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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-01
An Indian Prince at Cricket.

NEW YORK, August 31.--The
cricket team of the Cambridge
University, England, will play at
Dingston, Staten Island, Monday
and the two following days, against
an all-New York team. The team
comes to this country on invitation
of the Associated Cricket clubs of
Philadelphia. The visiting team
is thought to be the strongest
amateur team that has ever Wis
tied this country. 1t includes
fourteen men in all. But ofall the
men who will be seen here, it is
likely that no one will excite more
interest than Kumar Shri Ran
iitsinjhi. He is an Indian Prince
of color, and his success as a crick-
eter is all the more extraordinary
when it is remembered that he
knew absolutely nothing about the
game until he went to college in
England. He developed fast, how
ever, and he is today one of the
first batsmen in England. Only
recently, playing for the Hawkes.
against st. Johns college, he car
ried his bat for IVA, while the week
before he made SO at Cambridge.
He is doing great work for Mary
lebone this season, and his batting
and fielding always provoke great
enthusiasm.
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Tim. Campbell toI Contest.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3l.-Clerk
Kerr, of the House Of Representa-
tives, has received I'll be testimony
for the contestant in the case of
Timothy j. Campbelpvs. Harry @.
Miner, from the Eighth District of
New York. This is the first Off
cial information that the clerk had
received of the fact that the well
known New York ex-Congressman
intended to contest the election of
his theatrical opponent.
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livered to city hospital from city
wood yard.
Commenced rolling RiverJave-
nue.. -. .--,--exsN
Had the cutters cleaned out on
South Flores street, from Military
plaza to Arsenal street. $3.50 ---@
Had the cutters cleaned out on
Romano street, from North Flores
street to Main avenue. 49, sss.-s..--:
Rolled Camden street from Main
avenue to $50 feet east of Richmond
avenue.
Engineer H. G. McCarvell worked
two days in repairing steam roller
No. ,. So ~
Had four loads of cinders hauled
to city police patrol stable.
Put four inches of new gravel on
West Houston street to Moth
Leona street, and commenced roll
ing same.
Worked one steam roller and one
wagon sprinkler six days on River
avenue.
Had the cutters cleaned out ON
Richmond avenue, from Dallas
street to its intersection with Main
avenue.
Four teams worked six days
grading Las Moras street, between
Monterey and San Fernando
streets.
Had four loads of gravel hauled
to bridge over river ON South Ala
mo street to fill up approaches to
bridge.
City prisoners, on the 10th,
cleaned city hall and finished grub
bling and cutting the brush from
Lubbock street; Goth, grubbed and
cleaned the alley between Balti-
more and Lexington avenues; Dist
and odd, cut the brush and grubbed
CARA street; 23d, completed Gar
"a street.
FIFTH WEEK.
Had four loads of rock hauled to
Buena Vista street bridge and to
schooI house No. s and cleaned the
yard of same.
Finished cleaning the cutters on
Richmond avenue.
Finished repairing West Hous-
ton street from East street to North
Leona street by putting on four
inches of gravel and rolling same.
Filled up washout to bridge on
South Alamo street with stone re-
moved from Lavaca street school
! house.
City prisoners cleaned city hall
and are cleaning and grubbing city
cemetery.
One steam roller worked five
days on River avenue.
One team hauled pris9ners 81
days for city jaile @
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The Instl,ute ylsfsnce.

PARIS, Aug. .3L-The hundredtk
anniversary of the} foundation Of
the Institute of y France will be
celebrated in Paris on October %
and three following days. Invita-
'tions to be present have been is
sued to all the f9 reign honorary
and corresponding members, and
it is confidently exb ected that one
of the most represeh tative gather
ings of the century, men distin-
guished in sciencds art, and liter
ature, will be see1 in the French
capital during th9 period named.
The president of TIL + Republic will
hold one if not twd receptions in
honor of the event.
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A Just Sentence

NEW YORK, Aug. S1.-George r.
Rogers, who is extradited from
Morristown, n. j., for abandoning
his 5-year-old son, Jas, Melton
Rogers, in the Continental Hotel,
in this city, three weeks ago, has
been sentenced by Recorder Golf,
in General Sessions, to two years
and two months in the States pris-
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DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN.
LATEST OFF THE WIRES FROM
OVER THE WORLD.
CRISP NEWS CONCERNING LATE I'M :
PORTANT OCCURRENCES.

