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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1891-01-11

a En- la malana de hoy ha tornado possession
del Juzgado municipal de esta Capital nuestrO
amigo ell ilustrado juriseonsulto ST.. Don Angel
Acosta Quintero.
Asistentes anoche, que recordamos, il la
reunion del Centre Gatteg0:-Sres. Alvarez Pc
rez.-Rodriguez Fuentes-P6rez Alld, Direc-
tor de Ia Escuela Normal.-Agudo, Inspector
de POcia.-Gonzalez, Teniente de o. PdbcO tie
Mayaguez.- Perez d. Antonio)- Cachada.-
.-Calvo.--Amor Cd: EduardoE-Tri
giieros -Balbas-RegtIlez. -Ortega, -Cuevas
-OzOres-L0pez Cd. Adrano) ),-Portela.-
terO, O,-GOnzalez, z,-Rodeiro.-Alyarez Cd. Fran
cisco)-Ponte : Pena.-Burgos Lopez (R.B.J
90
A causa del etesivo material de actuaidad
que tenemos en- cartera, nos Vemos ob'igados
hoy suspender ell foetin que venimos publ
candO. Lo continuaremOS malana.
90
Ampliando las noticias que limos aver re
ferentes al vapOr San JatGR que con gu ga
mentO Sc encuentra detenido Ell este puerto.
pOdemOs asegurar, por informeS tOmadOs en
buena fuente, que lego hace va algun tempo
un telegrama del Minstro de Marina diriiido al
Sr. Comandant6 Principal del ramO EN- eS-
ia ciudad, disponiendo sc entregue ell carga-
mento del citadO bnque, 81 su embargo proce-
da de prOvidencia Administrative, 81 por
disposition de Juez personadad competen-
te, mantuv6Se su disposition. como la de-
tenc0n obedece reclamation del que apare-
ce como legitmo armador, no Sc pud0 cumpli-
mentar ell telegrama sin consular al Conan
dante General ue Apostadero de la Habaua,
cuya Autoridad dispuso contnuase virgente to-
do 10 actuado.
AnOche entire Ocho Y nueve, al Salir por
Puerta de TERRA nuestro respectable amigo
Don Andres MedranO, con direction su casa,
fu6 sorprendido p0r un moreno que le arreba
to un paquete que Ilevaba en- la mano, dandose
luego a la tuga. Y -dicen que no progre-
samOs! 49,.
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CO Sc cetebrara el COnsejo de guerra que ha lie
yel y fallar la causa seguida contra ell paisanO
Genaro Ortiz (a) GttGyanaG, acusado del delito
pot supuestO atentado resistencia la fuerza
armada.
Presidira dicho Consejo ell Comandante de
Artillerid Teniente COronel del Ej6rcitO d. To-
mas Reina Massa, debehdo asistir al mismo
como vocales suplentes los Capitanes siguien-
tes: d. RogeliO Amino, D. Rafael Ubeda Delga-
do, d. Rafael Maldonado Pacheco D. Servando
0'ZOnVilIe, d. Francisco Sanchez Apelanz, D.
Francisco (arri'lo Regalo d. Juan Bray Ava
los, NiendO assessor el ST. LetradO d. Juan Mo-
rera Martinez.
90
Nos cuentan lue aver como q las de la
tarde huho una procession de so so chiqui-
Hos que ihan detraS ,ie un GuArda Municipal
por e recinlo de San Agustin, al final de la
cae lie Ia Luna, Il c1nsecuenca de que ell
guardia h;zo recojer las ropas que las lavan-
deras tienden por aquel sitio.
i La Junta de obras del puerto de esta Ca
pital, HIT presentado el presupuesto para la
adquisci0n del material flo y m0vil neceSario
para la formation dc los terrapleneS ell los
puntos donde la profundidad por .bajo ell nivel
lie baja mar, impide Ia descarga de los gan
guiles por las c,DmpuertaS de suS cantaras.
La citada Junta de obras de puerto ha
adquirnlo una grt1a- draga sistema Prestman.A
En- breve sc anunGiara la subasta de las
obras de construction de una casilla de Peo-
nes camlneros, EN- el kilometro II de la carre-
terra Central
De 0rden del Excmo. S.. Intendente, Sc
pagaran en- Ia pr0xma semana, las siguientes
facturas de turnO:
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Dice EZ freshmen de Mayagiez !:

Dice EL ReSatRae1a de Mayagiez:
GEL Ayuntamient0 por unanimidad, acOr-
do la suma de 120 pesos anuales para que Ell
professor elemental Don Ruperto Rivera Colon
pudiese pagan un ayudante, en- vitud de yenir
cOncurriendO, hace algun tempo su escuela,
mas de 15 ninoS pObreS.
Aunque asi no fuera, es de toda iusticia 10
acordado, 4 fin de premiar en- algo los esfuer-
zoS del Sr. Colon.
No dudamos que la Junta Local de ms
truccion opine de conformidad,"
La Junta de ObraS de Puerto de Mayagiez
ha rendidO las cuentas generates de ingresOs
gastos correspondence q 1889 80, asi como
la memOria del progreso adelanto de las
obras.
A Don Emilio SantaaIla professor elemental
de Ponce lie la sido concedido un mes de licen-
cia por enfermedad
Les ha sido concedi,a la permuta solicita-
da por las profesoras de Mayagiez, Dona EIe-
na Camara Dona Carmen Vals
por iniciaci6n de los e sres. Don Jose B.
Montavo Don Antonio G6igel sParedes, va
fundarse una sociedad de beneticencia .ecreo
en- Isabella. va Sc ha pedido al Gobierno Ia
correspondence autorizacion-
La Logia Igwazddd de sabana-grande, ha
designado los Sres. siguientes para Ii nueva
dreotiva I'D. Felix Ti6, .presidente; D. Calixto
Carrera, Ter. vice-preSidente; Don Emilio Pie
tri, % vice presidente; Don Angel Lopez Sc
cretario; Don Joaquin Garcia, tesorero Don
Quitero Velazco, Don Pedro Estrada Don
Silvio Damiani, Don Ramon Almod0Var Don
Gui]lermo Velazco, Vocales.
Sc ha cOncedidO un mes de licencia, la
profesOra de Vega-baja, Da Hip0lita Agenjo, y
otro mes la de Maunabo, Da Rafaela Tbarra
Rodriguez.
Ha sidO designadO ell Aquitesto del Estado
para la reception proviciOnal dc las obras de
un depoStO municipal llevadas cabO por Ell
Ayuntamiento de Rio-piedras.
Ell Ayuntamiento de Coamo piensa esta-.
blecer con Don Julio E. Steinacher, vecino de
Ponce ingeniero de la empresa del gas en-
aquella ciudad, un cOntrato para llevar cabo
las obras de abastecimiento de aqua en- aque-
la Villa.
Don Ramon Miyer Quntana ha presentado
laoomemoria y plano correspondence para esta-
blecer un saIadero de pescadO en- uno de los
cayos situados al este de Esta Isla
s. Ell Sr. D. Francisco Comenero ha sido NOM
brado para desempanar la Escuea de Palmas-
atlas (Barceloneta), y D. Antonio Morales para
desempenar interinamente la de Hato-nuevo en-
Gurabo.
Bajo IA obediencia del Gran Oriente Espa-
mol va estabecerse en- Ponce una Logia Sim
b0lica, titulada Fraternidad EspaIolG
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NOtiCias de la IsIa

Con muy poca concurrencia in:cio sus ira
bajos acrobatcoS en- Mayaguez, la COmpanfa de
Mr.. Nelson EI Impartial atribuye In falta de
pdblico a 10 caro- que son los precios de entra-
da al circo.
En- Mayaguez han dado principle va a la
reparaci6n y pintura lie la fachada de la Casa
Consstorial. TambiGn Sc esta pintando com
poniendo ell Mercado cubierto. =
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ART NOTES.

