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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14
Vive lie RepubIlaue Francatse.

TODAY is the great French anniversary
of the Fall Of the Bastile
The French WOrkingmen celebrated
with the Mexican and Italian societies hv
a procession and picnic at San Pedro
Park.
The Cercle Franchise will celebrate bv a
select banquet aud ball tonight at Mission
Garden.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14
Funeral Notice.

Died: This morning at five o'clock, Doc
tor Z. Thurmaizer, age 36 years. The
funeral will occur tomorrow morning at
s O'Clock, from his late residence on East
Commerce street. near city cemetery. All
members of Alamo Council A, and Friend
ship Council %, Chosen Friends, are re-
Quested to attend.
ALRERT PERSCH. c. C.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14
Alamo Visitors.

Those who visited the Alamo this morn
ing were: Mrs. S. A. Smith. from Mission
Valley, Tex; w. NJ. Stages, Garlic
Springs, Tex; 5. w, Scott and wife from
Corpus Christi. Tex.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14
Sale of the Finest.

Being overstocked in finer grades
of laces and embroideries, we offer all
our best grades at cost. Some ex-
quisite patterns. 7:13 If
J. X. BEREFTA & Co,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14
SHORT STOPS.
what the peopIe are Saying

ShohI SIDfS.
What the People are Saying.
Our city government is becoming
quite hightoned; we have q branch
establishment In "Paree."
How convenient and tempting it
will be for City Attorney Bergstrom
to step aboard a steamer at New
York, and in eight days be in
"Paree.n
Mr.. Bergstrom knows all about
Mrs. Flores; he did all the legal
business for the family before Mayor
Callaghan got the job.
If the city can get along without a
mayor, why not spare the city attor-
ney, and eventually the auditor and
other officials.
Today,there was a grand parade of
our local politicians. The Fall of the
astile," was the event to be cele-
brated, and a faction of our French
colony turned out in procession; they
were accompanied by the italian and
Mexican associations.
City Clerk Claudon, was the chief
manager of this faction, and while
the genuine Frenchman was not num-
erous, he was we'll backed up by such
distinguished, psuedo Frenchmen,
for the occasion, as Mons. Thad.
Smith, Berner, McAllister, Chas.
Hertf "etc.r
When the head of the procession
swung around the corner of Main
plaza into Commerce street, the alb
sence of the stars and stripes and, the
sunburned faces of the gallant riders
and foOtmen, made good representa-
ton OF raiding party just returned
from Algiers.
The election may he some ways off,
but it will be a cool day in July when
the 'rtng" gets lett out of any process
sion carrying the French, Mexican or
Italian flag to the front.
Tonight there will be quiet. but
more select gathering of French citi-
zens at the Mission Garden, the
other faction.
Mayor Callaghan is no doubt in
"Paree;" ii is great day with our
absen chief magistrate; he has looked
at the very spot on which the BastiIe
stood; he has seen and participated
in the celebration; and no doubt at
this very instant, over his bottle of
wine, in one of the great restaurants
of the capital of the world, he is dis
cussing how his French subjects in
ssh Antonio are flouris hing.
At least, the faithful Claudon, is in
of one faction and the other
faction must be taken care of also.
The procession of flag bespangled
carriages that bore the city and coun-
ty officials was indication that orders
had been received from the very
shadow, or where once there was a
shadow OF the Bastile, that Ciaudon's
procession was the officially recog-
niZed, and that the "creme de la
creme,n must be considered as politi-
cally skinned milk.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14
Building Permits.

r Ciaridge, dwelling, West Commerc &c
street, End ward $500.
Louis Chapman, awning, West Com
merce street Sd ward
Paula Cara, dwelling, IndianOa street
9TH ward 500.
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To Printers ana Publishers.

