
sunday Hours-Open st 800 g. m. Close at
$3.50 s.. m.
CARRIERs' Collections made on g..
trip routes-6:30 snd 1000 g. M, 12:2O
600 and 5:45 p. m. On Strip routs-6:3O and
1000 q. m. and 5:45 p. IN.
Deliveries made st 800 a. m ID m. and 500
sunday-Carriers window open at 500 and
nse at $50 s. M.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-01

IT DID HER GOOD "A young gentleman
called at the house Of friend to spend the
evening While there he asked for glass
of water. which was given him. He noticed
that his friends wife was watching him in
tertly. AS be finished the refreshing
draueht the lady sighed as ehe said solemn
ly at does me good to see man drink
glass of water like that once more" The
silence that followed was painful In thu ex-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-01
THE GAZETTE.
THURSDAY HvENING, MAY 1
Written for the Alexandra dAzETTE.l
The Martha Washington Calico Party OF
the Arlington Club

Written for the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.l
The Martha Washington Calico Party OF
~ the Arlington Club.
BY SAMUEL ADAMS wIGGIN.
Tb.v danced in the parlor of spple bloom,
The air VS. filled with the sweet perfume
which was the sweetest within the room
Lassies or blossoms fair?
Quaint slender figures in calico clad,
Dear loving faces with laughter glad
Cslicoes plain and calicoes plaid
Showing the twinkliDg feet
eprigs of the apple bloom lighting the hair,
Apple bloom decking the bosom fair.
Bunches OF apple bio IN everywhere,
On mantel and pictures all.
Laddies in necktes Of red, plaid or blue,
Like the gown of the lassie his fortune droW,
Wearing her color s like lover true
knight of the calico tie.
They danced to the music Of blnjo and fiddle,
They sang loud chorus OF "Hey diddle, diddle"
The COW and the cat red hot griddle,.
Jumped over the man in the moon"
They sang and they danced, their laughter sweet
Kept time to the cadence of tripping feet,
Quadrille snd lancers, and hook en- tight, neat,
And Virginias rollicking reel.
Mistr IS Martha was robed in calico red
General George wore a wig on his noble head,
Walked with stately air and tread,
Like way back" from old Chain Bridge.
How they danced in tho par:or of apple bloom,
How the air was niied with their sweet perfume'
But which was the sweetest within the room
Lassies or blossoms fair?
April 80, 1890.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-01
r sTABLER & CO.,
WAKEFIELD & HALL,
DRUGG ISTs

Corner Prince and Fairfax street,
Prescriptions specially. English, French
German and Domestic Toilet sosps; Genuine
Farina Cologne Magnolia Hedyosmia, Geranium
and Florida Water Genuine Lubin's Extracts;
Spongos, Hair Brushes and Combs best English
Tooth Brushes full assortment OF Patent Med.
cines, Coxe's Gelatine, Corn Starch Sea Moss Fas
rine; Spices Of all kinds, and select stock Of sl
articles sold by druggists at prices rs low as ths
vame quality can be obtained elsewhere. dec !
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

OFFICE OF PURCHASING DEPOT
c. s.. San Antonio. Texas. JULY 10, 1890
Sealed proposals, in duplicate, subject to
the usual conditions, will be received at
this office until IL o'clock, noon, JULY %,
as, on AUGUST /, 1890, the following
subsistence supplies, viz: 2,7OO pounds
Corn Meal, in new 100 pound seamless
sacks; 1880 pounds Onions, in barrels:
1,SOO pounds Onions, in sacks: $4,000
pounds Potatoes, in barrels: $1,000 pounds
Potatoes, in sacks. Proposals will not be
entertained unless accompanied by sam
piles of the articles bid for Bidders must
state the place of production or manufac-
ture, and preference will be given to arti
cles of domestic production or manufac-
ture, conditions of QUALITY and PRICE be-
ing equal. Blank proposals and further
information can be had on application to
this office. WELLS WILLARD. Captain
and c. s.. L. 5. Army. 7 II ct
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
No Land on Which the Sun Shines