1t may surprise many persons to find
that Sidney Cooper, r. A., the painter of
animals, is still alive He has lust pub
lished my LIFE with Bentley d Co. in
two volumes, long drawn out. He is old
enough to remember distinctly the troops
marching to the seaboard prior to Water
loo, and the severe cold of the winter in
which Napoleon's army persisted on the
Russian plains. He began life as an APP
prentice to coach painter, and was so
poor that he lacked money to buy paper
and pencils. At II he was for short time
at the schools of the Royal Academy.
where Fusell encouraged him, but ne had
to live with an uncle, who soon turned
him off. He tried teaching, and suddenly
resolved, like Goldsmith, to cross the
channel and make his way in the Neither
lands, with no better means of subsistence
than his flute. He did very well in Brus-
sells as a portrait painter, and when he
came in contact with Verboeckhoven, be-
gan to paint cattle and horses, not, in
deed, with the high finish of his master,
but with enough eXactnesS to make a
great name for himself in London when
he returned in 1881. He has become very
rich, and on the site of the humble dwell
ing where his mother, in 1872, could
hardly keep bread in the mouths of her
five fatherless children, he has erected
the Sidney Cooper Gallery of Art.''
The jury of admission at the thirteenth
annual exhibition of the Society of
American Artists consists of the follow
ing: Messrs. Beckwith, H. f. Butler.
Chase, +. S. Church, Coffin, Collins, X !.
Cox, Denman, Dewing, Donoho, Fitz,
Hassam, Hovenden, +. G. Jones, Will H.
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Curious Facts About tho Jows.

We can not yet see the full bearing of
many of the results obtained by the tabu-
lation of the dates relating to these Jew
ish families, because the data collected by
the eleventh census relating to persons of
Irish, German, French, italian, or Scan
dinavian descent residing in the United
States have not yet been compiled into
corresponding tables, and are not avail
able for comparison. 1t is, however, evil
dent that these Jews have much lower
death-rate and decidedly greater longev-
ity than the rest of our people, and that
their marriage and birth-rates are below
the average. 1t also seems probable that
they possess a partial immunity from
and special liability to certain forms of
disease; that with prolonged residence in
the United States their death-rate is in
creasing, and that their natural increase
is somewhat greater in the South than it
is in the North.
The data are are not sufficient in num-
Der or in probable accuracy to warrant
more than the statement that it is rather
more than an even chance that these last
conclusions are correct, but they certainly
give rise to questions which merit ex-
tended and careful investigation. The
great majority of the peculiarities in these
vital statistics appear to be connected
with the occupations, social relations, and
mode Of life of people rather than with
special race characteristics, and they will
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ADJUSTMENTS.

A large and appreciative audience
gathered at the Metropolitan Theater last
evening to see the Steen IL Wood combi-
nation. The ledgerdemain and ventrilo-
quism of Mr.. Wood was cleverly rem
dered and created great deal of amuse-
ment, and for his cornet limitations was
recalled twice.
Mr.. sSteen and his gifted wife are the
talk of Sacramento on account of the
brilliant and interesting exhibition of
their marvellous powers of mind-reading
and the art of memorizing. This char
acter of entertainment is extremely
curious and fascinating, for, while it ex-
cites and captivates by an intensity of in
tereSt and subtle charm, it battles the rea-
son by its occult incomprehensibility and
challenges admiration and awe that the
human mind is capable of such tri-
umphant and imperious powers as to
render submissive the ideas and emo
tons of others. Professor Steen continu-
ally assures the audience that there is
nothing supernatural in their achieve
ments OF mental power; that it is
merely an intellectual feat. The desire of
Mrs. Steen and himself, he says, is to re-
lease people from the thraldom of spirit
ualism, and he openly challenges any
spiritualist to bear their test.
a committee Of gentlemen We're as
usual invited from the audience to take
seats upon the platform to see if they
could catch the Stems at their business.
One was asked to bind the eyes of Mrs.
Steen as she sat facing the audience, and
then commenced series of wonderful
feats that were breathless source of adj
miration and delight. The mathematical
calculations are all marvels of brightness
and talent.
Edna, the Queen of the Air." as usual
captivated the audience with her wonder
full and daring performance, and many
conjectures were raised as to how it was
done.
AS has been stated before in these col
umns, the show is one of the best that has
come here. Tonight will be the last per-
Torrance of the Steens, in which they
say they will expose spiritualism, cab
met tricks and rope-tying. Everything
will be done by the gaslight. Seats will
be on sale all day.
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GIRLS WITH BAD HABITS
Some Smoke Cigarettes and Others
Drink Rock Candy and Whisky.