You can buy bargain in press, or an
engine, by addressing T. B. JOHNSON,
LIGHT Office. 5.6-tf.
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42I E. HOUSTON ST,

Will furnish reliable abstracts of title
to lands in Bexar County, either city
or country property, upon short
notice and reasonable terms.
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How convenient and tempting it
will be for CITY Attorney Bergstrom
to step aboard a steamer at New
York, and in eight days be in
"Paree."
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14
Improved Passenger EuuIpment

The Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway
is now running Free Reclining Chair Cars
on all through trains between Hannibal.
Mo-, and Taylor, Texas. This in connec-
tion with its Through Sleeping Car ser
vice makes the NJ. X. & T. R'y the best
equipped inc in the Southwest.
49, CASTOR MEsLIER G. p. A.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14

Our city government is becoming
quite hightoned; we have branch
estab lishment in "Paree"
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At a Bargain.

A fine Columbus phaeton buggy; new,
only in use a short time, can be had at a
bargain. ali and Sc it at ". Pigott'st
corner of Houston aud Soledad street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14

Mr.. Bergstrom knows all about
Mrs. Flores; he did all the legal
business for the family before Mayor
Callaghan got the job.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14

If the city can get along without a
mayor, why not spare the city attor-
ney, and eventually the auditor and
other officials.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14

Best dry oak wOod-Aransas Pass
wood yard. Telephone sos. 7-6 Pm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14

The election may he some ways off,
but it will be cool day in July when
the "rtng" gets lett out of any process
sion carrying the French, Mexican or
Italian flag to the front.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14

Today,there was grand parade of
our local politicians. The Fall of the
8astile," was the event to be cele-
brated, and faction of our French
colony turned out in procession; they
were accompanied by the italian and
Mexican associations.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-14

Tonight there will be a quiet, bu
more select gathering of French citi
zens at the Mission Garden,-the
other faction.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
WONDERFUL COUNTERFEIT.
The Two-Dollar Silver Certificate Du-
plicated Even to the Paper.


Asensation has been caused at thu United
States Treasury Department at Washington
by the discovery Of counterfeit So silver
certificate so nearly perfect in all its parts as
to be almost impossible Of detection.
Heretofore all counterfeits Of our paper
currency have been readily detected by the
failure to initiate the distinctive character
of the papsr OH which Government notes are
printed, whicais so arranged that each part
Of it forming complete note contains solid
silk thread running through it lengthwlse.
This paper is, for the first time, almost per-
fectly initiated in the counterfeit just dis
covered.
So far as is now known it has been used
only in counterfeiting the 50 silver certificate
Of the series of 1885. This note was designed
under the supervision of Treasurer Jordan
and contains on its facs vignetts OF
General Hancock
It is estimated now that nearly $40, 00O,-
600 worth Of these notes are in circulation;
and the problem before the Treasury De-
partment is how to get them back into the
Treasury and to substitute new series
without serious embarrassment, before any
considerable quantity of the counterfeit notes
get into circulation.
1t has been practically decided to suspend
the printing Of the So silver certificate and
to institute new series Of the same demon.
ination. These will contain vignette of
Secretary Window and will be issued as soon
as the necessary plate can be engraved. 1t
will take about two months to prepare the
plates, and in the meantime the Govern
ment will exert its utmost endeavors to So
cure and destroy the plates and other para
phernalia used III the manufacture Of the
counterfeit.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22

The design, as approved by General Sher-
man, Is here produced. The monument is to
be made of what is known as fine hammered
Westerly stautary granite Of light color.
It will be four feet eight inches by three feet
eight inches atthe base and nine feet six inches
high and made in three sections. 1t Is to
stand beside the granite cross which General
Sherman year ago erected to the memory
OF his wife. In height, material and finish
the monument will, by the Generals dirsc.
ton, correspond with the cross. There will
be no ornarnentation OF the monument ex-
cept on its front. On the top his well-known
gold and silver combination badge will be
represented. 1t consists Of gold pin,
from which Is suspended ribbon in
the national colors. This ribbon supports
an arrow from which O triangle is
suspended. To the triangle q gold shield Is
attached with an acorn pendant. On the
centre Of the shield Is O star with cartridge
box engraved on its center. The arrow,
triangle, shield, star, cartridge box and
acorn are each the emblem Of one Of the
army corps with which General Sherman
was associated during the war.
Below the badge are two furled flags, one
the headquarters banner Of the General Of
the army and the other the regulation
national flag. It is reproduction of the
two flags as they stood In the Generals late
residence in Seventy-6rst street, New York
Below the flags in addition to the modest
inscription given there will be added simple
record of his birth and death.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
The Noises Of o Big City.

