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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-11
The Empty Compartment.

T-se porter seemed surprised, out
helped me ont and then got out my
things. As ha did so he exclaimed at
the STATE of tle carriage:
"T 10 has Laen pulling this stuffing
out here? We're You alone, sir? This
looks queer. Somebody's been cutting
the cushion. must speak to the sta
ton master"
But the station master was already
there. He bad noted the delay and
made his way to the carriage, glancing
at me rather strangely and then looking
into the compartment | had left.
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BEHIND PRISON BARS.
WHAT NAV BE SEEN IN ANY GREAT
HOME OF CRIMINALS.

Famous Receptacle for Convicts-The
Prison Odor- The Apparent Lack of
Strength in Visible Government.
A prison interior has strange, NOR
bid fascination for the average freeman.
There is such a general atmosphere Of
weird unreality about it all, accumulated
by the sternest realities of an iron disci-
pline. From. the burly, hard faced
guard, who leans upon his shining Win
chester in the sentry box on the walls,
to the pale consuihptive murderer, whose
hacking cough is the only sound that
breaks the stiffness of the prison hos
pital, everybody and thing is strangely
different from she outer world. Hun
dreds of silent, striped suited convicts
bending over their workbenches, walk
ing about the yard with arms folded or
marching in lockstep with eyes averted,
surround the visitor on every side.
There is peculiar odor born both by
the prison apartments and by the prison
inmates which is as marked and dis
tinctive as the odor of the hospital or Of
the steerage, 1t tells of life of torpid.
ity, barren of sunshine and of change.
Ittells of utensils and cells made stale
and foul with constant usage in spite Of
endless scrubbing and rinsing. The
prison is one great hive of yellow, close
cropped, hangdog looking humanity,
speaking to their keepers or to their
companion laborers at rare intervals and
in subdued tones, but possessed of some
secret freemasonry and means of COM
munication with one another and with
the outside world that battles the most
rigid discipline and searching inquisi.
ton.
The thing that strikes the visitor from
the outer world most is the apparent
weakness of the governing power. A
hundred convicts armed with knives two
feet long and sharp as razors are cutting
out great piles of clothing in room
guarded by half dozen apparently I'm.
armed keepers. Another company Of
surl y malefactors are plying the hammer
and chisel in stone yard, mingling with
handful of guards whose skulls could
be split in five seconds after the giving OF
a preconcerted signal. 1t is the vast bat
unseen slumbering power of the stat.
that holds them; the knowledge of The
Keen SIGHTED. iron uerNed marxsIl-- ; o.
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FLOWERS AND LOVE.
HUGE SUMS ARE OFTEN SPENT BY
SENTIMENTAL FELLOWS.

