San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-26
DALLAS LETTER.
DALLAS, Texas, Dec. %, 1891.

DALLAS, IeXas, Dec. 20, lo5l'
Daily LIGHT:
Time of swapping" OF gifts draws
near. Those in position to give most,
will receive most. AS a general thing,
the holiday trade mas been exceeding
ly dull. The streets are in q fearful
condition. On Murphy street the
bois dare pavement is torn up and
the street Is almost impossible. In
large letters one is warned of danger
in driving.
Rev. u. Parker, a divine from Sher-
man is In trouble. Some body
bothered him when be was getting
his mail and Martha Gilmore's. 1t
seems Martha was former slave in
the reverend gentleman's family.
Martha's hus band was in the federal
army. After he died this good
Methodist devine assisted her in
finding up her application for PEN
sion and in getting it through; but it
seems it is q little uncertain as to
whom he wanted to receive the pen
sion money. At all events
when Rev. G. Parker was ar
rested he had Martha Gil
more's mail, and en- route to the
prison tried to destroy it by tearing it
up.
The dallas" arrived on 18th and
landed her cargo of wood, when it
was auctioned off, much of 1T being
being bought at one dollar per stick,
some sOld at $40 per cord
The consolidated street car com.
pany say they are ioosiDg too much
money to run cars on former schedule,
and till IL pays them to do so, can not
run cars on the Hall street line at all.
They say they lost five dollars per
car per day on that line.
East Dallas wants more fire alarm
boxes; she has not her pro rata This
muddy weather il is hard to be COM
PEELED to go a mile to ring on an
alarm; then it is very unsatisfactory
to the fire department..
Andy Owens, the house break er,
who has committed so many thefts, is
sent up for twenty-five years. Andy
followed the circus TO Dallas, and
thinks his lot has been hard one
since mis- advent into Dallas.
The Kings Daughters dine the
little newsboys tomorrow on order to
be free themselves on Christmas day.
Little Lotfie Freshman, daughter
of Mr.. sam Freshman, was playing In
the yard. Her clothing caught fire
and before the housekeeper could
reach her, the little one had been
burned so that she died within a
couple of hours. The little girl was
only three years old. Just before she
died she said: "Oh / see mamma
Mamma has come to take me ~ With
that she was gone.
Geo. w. Warren, whom the L. s.
marshal arrested for "shOving the
queer, acknowledges his guilt and is
in Jail.
Columbus Tison, q bar tender, died
in Dallas and was buried in the City
Cemetery last Sunday. Poor Tison
was q clever man, came from Georgia
to the much talked of town of Texas
several years ago. He landed here
"dead broke" could get nothing to do
but saloon work. that paid him bet
ter than other work and he followed
il afterwards.
Ed. Manning shot George Bates.
fnyslclaDs say Bates Will die. Bates
is negro, Manning is a mixture.
BATES called mea d-n mulate, and
Ishot him, and shot to kill" is what
Manning tells. The row occurred in
a saloon.
The widow Of John Neeley Bryan
lives on little farm in the country.
She has been forced to mortgage her
home, her all, for S7CO. 1t is suggested
that the city and county come to her
rescue, and Frank Cookrell wisely
suggests that he be allowed a pen
sion. John Medley Bryan gave to the
city the lot on which the court house
is being erected, and did great deal
for Dallas in years gone by, and it is
mete that Dallas should now care for
the widow. $50