some smoke Cigarettes and Others
Drink Rock Candy and Whisky.
did you see that girl who was just in
here?' said the clerk of a popular Sixth
avenue drug store to a New York Iele-
grom reporter. "Well, she comes in here
tor cigarettes. She uses about three pack
ages week. At first l thought she was
buying them for some one else, but was
told not long ago by a lady who knows
her and visits at her home that she uses
them herself"
How did she acquire the habit?''
From seeing Lolita Smoke-three years
ago. She Initiated her in fun, and now
smokes her cigarettes in great shape and
in dead earnest
Don't her folks disapprove?,
They don't know it. The young lady's
room is on a hall next to that occupied by
two yong men who are stopping at the
house, and the folks account for the cigar
cite odor by their presence. You'd be
surprised at the number of cigarettes we
sell to women; nice women, too. The
physicians are bowling about the ravages
OF the cigarettes among the young men.
They have no idea, however, of its popu-
larity with the young women. It's mild
kind of dissipation, though. 1 have half
dozen women among my customers who
are pretty heavy gin drinkers. The appe-
tite is hard one to shake off.
Il presume every druggist in the city
has an equal iiumber of women patrons"
continued the druggist. 81 have more
rock candy and whisky calls, however.
They get a half a pint of whisky and have
couple of ounces of glycerine put in it,
and then, with rock candy, it makes
wonderfully nice drink. Takes all the
fire out of it. You get the flavor and
effect without any of the tofchlight pro-
4cession."
What percentage L asked, "of the
entire adult female population use some
stimulant or opiate?' 20
Judging from my own trade, which is
my only guide, l should say % per cent"
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
Morrow Secures the Appropriation for
Sacramento'S Postoffice.

Sacramento's Postoffice.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3I.-The House APP
preparation Committee has reported fav-
orably the amendment to establish a
Consul at Managna, with an annual sal
airy of $1,000.
The committee also favors the amend
ment to establish an agent at the Colville
(Washington) Agency at an annual sal
airy of 81, 600.
Senator Frye, from the Committee on
Commerce, has received letter from the
Bureau of Navigation of the Treasury De-
partment, asking that the bill relating to
paying sealnen being passed. The bureau
especially commends the provision to al
low creditors to attach the salary of sea-
men.
The Secretary of the Interior to-day af-
firmed the Commissioners decision re-
jecting the application OF Daniel Luce to
purchase lands in the Los Angeles dis
trict, said tracts of land being located
within the primary limits of the South
ern Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
road grants.
The following Indian depreciation
claims have been allowed: E. c. Hardie,
Skamonia County, Washington, $5S5 for
depredations by the Klickitat band tof
Iokona Indians; James A. Despaine of
Pendleton, Oregon, 81, 800 for depreda-
tons by the Bannacks in 1878; w. A.
Townsend, Long Creek, Oregon, $500 for
depredations by the Bannacks in 1878; D.
J. Stewart, Pilot Rock, Oregon, $50 for
depredations by the Bannacks in 1879.
Senator Stanford gave dinner tonight
at which were present Justice Field, Sem
ator Wolcott, Senator Dixon, Speaker
Reed. Representative Flower and Rev.
Henry Field and their wives, and Miss
JUdSOn, of ALBANY n. Y
In the Appropriations Committee to-
day Morrow secured an appropriation of
$50, 900 for an addition to the Postoffice at
San Francisco. The majority of the COM
mittee were of the opinion that the repair
of the old Postoftice was unnecessary, in
view of the fact that an appropriation
had just been passed for a new building.
Morrow explained the situation, and Sc
cured favorable report. He also secured
the full appropriation of $685. for the
Sacramento PostofIice and $4,000 for
Stockton.
Representative Geary is to be disap-
pointed in his ambition to secure post
Office building for Humboldt, California
Speaker Reed thinks that California is
building appropriations and no more
bills will be recognized from California
unless it be Vandeyers providing for the
Los Angeles postof1ice building.
Senator Stantord's agent arrived to-
night from Chicago, bringing with him
Sl32,000, the proceeds OF the sale of colts.
1t is believed that change will be
made in the construction department
at the Mare Island navy yard, owing to
the complication growing out of the re-
pair of the Alerts bottom.
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Munchausen in Kansas.