Secretary Lamont is Liberal-Lib-
erty Bell Goes Travelling Again.
Yachtsman Iuman is Drowned.
Alfaro's Ecuador is Recognized.
New Whisky Trust-German Pa
per seizure-Revolt in Spain Elk
pected.
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The Seasons First Nights.

NEW YORK, Aug. 31.--Monday
will be a great night at the the
aires, many season opening events
taking place. Lillian Russell will
recommence her warbling at Alb
bey's in the "Tzigane." leila
Nicolaus, who is suing George
Gould for $4,000, it is reported,
makes her debut at the Gaiety
Theatre, formerly st. James Hall,
in a minor part in the "White
Crook" a burlesque. "The Bath
ing Girl" by Rupert Hughes and
Robert Coverley, comic opera
satirizing American foibles, will
open at the Fifth Avenue theatre,
Mr.. Potter and Mrs. Bellew begin
the "Queen's Necklace" the Paris
success, at Days. Della Fox vii
produce at Palmer's her new conf,
opera. ''Fleur de Lys," b&z6pd
win and EurstflsS I'D - 50 ~
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STREET WORK.

The following is the street COM
missioner's report for the month
of August.
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tBy Special Wire to the Sunday LIGHT.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-01
Rain at Georgetown

GEORGETOWN, Texas, Aug. 81
(SpeciaD-A fine rain fell yester-
day, but it Is thought too late to do
cotton any good, as it has stopped
growing. .
Rains two weeks ago, that 1t
was supposed would make top
crop, came too late, and experienced
cotton men claim there won't be
any top crop, and the present will
all be marketed before the LIST
of November.
Conservative estimates place the
amount of cotton to be marketed
here this season between 5000 and
5000 bales against $4,000 bales last
season.
Receipts up to last night are 80
bales, Al bales being marketed TO-
- commanding SO TO . cents:
chpJtz, a cotton buyer OF
l. LONDONChived TO-DAY.
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l street commissioner. $ l2O 90
/ street sweeper. ..... 140 90
80 teams worked 1914 days
at SO per day 49,. 1,153 80
10 carts worked l67 days
at 1925 per day ........ 375 60
81 labOrers worked 4O34
days at $3.50 per day SOB 50
2 foremen worked As days
at 1925 per day ...... los 90
4 engineers worked All
days at So per day. 2O6 %
3 carpenters worked 229
at $3.50 per day .. 56 %
Forage for one horse, Car
penter James Downey.. 10 90
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Finished rolling South East
street..
Had the cutters cleaned out on
Monterey street, from South East
street to Frio street.
Had the cutters cleaned -Yt on
West Commerce street Vi
tary plaza to Laredo n
both intersections of L;LEAD.
nv 9oJ ~ bo1o aliod un ~ Beer" mar
s+ona or,lSeuoIi, ovor Nr San Antoni
Rolled San Pedro a. :
Romano to Warren St., t-s, a. a..
Had the cutters cl re sgss,,
Arsenal street, from x1o4s-s a {
street to bridge over q VI q
:, Had two cords of ste
pt3
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DUNDEE, Aug. 31.-The back
bone of the Jute workers strike is
broken and four factories opened
the doors this morning and the
men began working. Most of the
other factories will resume on
Monday. This is the result of the
manufacturers declaring that if
the men did not resume work
the factories would close for an
indefinite period.
KEEPING UP THE GOLD RESERVE.
WASHINGTON Aug. 31.-It is
generally recognized here that the
acknowledgment bond syndicate
will not permit the treasury gold
reserve to, fall below the 81, 100000
mark. They yesterday deposited
$1,000,0O0 gold in exchanadenfor
Ilegas fRnders, nv soul. my nerveshe
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06