sI cannot understand the outcry some
people make against the noise in the
Streets" said the man. "Just stand
here in the City Hall Park, close your
eyes, and listen. 1t is a bright day,
and it is the time when the tide of city
life is at the food. That dull, heavy
boom, like the roar Of the sea, is the
thousand wagons, which, when heard
one at time, rattle and jar so. But the
thousand are like a multitude of bass
viols blending in monotonous, musica!
note. Above it rise the higher, shriller
notes, the tinkling of score of car-bells,
the shouts of drivers, the high-pitched
voices of women and children, the
sounds of laughter, the faint murmur Of
distant church or clock bells. Some
times this rises to a shrill falsetto, then
dies, until it is scarcely to be distint
guished from the bass roar Of the wagons
on the granite. You are hearing the
tremendous orchestra of city life-vio-
lins, flutes, cellos, cymbals, drums. It
could be set down in notes. 1t is not
discordant. 1t is soothing, and the city
man, who hears it unconsciously day
after day, learns to love it unconsciously,
and it haunts him with its melody in
country places so that he must come
back t0 it.-NeD York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
Real Dimensions Of Whales.

Most OF the stories we hear about
whales of 200, 300 aid AGO feet in length
are the imaginary musings of persons
who have more respect for the size of a
story than for the truth it may contain.
Mr.. Scoresbv, a very high authority on
this subject, declares that the common
whale seldom exceeds seventy feet in
length, and is much more frequently
under sixty. Out of 1862 whales which
hc personally assisted in capturing not
one exceeded fifty-eight feet in length,
and the largest he ever heard of being
captured and measured by persons who
could be relied upon only measured sew.
enty-seven feet. Of the razor backed
whale he has seen specimens that meas
ured 1O5 feet. One of these was found
dead in Davis Straits, which measured
101 feet, and skeleton of one found in
in Columbia River was 112 feet. Other
specimens have measured all the way
from eighty to 100 feet. One cast on
shore at North Berwick, Scotland, and
preserved by DR.. Knox, was cighty-three
feet in length. These instances seem
to establish the average length OF these
huge animals. In his earlier accounts
Cuvier, the eminent naturalist, with
considerable cred1lity, says: "There is
no doubt that whales have been seen in
certain epochs and in certain seas that
were upward of 800 feet, or 100 yards
long. ."-St. Louis Republic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
How Lions Hunt Game.

Lions, as a rule, hunt in family par
ties. A very old lion, not infrequently
incapacitated from taking an active part
in pursuing game, is generally to be.
found at the head of such coterie, and
on him devolves no unlmportant part OF
the programme. Down to leeward, q
hundred PAGES below where the draught
bullocks are made fast when train hslts
for rest, the young and active males and
lioneses place themselves behind what
available cover is to be found. This be-,
ing done, the old lion goes to the wind
ward of the encanpment, and shakes out
his abundant name in the breeze, so that
the odor from it may be carried down to
the excited draught animals. One sniff
of the tainted breeze brings every OK to
his feet in moment; then standing,
often trembling with fear, they gaze
with dilated eyes into the impenetrable
darkness. Closer and closer approaches
the aged lion to his victims, shaking and
reshaking the dense, tawny covering OF
his forc-q quarters. Then, if the travellers
harness be not strong, he may look out
for stampede. Should it hold tenn
! o 'arily, the aggressor, as climax to his
former maneuver, gives utterance to his
deepest and loudssiear. when the fright.
ened beasts,if not secured by the -stoutesf
fastenings that can be obtained, will
break free and rush with inconceivable
rapidity into the very jaws of their foes,
secreted to leeward.-Picayune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
THE LABOR WORLD.
BRASS unions are spreading.
INITIATION fees are going up.
COLORADO has Miners, Alliances