A Dakota man and a Kansas man were
sitting on cracker boxes at the grocery
store, and the Dakota man had Just told a
story about the big beets that were raised
on the Red River. 1t was so large story
that flour barrel near the stove coughed
suspiciously, and the Kansas man whit
tied off larger slice of pine than usual
from the corner of his box Finally he
said, in penSive tone, as if calling up
the details gradually out of roomy past !:
II remember when want to Kansas in
the spring of '6S it was awfully dry, but
l had great faith in the productiyeness of
the soil, and / put in eighty acres of the
finest seed wheat you ever saw. 1t didn't
rain all summer, and not spear of that
wheat came up.
"Well, gentlemen, can tell you I felt
pretty sad. But 1 managed to scrape
through the winter, and the next spring I
sowed the same piece of land to barley
But it didn't rain drop all that year,
and not a blade of that barley came out of
the ground.
You may depend upon it, felt pretty
nigh discouraged. But with the help of
my wife's relations / pulled through the
winter. l had great faith in the soil, and
the next spring sowed the same piece of
ground to oats. If you will believe me
not drop of rain fell all summer, and
the oats never came up.
''That was the summer of'70. Well. in
that fall it began to rain, and it did rain.
The flood was tributary to that rain 1t
Kept right on raining all spring, and in
July l had the finest crop of wheat you
ever saw-the wheat that sowed in '6S,
you understand.
II harvested it, and just after it was all
in it began to rain again, and the next
summer the finest crop of barley you
ever saw came up, the barley that 1
sowed in $50. 1t was a fine crop and I
paid off all my remaining debts with it.
The next spring we had fine rain,
and the oats that planted in 10 began to
come up, and -"
The Kansas man look up and saw that
he was alone. Even the -four barrel had
edged away behind the stove. and the
Kansas man smiled as he said to himself:
The soil of Kansas is remarkably pro-
ductiYe.v
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pulled so in trying to get free that his
claws sunk deeper into my shoulder. We
were both heartily tired of each others
company.
suddenly, about II o'clock, when we
mad both given up struggling for while,
the lynx having apparently decided TO
take'the matter philOSophically, save an
occa slonal whine of remonstrance as l
charged my footing and squeezed him
harder.
A CHEEKY WHISTLE
Coming along the road caught my ear. I
knew who it was by the tune. 1t was
our hired man." who knew no other
tune but 'Annie Laurie.''
My mother, being anxious at my alb
sence had prevailed upon the good-na-
tured fellow to go to the neighbours,
where had been, and make sure that |
wa; there, despite the fact that they all
assured her that / certainly muet be, and
my father, stern man, had arranged in
ms, mind little programme in which he
ana were to be the principal actors, to
take place IN the wood-Shedsthe follow
ing morning.
AS matter of precaution, Charley, the
hired man." had brought along his gun
and lantern. AS soon as 1 heard the
whistle began to yell his name. and
called to him to let me out. The lynx
also added his entreaties in different
most scared to death at hearing such I'M
earthly sounds in the old barn at that
time OF night, but being practical man,
not believing in ghosts, and having a
thorough knowledge of lynx language,
he at once comprehended the situation.
He leaped over the fence, reached the
barn, and the light of his lantern at once
showed him the state of affairs. Setting
the lantern deliberately on the floor, he
approached within a few feet of the lynx
u all the time explaining the circum-
stances and lying flat upon the floor so
that the shot would not go through the
trap door, he ended the eventful career of
that cat in no time.
L was hauled out of the hole unframed,
the lynx detached from my shoulder (for
even in death we We're not sundered), and
instead of fainting away as 1 should have
done, when the tension of my nerves
We're relieved,'' as books say, 1 just
walked over to that animal and gave him
a hearty kick, thus relieving the pent-up
feelings which agitated me through the
long hours of my night of terror.
n, B.-The matinee in the wood-shed
did not take place.
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SENATOR HOAR ANGRY.
He Accuses Several Senator's of Violat.
ing Their Pledges.