Possesses greater natural advantages
than our own. but there are portions of
the great grain bearing West and fertile
South where atmospheric influences pref
judicial to health initiate against them
in some degree, as places of residence
Heavy rainfallS and the overflow of great
rivers, which upon their subsistence leave
dank vegetation exposed to therays of the
sun, there beget malarial fevers,
and there also the inhabitants are
periodically obliged to use some medi-
cinal safeguard against the Scourge. The
most popular is HoStetter'S Stomach Bit
tiers, a preventive that has for over a
third of century afforded reliable pro-
lection to those whom experience in the
futility of ordinary remedies for fever and
ague, has taught to substitute for them.
Whether intermittent or remittent MAS
matte fevers are conquered and averted
by the superb anti-periodic and fortifying
medicine as they are by no other prepara
ton in use. Use it, and abandon impure
local biJterS. 7-10-6t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
High Flying.
alone.
New York Ledger.

New York Ledger.
The most remarkable balloon ascen-
sion on record was made in 1894 by
Blot and Gay-IIussac, of Paris. By
this enterprise they endowed science
with series of new and important
facts, questionable before that time, as
they carried with them a complete set
of suitable apparatus, and, moreover,
an unsurpassed knowledge of obser-
walton and experiment.. They ascend
ed to height of $4,000 feet, and OBJ
served that at 5000 or 5000 feet the
animals they had taken with them in
order to observe the effect of the rare
fed air and cold upon them, did not
appear to suffer any inconvenience.
In the meantime the pulses of the
two experimenters were much accel-
Grated; that of Gay-Lussac, otherwise
always slow, so beats per minute, was
so; and that of Blot, naturally rapid,
10 beats per minute, was Ill.
At a height of 1000 feet pigeon
was liberated; it dropped down.
whirling through the air as it had
been stone. The air wac too thin
and rarefied to enable it to fly.
Three weeks later Gay-Lussac went
up alone and attained height of
1000 feet -four and one-sixth miles),
or 1000 feet higher than the top Of
Chimboraz Mountain. The barome-
ter was only IL inches high; the
Thermometer 1So Fahrenheit below
the freezing point, while at the sur
fece of the ground it was 500. He
left the court yard OF the conserva-
toire des Arts ct Meters, In Paris.
and, after an aerial voyage of six
hours, descended near Rouen, $50
miles distant.
The result of this ascension on Cav
Lussac's health was very injurious.
partially by want of air for respira.
ton, combined with sudden cold, BUT
chiefly by the absence of the accus-
toned pressure. At the extreme
height of 1900 feet his face and neck
were swollen enormously, his eyes
protruded from his head, blood ran
from his lungs by vomiting; in short,
MS system received a shock from
winch he never fully recovered dur
ing the rest of his life.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

THERE is but one voice that is
uttered by the southern philanthro.
plst in speaking of the colored man.
No matter where heard, on what
occasion spoken, under what auspices,
the refrain is the same-we southern
men know all about the colored man
and you northern men don't. We
must be let alone to work out his des-
tiny for him in our own way. What
that way is does not concern you. 1t
is our concern, and we must be let
alone.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
A CALL
For Republican County Convention. |


In accordance with the published call
for a State Republican Convention to
assemble in San AatoniO on the 3rd day of
September next, the Republicans of Bexar
county are requested to meet in their sew
eral Justices precincts and elect delegates
to a county convention to assemble at
Mission Garden on the 30th day of August
to elect delegates to the State convention,
county chairman, and committee, and
do such other business as may properly
be brought before them.
The primary meetings to elect delegates
to said convention for precinct No. l will
be held on August 23rd at Mission garden
at $3.50 p. m. The republicans of the seven
remaining Justices precincts are request
ed to meet at their respective Justices
precincts on the same day august 23rd)
and elect delegates to said convention.
The basis of representation shall be ap-
pOrtiOned among the several Justices
precincts in the ratio of 100 delegates to
Justices precinct No. /, embracing the
city of San Antonio, and fifty delegates to
the country precincts.
All calls heretofore issued ana pub
liShed are hereby reScinded.
Il. L. WANDER HOEvEN,
Chm. Rep. Elk. Com. BeXar Co.
SAN ANTONIO, July IL, 1890.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
West End Rapid Transit Line.