INITIATION fees are going up.
COLORADO has Miners Alliances.
NEW YORK has Japanese carpenter.
( ENGLAND will revive Industrial villages.
SAN FRANCISCO unions exclude Japanese
LOWELL (Mass.) weavers can average $3.50
q week.
SAN FRANCISCO musicians talk of music
library.
PALESTINE Ohio pottery girls struck for
less hours.
UNION and non-union shearers are at war
in Australia.
LABOR agitation Is unusually active in
in Chicago Just now.
MASSACHUSETTS sweaters make eighty.
eight per cent. profit.
TIE international bricklayers have &C.
cumulated a fund Of $4,000.
LORD DERBY has accepted seat on the
English Labor Commission.
THE Flint Glass Workers Union has 1000
members and s90, 900 in bank.
THE carriasemakers and wheelwrights are
about to form q national body.
DENMARK proposes an international union
Of machinists and blacksmiths.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND New
York girls get sixty cents day.
THE boiler manufacturers are forming an
insurance and inspection company.
ABOUT 10000 able-boii workmen are
out Of employment in France at present.
THE French Labor Commission will estab-
lished Labor Bureau and an Arbitration
Board.
The Secretary of the Navy is unable, un-
der the law, to supply men for the new war
vessels.
The railway managers Of Holland employ
watchwomen instead Of watchmen at their
stations.
ALL arrangements have beon perfected
for the building Of a million dollar cotton
mill in Huntsville, Ala.
"THE cornerstone of the Printers Home at
Denver, COL. will be laid on George W.
Childs's birthday, May 12..
CANTON (Switzerland) municipal authori.
ties have decided that all employers must
share profits with the laborers
In the United States the average annual
production Of each employe Is S72O, Of which
the laborer receives Ssl6 and capital 1914.
TIE Reading Railroad Of Pennsylvania is
cutting down the trees along its tracks that
the engineers may have better look ahead.
SIX or seven thousand workmen are now
steadily employed in the various branches
of industry connected with Edison's inven-
tions.
TIE Master Masons' Association, Of Phila-
delphia, refuses to grant the increase OF pay
from 1926 to $500 per day asked by the ma
sons, who threaten to strike.
IL.
Ohio, broke open general store and carried
of thirty barrels of -four and several hum
dreA pounds of meat They said that they
had to steal or starye.
In 1890 there were IL Germany 113l strikes.
In each of which more than ten men partici-
pated. The total number of Gtrikers was
394, 440. In 420 cases they were entirely un-
successful; in 4Ss, partially successful; in
1877 they got all they demanded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
Best Way to Study Birds.

Olive Thorne Miller, in paper in the
Atlaat,c, called "From My Window" J."
tells about her bird Study" She says:
The best place have found for spying
upon the habits of birds is behind a
blind. If one can command a window
with outside blinds, looking upon spot
attractive to the feathered world, he will
be sure, sooner or later, to see every bird
of the vicinity. If he will keep the
blinds closed and look only through the
opened stats, he will witness more OF
their uncoDstrained free ways that can
possibly be seen by person within their
sight, though he assume the attitude and
the stolidity of q wooden figure. Says
our nature-poet, Emerson:
You often thread the woods in vain
To see what singer piped the strain.
Seek not, and the little eremite
Flies forth and gayly sings in sight
And the bird student can testify to tho
truth of the verse.
Many times, alter hav;4g spent the
morning in wandering about in the bird
haunts of a neighborhood, 1 have re-
turned to my room to write up my note.
book, and have seen more of birds and
bird life in an hour from my window
than during the whole mornings stroll.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
WASHINGTON.