He Accuses Several Senator's of Vfolat-
ing Their Pledges.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-Senator Hoar
has published statement to the effect
that every Republican Senator who
voted to lay aside the cloture rule, with
the exception of Senator Wolcott, did so
in strict violation of written pledge
given last session to stand by any mo-
ton looking to the advancement and pas
sage of the elections bill. The pledge is
as follows:
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. %, 1890.
We will vote, first, to take up for considera-
ton on the first day of the next session the
Federal elections bill and to keep it before the
Senate to the exclusion of all other legislative
business until it is disposed of by VOTE
Second-To make such provision as to the
time and manner of taking the vote as shall
be decided by a majority of the Republican
Senators to be necessary in order to secure
such vote, either by n general rule like that
proposed by Mr.. Hoar, and now pending be-
fore the Committee on Rules, or by special
rule of the same purport, applicable only to
the elections bill.
The agreement was signed by the en-
tire majority of the Senate. Mr.. Ed
munds did not sign the agreement,
though stating he would abide by it.
Mr.. Wolcott declined to sign it. Mr..
ingalls, recently stated that he was not
asked to sign the agreement. Mr.. STAN
ford was in Europe at the time. All the
other Republican Senators signed it.
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therefore tend to disappear SO far as the
Jews mode of life becomes assimilated to
that OF their neighbors. In Europe the
Jews have been kept apart from other
races, partly by religious and other ties
acting from within, and partly by COM
pressive persecution acting from without.
In this country both of these causes of
Segregation, and of consequent hereditary
transmission of physiological peculiari-
ties, are becoming weaker, and the latter
much more so than the former.-Norus
American ReUieac.
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For the SUNDAY UNIoN.l
THE HEAVENLY MESSAGE.

| heard a voice from Heaven say
"Oh weary child, the long, long day
OF pain and sorrow, of toll and woe,
And all that grieveth thy poor heart so,
Shall prove but the glory to crown thy years,
When thou pass beyond this vale of tearsr'
- A wondrous place filled all my soul,
As the voice OF the angel died away,
For knew that to reach the heavenly goal
must bear with patience the weary way.
But the end is sweet and the joy is mine,
If l reach that Kingdom of love divine.
Father of Mercies! tender, strong,
The path is narrow, the way is long!
But stretch forth Thy hand in love to me,
And it matters not that should see.
Thy love shall hold me strong and fast,
Until the Valley of Shade be past.
A. q. q. DORA BURNS).
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A Brutal Assault.

About II o'clock last night a man named
r. Hill created disturbance in a house
on L street, between Third and Fourth,
claiming that he been robbed of g. The
noise attracted officer Mclaughlin, who
elected the man. He afterward returned
and brutality assaulted the occupant,
knocking her down and kicking her in
the face and head. He then made his
escape, but was soon after captured and
lodged in the city prison by officers
Frazee and Mclaughlin.
The woman was removed to the Receiv-
ing Hospital, and physician called. Her
injuries proved to be very severe, several
of her teeth being knocked out, and it is
thought she is internally injured.