In order to accommodate the work
men at West End, the Rapid Transit
train of the West End Town COM
pany will leave an hour earlier than
heretofore. The first train will leave
for West End at Z o'clock a. m. in
stead of o'clock as heretofore, from
the corner OF Aoequia and Houston
streets. Last train for Transit travel
for return to city leaves at q p. m.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

An 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.
-shymous communications VIII not be noticed.
Hsnt ofits correspondents.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
Preston's' ed-Ake. ("

T. b. Bishop of 42l Ave. E, San Antonio.
says: Enroll my name among the many
VINO have been relieved by your wonderful
" years. 1t relieved me ia twenty minutes
shall never be without a bottle" For sale
by all druggists, SOC.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

IF San Antonio city council will ar
range to have the streets within an
area of one mile from San Fernando
cathedral systematically sprinkled,
instead of leaving this necessary work
TO private enterprise, the city fathers
will receive the thanks of thousands
OF dust choked individuals.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

FRIDAY is Alamo day at the San
Marcos Chautauqua. The Belknap
Rifles have arranged to go up and
give drill on that day, and thus add
to the pleasure OF the occasion. the
directors of the Alamo Monument
association will attend in body and
they have a very strong desire to see
a large representation of our citizens
present. Hon. Culberson has been
selected as Alamo orator of the day
and Mr.. Louis Workman, also, will
speak on that occasion. The Alamo
city should be well represented, not
only as an evidence of her interest in
the day devoted to her immortal
event, but as tribute of respt ct and
a polite recognition of the courtesy of
the San Marcos Chautauqua in setting
apart day and calling 1t distinct
lively "Alamo Day"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
THURSDAY, JULY II, 1890.

FREE trade nonsense Is about
knocked in the head. The country is
growing wiser as we'll as better.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

TWENTY-oNE railways, with an az
gregate Of 1000 miles of rail and a
capital stock of over $50, OOO, 900, have
been sold under mortgages since jan
uary l, and yet the uninstructed seem
to think that railroad is a mopev
bag, and if it is squeezed money must
come. This country is killing too
many of the geese that lay the golden
eggs.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

BLAND, of silver expansion notori-
ETY., did not vote for the silver bill.
which expanded the currency, hut
tried to down 1t. What will BANDS
constituents say to that?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

THE silver bill is all right and those
who were croaking over the impos ST.
bllity Of the republicans coming TO
any agreement on that measure can
rewrite their verdict.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
TO our EASTERN ADVERTISERS

All advertising for the Daily and Week
~ LIGHT, must come to us through our
special agents, MeSSrs. Palmer & Rev, 232
TO 235 Temple Court. New York.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
THE STATE OF TEXAS, County of Bexar.
County Court in Matters of Probate.
To Iuly term 1900

To July term, 1890.
The State of Texas to all persons inter-
eSted in the Administration of the Estate
Of p. Fl. Ward, deceased. D.. Sullivan,
Administrator of the Estate of P. H..
Ward, deceased. has filed his Final Ac-
count in the County Court of Bexar
County, which will be acted on at the
July Term, A. d., 1890, of said Court at
the Court House thereof in the City of
San Antonio after this notice shall have
been duly published for twenty C20) days
in some newspaper published in Bexar
County, Texas, at which time all persons
interested in said estate may appear and
make objections thereto, if they see proper.
~ WITNESS, THAD.W. SMITH,
JT. = Clerk of the County Court of
L. Bexar County and Seal of
~ said Court, at my Office in
San Antonio, this 18th day of June, A. D.,
$780, THAD. w. SMITH,
Clerk, County Court, BeXar County.
Came to hand June %, A. D., 1890, and
publication ordered to be made in the
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
T. p. MCCALL,
Sheriff. BeXar County;
By w. d. DRUSE,
Deputy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

