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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
he COR IT.
Captain Bennett Presented With {
Fine Greyhound Last Night.

Captain Bennett Presented with q
Fine Greyhound Last Night.
Captain Bennett has been want
ing another dog to add to his al
ready fine collection, and gave
preference to a greyhound over
any other kind. His friends heard
OF this, and il there is anything
Captain Bennett wants, all he has
to do is to say it, and his friends
will see that he gets it, no matter
at what cost.
He has been looking for a grey
hound for some time, but has been
unable to find the right kind. Last
night he called on his friend, Char
lie Campbell, for a little social
chat. The Captain was about to
enter Mr.. Campbelrs Office to take
a seat, when Mr.. Campbell Inter
ruPted, "Don't go in there, Captain;
l have a particular friend in
there"
80, beg your pardon, CHARLIE"
said Captain Bennett, turning
away.
Snow, Captain, / want to give
you an introduction tony FRIEND"
Mr.. Campbell said, opening the
office door, and showing beautiful
greyhound, with blue ribbon
around his neck. "This, Captain,
is the particular friend" said Mr..
Campbell, and In a neat speech,
made the presentation in behalf of
Captain Benefits friends. The
Captain was completely knocked
out, and when he recovered he
thanked his kind friends from the
bottom of his heart. He promised
to treat the animal like child,
and guaranteed to have him walk
ing a slack wire and jumping
houses within a week. He then
invited his friends over to Billy's,
next door, where everybody order
ed what they wanted.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
ARMY NEWS.

REPORTED SPECIALLY For THE LIGHT.
Captain Richer, chief signal
officer of this department., has been
ordered to Atlanta, Ga, to report
on the electrical display at the ex-
position there. From there he will
go to Washington for temporary
duty in the Office of the chief
signal officer. Lieutenant Dodge,
aidedecamp to General Bliss, has
been detailed temporarily as acting
chief signal officer.
The order directing Regimental
Quartermaster Sergeant Murray
to proceed to Kansas City as wit
ness in a civil suit has been re-
voked, the case having been post
poned.
Private Holly, mail clerk at post
headquarters, is confined to the
hospital suffering from fever and
chills.
The members Of the light bat
terry gave ball last Saturday
night at Schwartz's hall. which wss
largely attended, dancing being
continued until three a. m. The
music was excellent. Sergeant
Miller as floor manager and Pri-
Yates Kunz and Patterson as recep-
tion committee, were success.
Lieutenant Gurovits, Eleventh
infantry, tried for being under the
influence of liquor in the presence
of enlisted men, has been restored
to duty.
Private Shoto, company f, Eigh-
teenth infantry, tried for being alb
sent without leave Give previous
convictions having been consid-
ered) was sentenced to dishonora-
BILE discharge, with confinement at
hard labor for three months.
A farewell ball will be given
some day this week to the two de-
parting troops of cavalry.
Saddler Ballyntine, who was dis
charged Saturday as per expiration
of term of enlistment, re-enlisted
yesterday for his old troop H, Fifth
cavalry.
Post Quartermaster Sergeant
John Fiedeke has been placed up
on the retired list.
1t is expected that troop A
(Augur's) will leave for Fort Bliss
sometime this week and that troop
III (Schuyler's) will leave here next
Monday.
Troop d (Thomas) will be the
first to arrive of the new troops.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
NEWS OF THE COURTS.

THIRTY-sEvENTH DISTRICT COURT
Lizzie Anderson vs.. Frank An
derson, divorce; judgment for
plaintiff.
Ernest Rische VS.. City of San
Antonio; on trial.
The Edgewood Distilling Co.
VS.. Dan Lewis, promissory note /;
on trial.
FoRTY-FIFTH DISTRICT COURT.
Herman Schuwirth and Fl. w.
Browder were fined $25 each this
morning as defaulting jurors.
John and Elizabe Demmer vs.
Francis and Theodore Demmer, to
remove cloud from title; Ed. Hal
tom appointed guardian ad Item
for Theodore Demmer, minor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
WORK, WHERE DONE.