THE President appointed Joseph Pinkham.
OF Idaho to be United States Marshal for
the District of Idaho. and John C.. Quinn,
of California, to be Collector Of Internal
Revenue for the First District Of Cali
fornia.
INDIANA received from the Secretary
Of the Treasury draft for S169, l44 being
the amount of the direct tax money returned
to the State under the act Of the last Con
greSs.
The cloth chosen by the Postofice Depart
ment for the new uniforms Of the letter car
riers is new shade of cadet blue. The con
tract tor furnishing two suits each to thu
10,07O letter carriers throughout the country
at Sis, without hat or cap, has been awarded
to Baltimore firm.
THE President has pardoned George Smith,
convicted in Michig gan of breaking into a
postofflce. and sentenced April 10, 1899, to
five years imprisonment.
MAJOR E. G. RATHBoNE, Chief Postoffice
Inspector, has accepted the Office Of Fourth
Assistant PostmaSter-General.
THE Treasury Department made tho fol-
lowing payments under the French Spolia-
ton Claims act: Mary B. Scott, administra-
trix of Jacob Clement S24 093; Cassius F.
Lee, Jr., administrator OF William Hodgson,
sS926.
Miss GRACE FULLER, daughter of the
Chief-Justice, was married to Archibald
Lapham Brown in Washington.
THE President made the following ap-
pointnents: Thomas H. Carter, of Montana,
to be Commissioner Of the General Land
Office. vice Lewis A. Croft, resigned; James
Compton, of Fergus Falls Mimi, Surveyor
General of Minnesota, vice John F. Norrlsh,
term expired; Ernest w. George, British
subject, to be Marshal of the United States
Consular Court at Hankow, China.
The wife of Senator Faulkner, of West Vir-
ginia, died in Washington from infamma-
tion of the stomach, caused by an attack OF
the grip.
The Commissioner Of Internal Rev enue
has issued special instructions to the Col.
lectors in regard to the tobacco traffic. He
says that the practice Of allowing cigar
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
They Live In the Stone Age.

Hugo Zoller has published in the
Mittdeilungen, of Gotha, an article on the
little known islands, Bouka and Bou.
gainville, the most northern of the Solo.
mon group, east of New Guinea, which
he visited two years ago. The inhabit-
ants of these islands are so remarkably
hostile that to this day all the islands OF
the Solomon group are little known.
The natives have kept almost wholly
free from European influences. They
live in the stone age, though very few
of them have firearms. They wear little
or no clothing, are of the Melanesian
race, and while darker in color than the
natives of New Guineas their habits re-
call the Polynesians. Their bows are
ten feet long, and they also use lancea
and clubs.
They have quite number of indus.
tries, and build canoes which Mr.. Zol.
Ter says could not be exceled by white
artisans. Their carvings upon wood are
ingenious, and they weave nets and
make pottery without the aid of the
wheel. Cannibalism, which is always
observed in these regions to greater OF
lesser extent, is becoming rare among
them. if the natives are to be believed,
Many writers have affirmed that these
islands throw their dead into the water
or cremate them, but Mr.. zoller says he
repeatedly saw cemeteries in Bougain.
vile decorated with rude stone monu.
ments. This custom cannot be attributed
to the influence of Christianity, for mis-
sionaries have never yet ventured among
these dangerous people, and the natives
have met only few Europen merchants,
most of whom they have slaughtered.
Bouka is only about thirty miles long
and ten miles wide, but it has popula.
tion of about $1,000, and the little
islands which are near it are densely
peopled.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
TWO MURDERERS HANGED.
Geo. w. Moss at Wilkesbarre, and
VIM. Stangley at Mauch Chunk.

Geo. w. Moss at Wilkesbarre, and
VIM. Stangley at Mauch Chunk.
George Washington Moss was hanged at
Wilkesbarrs. Penn, for the brutal murder
Of his wife October 10, 1889.
He had il-treated his wife for years aid
was finally sent to prison on her complaint.
After his RELEASE which was secured largely
on his professions Of penitence, he renewed
his cruelty and soon began to lay plans to
kill his wife.
On the evening of the murder he bought a
cheap pistol and going to his house, de-
liberately shot and killed the helpless woman.
He then tried to kill himself, but only sue
ceeded in in1icting serious wound.
Mosss neck was broken by the fall on
the scaffold.
William Stangley was hangel at Mauch
Chunk, Penn, for the murder at Weatherly
of Mrs. Albert A. Walbert, with whom he
boarded, on October 10, 1889.
He had quarrelled with the woman and she
had had him arrested. The suit was after
wards withdrawn, but Stangley brooded over
the affair, and on the morning, Of the muir.
der went to the house, and, after quarrel
with Mrs. Walbert shot her. He narrowly
escaped lynching when captured.