persistently wrong to the bitter end
ing. Not a Cleveland prophecy has
been fulfilled; not Cleveland promise
of finance but has been broken. Why
should he in his radical departure
from platform and principle, from the
very traditions Of democracy as well
as the provisions of the constitution
itself, be followed by men who profess
themselves to be patriots or Demo
Gratis. He is a New York president,
presiding for New York; he is pup!
of the banks, reciting lessons or
finance from the lips and at the knees
of banks. He belongs to Wall street
and the east. Why, then, should a
south and west and middle north
surrender their every interest to one
who is either ignorant or willfully
inimical to those interests"
1t is very evident that the Cleve-
land programme cannot be carried out
except by the aid of the Republican
votes. Bland, Bryant and even Wilson
will fight it in the House, and Mills,
of Texas has opened upon it in Sen
ate. Watch the result. If the bill is
passed by Republican votes the Re-
publican party cannot take advantage
of the Democrats and charge that
they alone are responsible for the
dreadful disas terS that are to follow.
In the meantime the gold is rushing
out of the country at such rate that
we will soon be on silver basis.
The crisis is upon the country.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
AN ILLITERATIVE ATTACK.
They Want Silvery Silence.

There would be lull in language
now if Ignatius Donnelly had not a
newspaper through which to scatter
abroad the debris of a wind-swept and
storm tossed vocabulary. Pennoyer
no longer pours plentous platitudes
over perturbed and pestered people,
The wall of the woeful Waite has
ceased to wake the welkin. Lewelling
no longer lamentS the loss of the
lovely Lease. The alteration of the
anarchical Altgeld, with the ugly
usurper Uncle Samuel. has been hush
ed. The Silvery speech of Stone, of
Missouri, has simmered into silence.
The bowling, hilarious Hogg has hid
den his head in the hollOWS of Texas.
and Tillman has turned from the
tumult of truculent teetOtallers to
trouble the tarrying tippler Over
all the wind-swept land peace would
be brooding today but for Donnelly,
who still insists upon taking the bung
out of fresh barrel of language
every week. 1t is probably too much
to hope that some day he will get
tired of his own disturbance and real
ize that what the people of Minnesota
ask of him at present is just what the
Irish judge requested of the prisoner
when he said: eve want nothing
from you but silence, and devilish lit
tie of that. "-Minneapo.is Times.
Yes; you inconsequential, illogical,
incompetent, incomprehensible ig-
noramuses: you association of assorted
assininical jack-asses, you have reck-
lessly rushed the public into ruthless
ruin, and now you are solitious for
soft and sweet and superficial silence.
"You may cry peace. peace; but the re
is no peace The voice of protest
pertubs your pestiferous personality;
but we shall thrust the terrible truth
down your truculent throat. until
with hellish howls you "holler" hold
enough!
Yes: "devilish little silence" will
you get out of US. May you SILVER
and shake, under our assaults, till the
shining shekels of Shylock, the per
fidious and polluted price of your per-
sonal probity, trembling tumble from
your torn and tattered trousers: and
you proceed to play the patriotic part
of protector of the poor and party
plundered people. Perish Plutocracy
and live Liberty. Selah! l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06

sights, and he felt at home. Every moving
car he sided up to like the third horse who
helps car up a hill, and the driver was
in constant danger of getting his shins
barked, while his steed blandly renewed his
acquaintance with old friends. Riding
rules went by the board, and the guards
man surrendered all pride. gave up think
ing of the figure he cut, and devoted him
self to pulling the animal about by the bit
and urging him on with fierce application
of the spurs.
In this way he managed to keep moving
till the street car barns were reached. There
stood a car with it's horses at the drinking
fountain The guardsman immedia tely
found himself lined up beside them by his
prancing steed, and no amount of squirting
and no ingenuity would avail to make the
charger start up. The drivers and the
groOms gathered to hear the explanat ton
of the soldiers trouble, and welcome their
old four footed friend home
How to get him started again was a Sc
rious problem. The rider had enough self
respect left to prevent his dismounting and
leading the horse away. Finally the car
conductor proposed new tactics That was
drilling by bells. He rang the car bell The
car horse braced himself and pulled. Be-
fore he knew 1t he was on his way, leaving
the street car behind, and was followed by
the shouts of the grooms Before he left
Buffalo the guardsman had perfected a plan
for cavalry drill by bell signals. Only the
cessation of the troubles prevented his at
tempting to put 1t in operation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
HOW 1T WORKS.
Effect of Silver In Mexico.