Finished repairing and rolling
down Elmira street from San Pedro
avenue to North Flores street.
Finished rolling Augusta street
from Convent bridge to Richmond
avenue.
Finished matchmaking Crockett
street from Navarro street to
bridge.
Built crosswalk across Rodriguez
street on the west side Of Main
avenue.
Tore up cid culvert across Main
ave. at intersection of Rodriguez
street and cut out depression in
street to drain off storm water.
Delivered % cords of stove wood
to city hospital from city wood
yard.
Took out old culvert on south
Alamo street, at intersection of
south Presa street and cut out
depression in street to carry of
storm water.
Cleaned cutters on Crockett
street and filled up holes with
gravel from Navarro street to st.
Mary's street.
Delivered six cords of stove wood
to school house on Lavaca street
from city wood yard.
Filled up cutters on st. Mary's
street with gravel from Commerce
street to Crockett street.
Finished cleaning mud off Mar
shall street from San Pedro ave-
nue. to North Flores street.
Finished repairing Macon street
and rolled same from San Pedro
avenue to North Flores street.
Filled up water hole on South
street at intersection of Matagorda
street with 80 loads of gravel.
Delivered . cords of wood and
9-cord of kindling to South Flores
street school from city wood yard.
Repaired and rolled Marshall
street from San Pedro avenue to
North Flores street.
Raised mesquite block crosswalk
on San Pedro avenue, at intersec-
ton of Marshall street.
Od"eu IL Gurus vi Woou III Cloy
wood yard for school houses.
Plowed down hills on Lakeview
avenue, west Of the creek, and
filled up washout with the dirt.
Cleaned out cutters on Rich
mond avenue from Augusta street
to Main avenue. Rolled down Rich
mond avenue from Augusta street
to Main avenue. City prisoners
worked one and one-half days
wood in city wood yard.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
Shepherd { Sauer,
3O6 w. Commercials
WON IN A WALK.
San Antonio Wins Yesterdays Cock
ing Main.

San Antonio Wins Yesterdays Cock
ing Main.
One OF the most interesting and
exciting cooking mains ever held
in this city took place at Bob
Marks pit yesterday. The main
was between San Antonio and
Luling, and was won by San An
tonic. There were five fights, Of
which San Antonio won three. The
results are as follows:
First Fight-San Antonio, dark
red, 4:0S, va. Luling, blue, 4:0S;
won by San Antonio in eight pit
tings.
. Second Fight-San Antonio, dark
blue, 4 is, vs. Luling, 4:l5; won by
San Antonio in three pittings.
Third Fight-Luling, red, sos,
VS.. San Antonio, gray, 500; won
by Luling in three pittings.
Fourth Fight-San Antonio,
5:l2, VS.. Luling, SILL; won by San
Antonio in four pittings.
Luling won the last fight in four
pittings.
NOTES OF THE FIGHT.
Thee San Antonio birds were
handled by John Wilkens, Tom
Dunbar. Dukes and H. Lewis
handled the Luling birds.
1t is estimated that from $50 to
$3.50 changed hands on each fight.
There were about 500 people pres
emit.
A number of interesting fights
took place at the Monterey saloon
pit, which were also largely at
tended.
John Grimsinger's Jap lost about
$500 for the local sports yesterday
by being beaten by Henry Lewis
bird, Of Lockhart. The sports had
great faith in the Jap since he Sc
cleverly defeated T. P. Robertson's
bird, of Austin, last fall.
Bob Marx says that the next
main, which will take place Deem
Der 81 and %, between Gonzales
and Austin, will eclipse yester
days event. There will be at least
a hundred birds here, and they are
coming from Dallas, Houston and
other places.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
Saver Report.

There were 1850 feet OF S.inch,
90 feet of 15-inch, 275 feet Of Is.
inch pipe sewers laid last week,
and 60 feet OF 4S inch double brick
sewers were put in. One manhole
was put in. Two flush tanks, one
on Avenue ID and one on Oak
street, ward 5, were placed. There
were 40 branches laid. Average
daily force, 156 men 80 teams and
four inspectors. w. G. Peters and
A. Stewart were new inspectors put
on last week. To date 20 miles OF
the sewer system have been laid.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
THE MODERN MOTHER

Has found that her little ones are
improved more by the pleasant
laxative, Syrup Of Figs, when in
need of the laxative effect Of a gen.
tie remedy than by any other, and
that it is more acceptable to them.
Children enjoy it and it benefits
them. The true remedy, Syrup of
Figs, is manufactured by the Cal
ifornia Fig Syrup Co. only.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
New French Officers.

The French Benevolent society
elected new officers at their
monthly meeting held yesterday,
as follows:
President, j. Loustaunau; vice.
president, P. Magadieu; secretary,
r. Gentle; assistant secretary, j.
Pascalin; treasurer, A. Castanola ;
finance committee, ]. Quinn, P.
Bergeron, j. Flory; sick commit
tee, J. Pelleton, T. Meyer, d. Pujo,
G. Devits; doctor, J. Braunnagel,
NJ, ID.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
Abused His Wife.

