San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-11-03
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plan to carry religion into homes.
The Electric club, a social organ
ization of this city, gave an enter
tainment Monday night for the
benefit of the Louisiana flood suf-
ferers.
The Erster Deutscher Frauen
Wohlthaetigkeits Verein meets
once a month here. That is often
enough to move such a name.
This city has Cinnamon who
carry stocks of cigars, ETC., and
fruits ard vegetables in connection
with their laundries.
The Salvation Army closed its
ten days compaign in this city
Sunday night by giving grand
rally at Harmony hall. The meet
ings were well attended, and they
made good many converts. The
visitors left Monday.
The Sunday closing law has been
pretty generally observed; but
few violated the order and they
were saloon keepers.
VidO Yascovich, who attempted
suicide While in st. Mary's hos
pital, died Saturday night.
This city is needing rain badly,
to replenish the cisterns with
drinking water, as complaints are
heard almost daily of cisterns "go-
ing dry"
Burglars entered the gunsmith
store of Barba & Son, Sunday
night, and robbed it of two fine
guns, valued at $40.
The city engineer. began work
on the West Broadway improve
ments Monday, and promised to
have a good roadway completed
by dedication time of the new
bridge.
Last Saturday the commits
sioner's court of Galveston county
accepted the new steel wagon
bridge. 1t is 11,309.5 feet in length
and claimed to be the longest wa
gon bridge in the world, and cost
$l91,9S6.
1t is announced that next Satur-
day evening at the First Presby-
terrain church Introductory services
will be held for the beginning of a
series of revival meetings, COM
mencing Sunday evening in tent,
to be erected for the purpose on
Twentieth street and Avenue l.,
large enough to accommodate
1000 people. A. Hartwell Pratt, the
evangelist, will conduct services
assisted by Drs. Scott and Lamar,
and probably others.
Steamships cleaI Ell with cargoes
for foreign ports as follows: Sao-
pia for Havre, 6,315 bales cotton :;
Strathdee for Liverpool, 6,S32 bales
cotton and 1884 oak stoves; Blag-
don for Hamburg, 251 bales cotton,
2O,OS7 sacks cotton seed meal and
10,640 sacks oil cake; Golden Cross
for Liverpool, 1920 bales cotton
and 739 sacks oil cake; Tanfa for
Liverpool, 5,551 bales cotton, 1908
sacks cotton seed New York City
for London, 200 bales cotton, $3.50
sacks cotton seed meal and 1902
sacks oil cake; Maristow, from
Valasco, for Rotterdam, 1880
sacks meal, LILY sacks oil cake,
$50 barrels seed oil and 1887 cedar
logs.
Total bales of cotton on ship
board and not cleared, 56,4S6.
| stated in a recent letter that
the fruit stand prices as well as
others were eXorbitant and felt a
timidity in giving the prices of the
first named. To give the prices it
would read like eXaggeratiOns new
ertheless be true. / inquired Of
the proprietor of such an "estab-
lishment," an Italian GALL such
merchants" here are Italians,
Greeks, Dagos, and others, whom l
am unable at present to classify
of average intelligence-a fact
which can seldom be said of such
"merchants"-why they held their
commodities" at such high rates,
and was informed that the fault
was principally on account of the
wholesale fruit dealers and COM
mission men here, because they
imposed high rates and were COM
PEELED to accede; or do without. He
stated that the imposition became
too great to endure and that he
had correspondent with wholesale
dealers in other cities and had
learned that he could buy Califor-
mia and imported fruits in New
Orleans and St. Louis cheaper than
here, and was now ordering from
those cities; that he had to pay 4Oe
per box for a certain kind Of Cali
fornia grapes here, which ordered
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