San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-15
AUSTIN LETTER.


Society circles have been gay enough
during the past week and the happy (?)
participants were SO tired when sunday
came that very few of them were seen at
the churches. There were germans, recep-
tions, card parties and musicals, and each
was something rare in its way. Possibly
the affair in which most interest was TAX
en- was Miss Iglehart's germ an which
took place en- last Thursday evening.
Some 30 couples of the elite of the citywere
there and the occasion did honor to Austin
society. Some 400 or more favOrS were
given and each in itself was study. They
were most appropriate, costly and novel.
The entertainment was in honor of Miss
Cooke, of Baltimore, who is visiting Miss
Iglehart.
There was nothing attractive at the
opera house during the past week. The
''Sam'l of POsen" company held the
boards on Monday, and again with
matinee and night performance on Thurs
day, but the play, though good, did not
seem to be much appreciated. The only
other attraction (?l was gift show, circus
arrangement on Friday and Saturday,
which caught certain class Of people
only. Theatre goerS hope at least that
some. better shows will shortly come
along.
Four young ladies are visiting the gov
ernOr'S mansion just now, all of them
pretty and all from Tyler. They receive
a good d cal of attention from the Austin
boys. bu it is not (as they perhaps sus
pect because they are with the governor,
for governors and such like are nothing
new to Austin people. Such are an every
day affair. and like all other things, after
4 while get stale" The Tyler girls are
pretty and attractive; that is why they
are liked.
Journey, Austin's leading photogra-
pher, has lighted upon novel way of ad-
vertiSing new style OF picture. He is
introducing what he calls the paris
Panel Picture" and proposes to begin on
the 14th inst, and taking the alphabet as
o basis, and devoting one day to each let
ter take lot # pictures free, but he will
not deviate from alphabetical order.
Mai Llttlefield, the stockman and
banker, will shortly build handsome
residence on the site of his present home |
Just north of the university campus. The |
large and elegant frame inwhich he now |
lives will be taken apart in sections and |
rolled two block to another site. 1t seems |
almost impossible TO accomplish, but he |
saws he can do it.
The residents of Fair View park and |
tho south side generally are much in
terested at present in proposed dummy /
tlllt W JuuI SCONiDI. puNAl " SOilN |
would be great help to this part of Aus |
tin and something of the kind is badly |
needed. !
A young man, Jno. L. Clark by name, !
was recently killed at the /. 81 G.. n. yards !
here. He was coupling a moving train !
and caught his foot in frog. His body
was horribly mangled.
The II. & 7. c. railroad has offered the
dent of public instruction any
of mans as he may REQUIRE for
free distribution among the schools of the
state. The maps are accurate and Ella
borate and this is quite an act of kindness
as we'll as an advertising scheme on the
part of the HI. 81 Il. G..
There is not a mule car in Austin.
Every thing is electric and at last the poor
mule has rest. Austin is the only city
in the state where those cars have been
entirely done away with.
The s'Hotel Salge," three story brick
erected near the L. & e. n. depot, is hav.
ing quite run. 1t is a we'll conducted
hotel: neat and roomy and the proprietor
is an old hand at the business and knows
Just how to please his customers
The patients at the deaf and dumb, and
blind asylums, object to being called
inmates nor do they like TO have their
institutions called aSylums. They say
they are students and that they are at
tending an inStitute-that Is to say those
who can talk say so and the deaf and
dumb unfortunateS have to take theirs
out in wild gesticulations, in which they