NEW ORLEANS postal business in
creases So rapidly that st. Louis takes
alarm and cries out against the enor-
NOUS enlargement of the New Or
leans business through the admission
of lottery matter to the mails. If the
mails do not handle that matter the
express companies will.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

ENGLAND does not like the McKin-
ley bill; the United States did not
like the Mills bill. Congress is not
legislating for Europe, anyway.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

Now that the republicans in con-
gress have shown their hands and
given the contry silver bill that
meets general approval, it is in order
to state where Cleveland stands on
this question, since he has changed
his views, according to Vest; or, did
Vest lie.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

THE tariff bill will be agreed upon
and passed by the house and senate
in the same spirit .'r,r,3"om'se that
characterized the uy~n-, 18th the
silver bill. The democrats are not
running congress to any alarming ex-
tent.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

THERE is world of cheap talk
about northern ice trusts. An ice
trust in San Antonio that would fur
nish ice to households at so cents Der
hundred would not be a bad thing TO
take, and many northern cities do
this.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

Our speciaIties - Seth Tbom.s
CLOCKS, Elgln and Watham watches
Bell Bros, Commerce street. S-l4-tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
SPECIAL NOTICES.
n. STARN e s.

DR.. STARNES.
After July Sth, will be corner Hous-
ton and Navarro streets, up stairs.
7-5-1m
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
Ernest Kuehner

String Band will furnish good music
or balls, parties and picnics. Leave or
derS at 3lS corner Pecos and Durango
streets, or Francisco Cara, 513 Concho
street. TILT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
Death.

Death.
Death to screw worms.
Death 10 cutting ants.
Death to reaches.
Death to mosquitoes.
RAGLAND & Co., City Drug Store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17
:ntcn. IDS SOS co.'s OOIsls CO. $50 90 s64 90

Legal advertisements Sl.Oo per inch first in
sertion 70 cents per inch each subsequent in
sertion. Trustees sales 81 90 per inch first in
eertion, % cents euch insertion afterwards.
Reading matter, editorial page, IS cents per
Inc each insertion. Local columns 20 cents frst
insertion; 10 cents first week, 8 cents after first
week. Special rates on 80 and loo lines running
or month
Home advertisements payable en- the first of
eacn month. Transient advertising payable in
ADVANCE. Only metal cuts printed.
=, special rates given on larger space and long
ume ADVERTISEMENTS. Discount given for cash
Announcements FOR State and County officers
TEN Dollars in ADVANCE.
~ All contracts or bills must be approved by
he Secretary and Manager.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

THE meteoric liar is again abroad
In the land. This time he has evolved
from the depths of his mendacity a
meteoric stone eight feet in diameter
which comes crashing in to the wagon
box of an astonished farmer, merely
jostling him out of his seat and pin
ming the wagon to the ground so that
the frightened horses could not run.
Any other meteor but this, eight feet
through and falling from the upper
spaces, would have gone down several
feet into the "inardsn of old earth and
not left a smoking piece of that wagon
bed to tell the tale. 1t was the mild
est hammered aerolite that ever Wis.,
tied Indiana and dropped as gently
as shadow into that farmers wagon.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-07-17

NORMAN MoNRo has builded q
launch, with an entirely new idea OF
boiler service, and which he claims
can run in excess of thirty miles an
hour without heating journals. He
challenges the Cushing torpedo for a
race and thinks the government can
well afford to let the trial come off to
test the merits of the NEW idea"
boiler. This boiler is declared to be
non-explodable and that combustion
continues for two hours after furnace
doors are closed. Her builder claims
thirty-five miles an hour for her. If
she can get away with the torpedo
boat Cushing she is q good one, and
If she can run thirty-five miles an
hour, with closed furnace that needs
no attention for two hours, she must
be Jim Dandy. Uncle Sam wants
just such flyers as that.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-25
WANTS A NEW TRIAL.
JOhnson's Counsel Claim That the Court
Made Several Errors.

