San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-24
DALLAS LETTER.
From Our Special Correspondent

DALLAS, Tex, Sept. 20, 1894.
The school opened Monday morn
ing. The attendance was not so
great as on former opening days.
This is hard to account for. Some
attribute it to the scare over dip
iberia others to the fact that many
of the out-of-town people have Lot
returned from their summer out
ings; others, still, think it is at
tributed to the more plausible
cause; that the first weeks work is
mainly spent in directing, assort-
ing and classifying and grading
pupils. Truth it is, the first week
amounts to nothing, but there will
always be that first week to con-
tend against, In this the old teach
ers have the advantage Of the new
and less experienced ones.
The board are making a strong
| effort, it seems to do away with
| the last half hour of school. In
every grade school is dismissed a
half hour earlier than was the
case last year. The lowest primary
grades are lnow dismissed at two
o'clock. This is all well enough
were it not for the short 80 min
| utes noon recess. In all the schools
the pupils are required to form in
line for egress and ingress. In one
of the buildings the third story
is used. The children on the
! ground floor are not allowed to
break line till the last rooms joins
the procession. When the line is
| dismissed there is regular
stampede make for the drinking
places. The lunch is hastily conl
sumed another drinking spell.
and the gong sounds to get in line
1t is all nice for the teachers, but it
is hard on the children, who, when
excused from the school room, are
most generally punished by being
kept in at play time.
Rev. M. M. Davis, pastor of the
Central Christian church, is in re-
ceipt of a letter from Chas. Baker,
the missing Denton preacher, who
so mysteriously disappeared some
months ago. In Mr.. Davis letter
was enclosed one to Mrs. Baker,
wife of the strange acting man.
The letter to Mrs. Baker is couched
in affectionate terms, but states he
has lost his wife's love, that he has
had suffering enough without that
and that is not his fault, but mis-
fortune. The man claimed to be
very ill in Sacramento, CAL, and
that it was with difficulty that he
could write. The why's and where
fores of his leaving home is still an
unsolved and untold mystery.
| The examining trial OF w. +.
Bruce, charged with making false
reports to the comptroller Of cur
rency, was continued by United
States Commissioner Lehman I'M
til October 8.
The executive session of the
officers of the Texas Woman's Con-
gress was held yesterday after
noon in the parlors of the Windsor
hotel. The meeting was to perfect
final arrangements for the annual
convention of the Congress to be
held during the fair. 1t was de-
cided at the meeting yesterday
that four days, October 81 and
| November to 3 inclusive, should
be devoted to the work Of the Con-
gress. On Tuesday preceding the
converting of this Congress, will be
a meeting of the Woman's Press
| association.
For want of the wherewith to
maintain it the home for fallen
women, is about to be a thing of
the past. The Kings Daughters,
under whose management it has
been, are pleading to every one to
send them just one dollar to help
support this home for the friend
less and fallen women.
| Fred Boulivare, of Montague
county, charged with introduce
ing liquor in the Indian Terri.
ritory had an examining trial
a few days ago before United
States commissioner Ledinum,
Failing to furnish bond in the sum
of $3.50 he was remauded to jail.
John Morrow, who killed James
| ONeal, is in jail. Morrow's wife
worked in the cotton mills, O'Neal
clerked in the cotton mills grocery
store owned by Nickless. 49,
TO THE PUBLIC.