A Denver manufacturer has recent
ly returned from business trip to
Mexico. He says that American
trade with Mexico is rapidly falling
away. The reason is the high rate of
exchange made necessary by the diff
ference in value of the dollars of the
two countries. Relatively to com
modities Mexican dollars are the
same in value as they were before 1873,
while the American dollars have
doubled in value. That is, ton of
wheat or bale of cotton will COM
mand only half as many dollars
in the United States as in Mexico,
The result is, that when a
mining or other operator in Mexico
purchases plant of machinery in the
United States, say at $500, he is
compelled to pay 5000 for it in his
own money. The difference is the ex-
change rate between the two coun-
tries. Mexicans are getting very tired
of this, with the result that they are
not only curtailing foreign purchases,
but are rapidly, under the protection
which this high rate of exchange af-
fords. building up manufactures of
their own and becoming independent
of the United States and Europe
Denver News.
Precisely. ''The gold basis" means
getting down to the level, of Euro
pean wretchedness.. Look at the mis-
cradle half-starved Huns and Rus
SLAMS and Italians, and you Americans
can see what the ''gold basis" will
bring you and your children to.
Think how prosperous we were dur
ing the civil war, with gold at one
hundred per cent premium! NJ
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
Is 1t Possible.

We are sorry for the embar-
easements of the Penny Press, for
Mr.. Blethen is an able and energetic
man, and deserves the highest sue
cess. He says one thing, however, in
explaining the troubles of the paper,
that astOnishes us:
Had times revived after the cleo
tion, as everybody predicted they could,
this step on the part of the bondhold-
ers concerning the Penny Press would
not have been necessary"
Is it possible that so clear-headed a
man as Alden J. Blethen could have
been deceived by the clamor of the
fools and tools of the Republican
party? We cannot believe it. /. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
We Said So.

And now Geo. L. Becker is reap
pointed Railroad Commissioner for
three years, at $4,000 year, and per
quisites, or $4,000 in all. We tolo
the public so in our speeches. And
the party of Jefferson and Jackson
has sunk to such depths that not even
blush Of shame suffuses it's counter
ance, as it sees it's late leader walk III
and accept the price of leading honest
men into the Republican camp.
We grieve to see ancient greatness
so shockingly dishonored.
With what face can they rally their
cohorts in 1896 and call themselves
the friends of the people? I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06

mllet, textiles and prepared meats, which
comes up from the South by way of the
grand canal to supply the teeming mill
subsistence. 1t is the city next in i'm
portance to the capital in all this part Of
the empire. Being Chinese, it is eminently
Chinese only in the matter of dirt and
squalor, a trifie more So" as our Ameri-
can friends would put it. The mud and
bamboo houses one-storied, and lie
huddled together without the least SEM
blance of arrangement The Lord only
knows how the families who inhabit these
places manage to find room to eat and
sleep and have their being in them.
The streets, like all other streets in all
other Chinese towns, are unpaved and I'M
level. cart with springs would come to
grief on them in a quarter of an hour, for
the ruts are sometimes feet deep. They
are made the receptacles for the refuse of
all the houses lying along the route and
there are night-soil contractors to
abate. Something of the nature of a
cleansing process is effected by the rains
which come regularly at the fag-end of the
summer. In the wet season the streets
are small rivers. In the dry season they
are many inches deep with dust, and give
birth to most of the foul epidemics under
the sun. Now and again the cholera
comes The smallpox is there practically
all the year round, and the number of
people whose faces are SCARED deep by its
ravages Is standing wonder to the UNI
sophisticated traveller from the sanitary
cities of the West.-Fortnightly Review.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
The Only Thing,

The only thing the Democrats have
done, that Thomas Jefferson can con-
template without blushing, is the
adoption of the Income Tax,-and
that they stole from the Populists
Now, let them steal another of our
planks,- the election of the United
States Senators by the people; ano
Andrew Jackson will poke his head uI
out of his grave and say to them
you dear old lunk-heads,-you are
really coming to your Senses"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06

debts, no mortgages, no tramps, no
poverty. The premium was 'pro-
lection" which separated us from the
abysses of the old world. To day the
silver-basis countries are the most
prosperous in the world. Mexico will
advance while we recede. Either
this country must rise above the level
of the rest of mankind or our constitu-
tion must be displaced by European
systems Of government. There is no
other alternative. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
CAVALRY TACTICS
Were All Right With the Introduce
fian af BelI SignRls.