In the Criminal Court, Chief Justice Bing-
ham, the counsel for Henry Johnson, convicted
on Friday for manslaughter in killing Enoch
Turner, Mr.. E. C. Darlington filed motion for a
new trial. The reasons assigned-an error in
admitting after the case was closed in chief the
testimony of JohnLewis johnson that he saw the
defendant shoot deceased; an error IN the court
in telling the jury that they were not to be in
fuenced by any tenderness for the prisoner
and his family, which, he says, was calculated
to prejudice the jury and should not have been
made, because defendant had no opportunity
or right to reply, and it is insisted that
jurors should use their hearts well as their
heads and should administer justice III a spirit
of charity.
Even in qualifying the prayers of defendant
and in charging the jury that they had the
right to convict of murder, notwithstanding
the fact that the government abandoned the
charge of murder, il is also claimed that the
court erred in admitting testimony as to de-
PENDANT having been seen with pistol previ-
ously. The motion is also for admission TO
bail.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-25
BEATEN BY HIGHwAYMEN.
/ Man Assaulted and Robbed on the
Bunker Hill Road.

A murderous assault and robbery was COM
mitted about 1880 o'clock this morning on the
Bunker Hill road not far from Brooks station.
The victim was Mr.. Hiram Richey, young
man who lives near the station, and his assail-
ants were three unknown colored men
Mr.. Richey returned home on the last car on
the lexington electric road. 1t was about
1918 o'clock whenshe got off the car near the
Catholic university at the end of the railroad
route.
He started along the Bunker Hill road and
when near the railroad station he noticed three
colored men on the road. Two Of them were
walking behind him and the third one was
ahead of him.
Hearing the two in the rear engaged in con-
versation Mr.. Richey turned his head several
times to watch them. In the meanwhile the
one In front walked slowly until Mr.. Richey
almost caught up to him.
Then. when Mr. Richey made another turn to
look at the two in the rear the one in front
dealt him a stunning blow in the face and
knocked him down. The other negroes then
Jumped on him, beat him and robbed him of 81
In money, penknife and some tobacco.
When the victim of the highwaymen reached
nome his clothing was covered with mud and
sand ana he was quite sore from the beating he
received. This afternoon he reported the facts
to the police and Detectives Horne and Mahon
will investigate the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-25
A RAIDED PRIZE FIGHT.
A Charge That Was Tried I'm the Crimi.
nal Court Today.

In the Criminal Court. Chief Justice Binr-
ham, today the case Of William Northridge.
charged with keeping a disorderly house, was
placed on trial. Mr.. Armes appearing for the
government and Mr.. W. X. Duhamel for the
defendant The latter claimed that the raid
ing of the house and the prosecution was for
the purpose of defeating the defendants appli-
cation for a license. He said that in the Police
Court the judge proposed to allow defendant
to go on personal recognizance. but defendant
insisted on dismissal or fine and the fne was
imposed, from which he appealed.
Sergeant Boyle was the first witness. and he
testified that on the night Of January IL he
received information that prize fight was 20
be fought at the defendants saloon; that he
posted his officers and went in and found two
colored men with gloves on who had been in a
night, and number of others were there. BE-
lore entering they heard scuffiing OF feet
ana loud NOISE. One OF the colored men the
sergeant said had the reputation OF a thief
Lieut. Amlss testified TO the character Of the
people who habituate the place.
Oncer Needen testified TO entering the
place by the rear. He heard one say ID, he
Is game, ana some one caution them not to
speak so loud. he then mt for the sergeant an a
when he came they entered just as the fourth
round was on.
Officers Boland. Heller and Barney testified
TO the reputation Of the house.
The defendant denied that there was any
prize hight, but said II was a friendly set-to
The case was submitted without argument
and with short charge. A verdict of not
guilty was found