Baskets OF Rare blossoms That Cost the
Ardent Youth Hundreds of Dollars.
Florists in New York City Do Thriv-
ing Business in All Seasons.
II want to be hung up" When a dap
per young blood or an ole Gotham
dandy comes into a floral establishment
in Fifth avenue some bright fall after
noon and uses the above expression, at
the same time winking the other eye,
the tradesman knows that the customer
is in love, and that this is perhaps the
beginning of a long campaign in which
the principal scene is to be Cupid daily
ing amid the flowers.
Maybe she's an actress.
In that case there will be no limit to
the hanging up matter Every swell
Gotham florist knows that his customers
seldom pay cash for the floral decoration
to their love affairs. There is plenty of
risk in the business, but the profits are
so large that the tradesmen take the risks.
You would be surprised at the mum Der
of men in swell circles who play "broke"
to their florist.
"Chase me, chase me-"
This is what they say when the trades
man presents bill.
Thousands and thousands of dollars
are spent yearly by the young dudes and
the old chappies of Gotham on their ia
vorite actresses. Maybe Cholly goes to the
BLACK Crook" some night, and there on
sight falls under the fascination of the
chorus girls fair beauty. If you are
cynical or dyspepsia you will have your
doubts about her age and her hair; but
Cholly is in raptures all evening.
That night he hangs around the stage
entrance.
Next day he goes to his florist, takes
that worthy aside and tells him all
about it.
al think 800 basket will do, eh?"
Cholly mods.
81 will make you a basket four feet
high. 1t will be delivered over the foot
lights promptly at Q o'clock. 1t will be
decorated with very wide pink and blue
satin ribbon yard long. For a hun
bred extra | will put couple of doves
in the basket, concealed amid the roses.
The doves will have satin ribbons tied
to their feet. AS the basket is handed
over the lights the attendant shakes the
souvenir, and out fly the doves. All. old
fellow, what do you say to that, eh?"
Very we'll; hang me up for-r two
| hun'ned, dontcherknow."
1t is a common thing for swell New
York florist to prepare $500 basket fol
some actress. To order 500 basket i:
commonplace.
A $500 basket usually consists of culled
roses, generally American Beauties, Of
rare size and sweetness. The flowers are
cut with the stalks, and when placed il
the gold tinted basket stand four fee
high. The Offering is tricked out will
great widths of blue, gold, pink or vel
low ribbon. In the center of the bouque
80 - r~F+ Co. so+i- 80 lzna h. m.
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the outer walls. whose repeating rifle.
carry seventeen lives apiece, and tho
hopelessness of fight to world where
every mans hand would be against .sEi,
and even temporary success could only
end in death or lengtI ened punishm ant.
Principal Keeper Connaughton, of .olra
Sing prison, has spent seventeen years Of
his life among convicts and never car.
ried a pistol. Dozens /of times he has
been assaulted by desperate convicts, but
his brawny arm and heavy stick have
carried him through safely.
What was the narrowest escape Won
ever hadY' wondering visitor asked him
once.
when a fellow jumped on me with
knife as was sitting in my office" said
the keeper.
What did you do?'
''Sent him to the hospital when fin.
ished," was the laconic but expressive
answer.
''They have no heart" continued this
steely eyed convict driver with the
square, massive jaw. ''In the days
when we worked them in the quarries |
have seen three hundred of them break
away in body and go running down
through the yard to the railway track.
Only two guards with Winchesters
stood between this rushing mob and
freedom. The first three shots dropped
the first three convicts, and the rest
turned and ran for their lives back ia
quarters"
Among the curiosities of every prison
are the famous convicts, notorious mu..
derers, fallen bank presidents, clever
swindlers and romantic desperadoes of
every type. The oldest prisoner is also
trotted out for inspection by the spe.
cially favored; some old, white haired,
pale faced man, who for twoscore years
perhaps has not looked beyond the
prison walls, stands blinking before the
visitors. When he left the world the
civil war was unfought, France was an
empire, Germany mass of disorgan.
lied states. Outside the shining rive
still draws its water from the purple |
hill, and busy life flows on, but all is
dead to him.
AS the visitor stands in the little |
green courtyard at shutdown and sees |
company after company of sickly look.
ing prisoners issue from shops and store.
rooms and ind around the walks like |
so many huge centipeds, with the un.
dulations Of the lockstep, each man
with slop pail on his arm and loaf Of
bread in his hand; as he views them dis.
into the cryptlike dining
room, whose floor is wet with the slops
from a thousand tin coffee cups, or
watches them filing into the tier after
tier of gall, ries that lead to their mar.
row, stuffy title cells where the night |
is passed under lock and key; as he
comes through the low arched entrance
on his way to freedom and catches a
glimpse of Che waiting room, where a
prisoner stands with look of agony in
his dull face beside the sob shaken form
Of visiting sister or mother; as he
hears the great iron gate shut with a
harsh, jangling sound behind him and
slowly shakes off the horror and dis
grace that steep the very atmosphere of
the place, he realizes as he never did be-
fore that the way of the transgressor is
hard.-New York Tribune.
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Notice Of Filing Final Account.
THE STATE OF TEXAS. ,
COUNTY OF BExAR. (
County Court in Matters OF