He was National Guard cavalryman,
says the New York Tribune. When at
home he rode fine charger and made a
stern and martial appearance as he es-
corted the governor down Broadway or
galloped across the fields for drill at Van
Cortlandt Park. But when he went to
Buffalo to parol the railroad tracks and
lumber yards the state mounted him on
a superannuated car horse. The car horse
has number branded on his hoof and still
labored under the impression that he was
drawing something heavy. When out in
the fields away from car tracks it was pos
sible to maneuvre him In accordance with
military tactics, only when he felt the
spurs and concluded that it was necessary
for him to move forward he did not start
gracefully, but spread his hind feet. braced
himself for the effort, made a convulsive
jump and was of.
The guardsman managed very we'll with
his queer mount for the first few days.
Then, one morning, he was ordered into
the city on an errand. This just suited the
car horse The street cars were familiar
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
Semi-Annual Payment of Taxes

Semi.Annual Payment of Taxes
We hope some of our Populist sena-
tors or member will move for this
much-needed reform 1t will be a
great boon to the taxpayers. But
the bankers, who now have six
months profit off about two million
dollars of state funds, will, Of course,
fight any such movement. But that
should not deter our friends from
making the effort. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
Pointed and Sensible.

The Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Times says very peril
nently:
cleveland proposes a system of
finance of gold, for gold. and by gold.
He has cast aside his masquerade of
"bimetallism" and appears in the yell
low colors of the incorrigible goldbug,
bonds, and national banks. These
latter institutions are practically
without limit and endowed with an
issue without frontiers. That is the
practical effect. Both bill and mes
sage are the children of bank sugges-
tiOn-the acts of the banks through
Cleveland. August Belmont and
Henry Cannon, one representing the
ROthSchilds, the other the more
modern money of New York, did not
put in last week in Washington in
vain. Pass this bill and the country
and it's commerce are helpless at the
footstool of banks. Not once, but a
score OF times; not last week, but a
year and more ago, it was told and re-
told in these dispatches that the
wholesale purpose of Cleveland was to
bring finance to gold recommendation
and turn over the entire paper-money
issue of the country to the national
banks. Today Cleveland furnishes
the proof OF it all, in his message and
his bill. Pass the bill, issue the bonds,
found and extend the banks, and the
youngest baby in the land will never
live to see that day when he will es-
cape the slavery of the banks. Every
American will be a thrall to money-a
gold serf, bank slave-to the last
gasp of his life. His hopes, his home.
his fortune, his family, his whole
existence will be held in the hollow of
the banks hand. One might as we'll
provide for the banks baptism of in
fantS. Their instruction of youth
ana the burial service, changed to
consist wit the facts, should read:
The banks have given; the banks
have taken away; blessed be the name
of the banks"
While one reads Cleveland's mes.
sage of today get also his message
opening the extra session when he
asked for the death of silver. Observe
what he recOunted as evils and their
causes. Observe, too, the remedies he
pointed out and the results he prom
ised to flow from the repeal of the Sill
yer purchasing clause Of the Sherman
law. Compare what he said with
what he says, what he promised with
what has happened. It may aid one
in concluding on the goodness and
solvent worth of the Cleveland puid-
ing. 1t will help one determine
whether is Is wise to surrender the
ship to his course and compass at this
pinch. From first to last Cleveland
has blundered, and in no branch of az
fairs more hopelessly than finance.
He is wrong now. He promises to be
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06

An exchange notes the fact that it
costs an honest man $50 cold cash to
ride from New York to San Francisco,
while hog is carried for Sc, and a
congressman goes free. But to our
mind these honest men should be
thankful nevertheless that they are
neither hogs nor congressman
Springfield, (Mass.) Common Sense.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06

"Four miners in COur d. Alene
Idaho, who were sent to prison two
years ago, have been elected to the
legislature. The working people are
learning their strength and the way
to use it.-Ex,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-06
The Commercial Port Of Pekin.

For a place boasting close upon a million
Inhabitants, Tien Tsin Is not very large.
especially If allowance be made for the
granaries with which 1t abounds. 1t Is
the commercial port of Pekin, and in 1t
are stored vast quantities Of wheat, rice,