County Court in Matters of Probate
$50 1To January Term, 1893.
The State of Texas to all Persons Interes,es,
IN the Administration of the Estate of
Elisabeth Fischer. deceased:
Henry Fischer, administrator of the estate
of Elisabeth Fischer deceased has fiIed his
nnal account in the County Court of BeTsr
county, which VIII be acted on at the January
Term, A; ID, 1893, of said Court at the Court
House thereof in the City of San Antonio
AFTER this notice shall have been duly pub
nsned Tor at least twenty ZOO days in some
newspaper pu blished in Bexar County, Tex
as; at which time all persons interested in
SAID estate may appear and make Objections
thereto, If they see proper.
witness, Thad. W. Smith, Clerk of the Conn.
ty Court of Bexar County and Seal
of said Court, at my office in San
lL..S.l Antonio. this 10th day of Decem.
Der, A. ID. 1892.
THAD. W. SMITH,
Clerk County Court Bexar County
By r. c. SYMINGToN, Deputy.
Issued same day.
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% ooaD IME TABLE
n q ~ Railroad
DEPARTURES.

u ~ RallrOad
DEPARTURES.
~ 81 LOUIS wa Iron Moui
tail or NJ K &T 6:soam
'Ur 81 Louis via Iron Mountoin s 90 d m
Sor Laredo org m
ARRIVALS
rom st, Louis via Iron oun
tain and M, K. and T q:3sam
from St, Louis via Iron Noun
am AM NJ. K and lo:55 p ID
"' |a'e''" S:35 N
outnern 9agIfic Railroad
THROUGH EXPRESS. EAST
caves for New Orleans, HsEto1.
f'' va weston l:SO pm and pm
ARRIVES FKoM THE EAST.
'rlVes from Ne" Orleans, Houston
4"'' 'Ta'vestor 500 and AIS o. m
THROUGH WEST.
caves tor San -rancisco. El paso
caves for Eagle Pass and Mex 1870 m
- s.o Saele rass 445p pm
& 4 Railroad
DEPARTURES.
caves s for Kerrville, daily except
, caves ~ co,u 400 p m
Wa o, daily o..o
Leaves for Corpus Christi, Rockno 1t q "
Beeville, daily 70 INV,
Leave for Kerrville, daily except
Monday and Sunday, at 7:so am
ARRIVALS.
from kerrville, daily excep, .
Sunday s.,.
From kerrville daily except SUNDAY
and Monday reg - 20,
from Corpus Christi, Rockport
Beeville, daily 11o,
from Galveston, Houston and
Waco, tally s1s
mallory .teamer sail from Galveston
'Verv We nesnav and Saturday
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usual pTOtestatioHs ofGegard are written
on scented note paper. This is the open
ing of the romance.
January.
They are rare American Beauties.
They cost in Fifth avenue $3.50 per rose.
That is eighteen dollars dozen. Maybe
she gets two dozen day in big blue
and gold box.
Cholly pays for these.
There are hundreds of high rollers in
Gotham, says the exclusive florist, "who
spend enough each season to keep a
family-spend it on flowers for the giddy
queen of the footlights and upon their
lady loves.
at is not uncommon to receive an Or
der from some young dude to deliver to
his lady friend bouquet each morning,
say for a month. He will plank down
$3.50 with the order. For this sum we
are to send little Miss Million a buncl
of selected roses for thirty mornings.
There is to be an air of romance over the
gift. 1t is to be sent to the house
promptly at 0 o'clock each morning. No
note or name is to accompany it. Little
Miss Million is not to know, you know.
OF course he will call each night and
see his flowers on the piano. Maybe one
night he will be rewarded by seeing her
wear one beautiful rose in her yellow
hair. am sure that is worth $3.50 to
any young chappie."
There is no limit to the money that
may be paid for floral decorations for a
swell Gotham funeral. The late la
mented Patrick S. Gilmore's funeral was
made memorable with offerings whose
value ran up into the thousands, but it
is sweet to know, however, that many
of these flowers came from the common
people, who loved him so well in life.
General Grants funeral was graced
swell florists say, with more fiowers,
than New York ever saw before or sincss
In Gotham the floral emblem" holdsl
full sway in the matter of appropriate,
tributes to death.
In Gotham, if you are an athlete.
your friends will probably remember
you with a pair of "fioral boxing gloves"
at your demise.
In Gotham, if you die at half past 8, !
your friends will probably remember
you with a grand floral hall clock" the !
hands stopped at half past s.
In Gotham, if you die letter carrier, !
your friends will probably remember
you with floral lamppost and mail !
box" with letter to yourself on top of
the box, addressed with your name and
the legend, AT rest in heaven"
In Gotham, if you die railroad man,
your friends will probably remember |
you with floral train of cars" engine |
and all.
In Gotham, if you are connected with
the Brooklyn bridge and should chance
to die, your friends will probably re-
member You with a ''fioral Brooklyn
bridge" maybe nine feet long.
In Gothai If you are to die dude or
a chappie, your friends will probably |
remember you with floral swiggeF-
cite case" be ring the words on the cover:
...........'''''.' '...'...'.''' .'.'''''''.
CHOLLY-GONE UP HIGHER.
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CHOLLY-GONE UP HIGHER

New York Herald.
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The Area of the Moon.

Recent astronomical calculations have
caused the star gazers" to announce
that the surface of the moon is about as
great as that of Africa and Australia
combined, or about equal to the area of
North and South America without the
islands.-ExChange.
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OuU.
The guard came up.
at was put on at B, sir. The
train was full, and all the stock had
been sent on for the races: it was the
only one they had, understood"
"That is so, sir" said one of the
racing men, putting his head out of the
window, land dirty enough it is. too:
but here we are, and here we mean to
stay, and We'll be glad to be moving
toward F., if convenient"
| thought the station master looked
inquiringly from me to the man who
spoke, and back again to me. His face
was pale, and he seemed about to speak,
but looking at his watch, only signaled
with his hands to the guard, and then
stood apparently in much perplexity as
the train slowly left the station. Then
he glanced at me.
"You look cold, sir" he said: "come
and have cup of coffee in my room.
i suppose you will go on by the next
train?'
"Would You mind telling me, sir" he
asked in the whisper | so well remem-
bered my small brother adopting in the
dead of night when we were boys. and
which always made me feel creepy"
chow that door came open?'
That's just what | don't know" |
said, in the would be reassuring tone |
J always used to that small brother, and
with the old result, namely, of blending
our fears together and doubling their in
tensity.
81 was asleep mean had been
asleep, and perhaps kicked it."
"Ahr breathed the station master.
WHY ! ventured to ask. after a
silence.
"Only that four years ago, on the first
day of F. races, that same carriage
ran into our station with its doors open,
as it did today, and inside was woman
in dead faint. She came to herself in
an hour and talked of a murder"
"But that carriage-how do you
know"
"This is how | know. SIR" and the
man got up and shut the door, which
opened onto the platform, and pulled
his chair near mine when he came back
Some seven or eight years ago | was
master here and waiting for the train
passing through to the races, as it might
be today, and as she came in | saw
door open, and going forward found the
compartment in disorder, a knife on the
floor, blood on it and on the seat and
carpet and slit in the stuffing of the
cushion at the back just at the height
well. at the height you saw it, sir, if it's
as l think. We sent men back along
the line and soon found girls body
stabbed ard thrown on the metals"
Thrown on the liner
eyes, so they said. 1t was all found
out quickly enough when her old father
came to identify her; he said she'd been
robbed, too, for she had one hundred
pounds in notes on her when she was
murdered"
"And the mamie did not escape?'
mo, the police guessed what he had
been up to, and traced him to the races,
where they made out he had lost every
note he stole. He had been betting
largely on one horse
"John of Gaunt," cried eagerly, but
with some of the recent terror on me
o0ain
"Yes, that was it, sir; you've hear
the story before?"
shook my head and he went on:
''Well, they followed him pretty well
all over the country, public feeling was
SO hard against him that every one
knew he could not hide long, and at last
they came upon him half starved in a
barn; he faced them and shot himself,
and osoorn1 hanging"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-11

An apple grown near Portersville,
Cal, is reported to weigh almost two
pounds and measure fifteen inches in
circumference.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-11
A BARGAIN FoR PaINTERs

For Sale: 800 lbs. Of BREWER Roman.
air condition, abundance of sorts, at
10 and 20 cents q pound. Address.
Il Il tt L. b, JOHNSON, LIGHT Office,
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-NoWlIsLrHEr lime Toby .

property Is when people are anxious to
sell. You can secure some QeDujne har.
gains in ranch or city property, improves
and unimproved, by calling on Jno. r.
hame-eton & Co. No. 104 East Commerce
street.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-11
No. 1901.

Came to hand December 10th, 1892. AT
O'Clock p. m. and executed on the 18th day Of
december, lSg2, by ordering publication in
San Antonio Daily LIGHT Al
JNO. P. CAMPBELL,
Sheriff BeXar County,
BY JAS. NJ. VAN RIPPER, Deputy.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-11
FOR SALE,

Iwo-St story brick residence of 8 rooms
with all modern improvements, cellar
with cement floor. Hot air furnace, sta
tionary laundry tubs. Hot and cold
water bath and closet. First class stable
Size OF lot 104 by ITO feet south and east
exposure. This property is situated on,
Dlgnowity hill and is within ten minutes.
walk OF thep ostoffice and is now offered,
at bargain by
JOINT HAMILTON & Co,
IA Z. Commerce street.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-10

II, fancy, II, G. Ogden, Augustus Pol
lack, Louis Colmar, W. I. Peterson,
Robert Simpson, :. L. Brice, William
L. SIifel, DR.. Aschman, Hullihen Quar-
rier,
Fire Works - Ed Booking, L. B..
Franzheim, II. h. Grimm, George Bre'
mer, Peter MUM,
Street Demonstration-J. A. Eiess,
Fred Park, Henry Baer, George S.
Feeney, +. NJ. Milllgan, W. d. Nc
Mechen, George Mathison, j, A, Miller,
Fred Happy, II. G. MotTat, Paul Rey-
mann, William Travis, n. Reisler, Cecil
Robinson, NJ, Lotus, Charles Rohrlg,
George Bowers, II, B. Baguley. O, /,
Brown, Louis @. Stifel, Albert Whlta-
ker, q. @. Hewitt, j. NJ. Birch, John K,
List, Jason Stamp, Charles Goethe, O.
n. Hancher, L. W. Franzhelm, John
Decoration-C. ]. Rawling, Henry
speyor, W. A. Wilson, Q. h Tracy,
George L. House, +. II. Lange, Henry
Bieberson, Charles Schmidt, William
dillingham;, Ed Mendel, Dave BayhR,
John Waterhouse, W.. W. Irwin, II, O,
Myer, Fred schwertfeger, s. S. Bloch,
William Stone, Charles HorstmRn,
Hugo Loos.
Nnanco--Thomas o'Brien, W. B.
Simpson, A. Reymann, Joseph Speidel,
4. +. Jepson, Morris Horkheimer, H..
+. Behrens, John q. Hoffman,, 81.
Reception-B. +. Caldwell, Jacob
Kindelberger, George Connel, George
W. Eckhart, A. D. Garden, D. n. Phil
lips, james evine, David Dinger, Sam.
uel Hazlett, N, b. Scott, William
Cruickshank, Albert Franzheim. DR.. r,
W, Hazlett, r. T. Devries, William
Erskine, L, B, Carney, George Hamm,
Harry w. Mcclure, @. w. Seabright,
Judge J.. j. Jacob, Judge G, =, Boyd, H..
NJ. Russell, W. II. Hearne, Louis Steep.
rod, II, Quarter, ], N, Vance, J. W.
Grub.
The committees will meet this week
for organization and to commence work.
The committee meetings will be held
in the chamber OF commerce rooms.
The finance committee will meet this
afternoon at 4 o'clock; committee on
speakers and entertainment tomorrow
evening at s o'clock; committee on
street demonstration tomorrow even.
ing at s o'clock; committee on decora-
ton and display Friday evening at s
o'clock; committee on fire works Friday
evening at $3.50 o'clock; committee OH
music Saturday at s o'clock; committee
on reception Monday evening at s
o'clock. The committee on %transporta.
ton will meet this evening at s o'clock,
A committee from the general Column
bian committee met q committee ofthe
Beethoven society last night, and it was
found that there need DO no clashing
between the two organizations, as tho
Beethoven is as anxious for the success
OF the Columbian Fourth celebration as
arc other organizations. An amicable
arrangement for the use OF the fair
grounds alter tho street pageant will
be made soon.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-10
AnoUr pNopLE
Strangers in the City and whOolIag Folks
Abroad.

Strangers In the City aud Wheeling Folks
Abroad.
]. NJ. Conway, Of Fairmont, is ut the
Stamm.
r. G. Caldwell, Of sistersville, was in
town yesterday.
Rev. Herman Haas left yesterday on
a visit to Marietta.
S. A. Marshall, OF sistorsvillo, is reg
istered at the Stamm.
Robert Mccormick, OF Sistersville,
registered at the Stamm yesterday.
Mr.. Joseph PAUL left over tho Pan
Handle yesterday for Philadelphia.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Harper, accompanied
by his son, Sam, left yesterday for New
York.
Fred Berger, OF Moundsville, passed
through the city yesterday on his way
to Rosalie, Washington.
Roy Naylor, OF the Eutning NcWs stan,
was able to be about yesterday after d
long seigo OF typhoid fever.
". o. Medley, of Sistersvillo, A. B.
Cooper, of Parkorsburg, and G. NJ.
Coyne, Of Warrington, were among the
West Nirginians at the popular Behler
yesterday.
Yesterday Rev. Mr.. Braun, OF tho
Eighth ward, Rev. D. schroth, OF Hell
vetia, and Rev. Mr.. Wirz, OF Bollaire,
left for Canton, Ohio, to at.
tond tho session Of the st, Johns dis.
trict synod Of the German evangelical
church,
Among tho local knights that left last
evening over the b. 4 o., to attend the
annual state conclave OF knights TEN.
plar to DO held in Martinsburg, were
Alfred PAUL, Ed q. schoen, John g.
RiheldatFer, F, II. Warden, 4. b. Nc.
Lain, John Zorn, Ed Wheat, Archie T.
Hupp and =. Warehouse, jr.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-10
TRUSTEES SALE.
sALE.

by virtue Of dood of trust mada by John T.
Carlin and Mary T. Carl u, his wife. to me Us
trustee, dated March =. lSQl. recorded in tho
office OF the Clerk OF tho County Court OF Ohio
County, West Virginia, ia Deed VI Trust Book
No, ~. page $40, ! will soil at tho north front
door OF the Court House OF said county, on
SATURDAY, THE 9OTH DAY OF MAY, 1891
commencing at 10 O'Clock a. m the following
described property silults and being In tho city
OF Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia, that IL
10 say: Lot numbered twelve In Block No 2 o.
tho plat OF the ''Old Fair Ground Property" on
the west side OF Wheeling Island, in the seventh
ward OF said city.
The title osaid property is beloved to DO per
feet, hut selling As trustee, l will convey only
the little vested In me by said deed OF trust
Terms OF SALE;-Ono.thlrd and as much moro
US the purchaser elects to pay In cash on tho day
OF sale the balance In two equal installments az
one and two years, notes bearing interest from
tho day OF sale to be given Tor the deferred pay.
ments, tho title TO DO retained until payment Is
made In tnll. W. ], W, COWDEN, Trustee,
W. II. HALLER, Auctioneer, apl6