Officer Dawson yesterday after.
noon arrested John Wells, good
looking Mexican, living on West
Houston street, opposite the gas
factory. Wells came home drunk
and kicked his wife around on the
floor, until she was black and blue.
They have several children.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
NEW! NEW TRIMMED.

Hats of this season, at prices from
today on that will set a rapid gait
to our great Christmas sales.
2t JOsKE BROS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09

OUR HOLIDAY NECKwEAR
for originality. beauty and low
price beats any line ever shown in
San Antonio. You cannot imagine
a prettier line than our 500 neck
wear. 1919 2t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
MAVERICK.
YOU WILL WONDER

at the beauty, you will marvel at
the price Of our 50s neckwear, and
right through to the very elaborate
kinds in separate box for Christ
mas. l292t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
NO. 2233,-ESTATE OF VI
IRWIN DECEASED.

Whereas letters of administration upon
the estate OF Charles r. Irving, deceased,
were granted to the undersigned by the
county court, of Bexar county Texas, on
the 10Th day OF Nov. A. ID ;, 1895. All per-
sons holding claims against said estate
are requested to present the same with
in the time, prescribed by law.
G. L. BATES, Administrator,
Rooms and French building, San An
tonic, Texas. l294w
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

The following arrivals were reg
istered at the various hotels this
morning.
MAHNCKE.
Carey Shaw, Columbus; s. M.
Sims, G. Hartshorn and wife, B. HI.
Durham, Mrs. w. A. Rankin,
Onarga, Ill.,; w. 81. Prass, Her
mann, Mo-; o. Warden, Blue
Ridge, Tex; Joseph Franklin and
wife, Miss Cecilia Franklin, Master
Julius Franklin, Galveston; J..
Courand and family, Mrs. T. M.
Courand, Castroville.
MENGER.
Bob Warren and wife. q. w.
Young, u. HI. Scott, Galveston; l..
A. Graham, Chas. A. Gardner and
wife, d. V. Arthur, New York; G.
ID. Mia, Kansas City; Chester
Brown, Lake Charles, La, j. E.
Gagne, New Orleans; Ralph Izaad
and family, Monterey, Mex. f; John
Il. Boone, Harry l.. Monroe, Dali
las; R. w. East Hick, Chicago; j.
H. Snow, Mexican Central Rail-
way.
MAVERICK.
J. A. Bell, Rancho; J. M. Walker,
w. FL. Muenster, Luling; Miss
Perry, Miss Whitehouse, New
York; Roy w. Scott, Philadelphia;
Alfred c.. Sullock, Houston; Miss
Nellie Altar, Miss Flossie Kingdom,
Cuero.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09

Perfection of art, the Oriental
Oil Heater. Gus. A. BONNET, 2l7
West Commerce street. IL I'll
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09

Bill Coffey caught a big wild
cat near Mackey's ranch yesterday.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09

NOTHING EVER CARRIED OVER
In millinery. That's why we al
ready commenced selling all ladies'
trimmed hats greatly under regu-
lar prices. GU JosKE BROS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
CALIFORNIA
COFFEE HOUSE AND RESTAURANT
235 w. Commerce St.

Not having sufficient room for my
many patrons, have added ladies and
family dining parlor which has but re-
Gently been built and newly furnished.
Ladies while out shopping will find
pleasant place to take their lunch.
Business lunch from 1890 a. m. to ago
p. m, IS cents.
My patrons are my best advertisers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
STREET WORK.

The following is the street COM
missioners' report for last week:
Ia teams worked IL DAYS. S213 90
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
"f It's a GOOD Shoe We Haze H."


About our Shoe selling. We
do a straight business, give you
the best value to be had.
We have one price only, ever.
thing is marked in plain figures.
A child buys as cheaply as the
parent.
Well fit you to a nice pair of
Fine Kid Lace Shoes for $3.50.
They'll fit you better than you
ever were fitted and we war
rant them to wear. Long grace
full opera toes with natty tips;
plenty of sizes and widths.
Seventy Cents, down they
go. Prince Alberts in the bas-
ket. s. values, but quantity
makes the price. ?, az, 3 sizes,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-09
NEW TRIMMED HATS TO GO.

All this seasons best styles will
be sold greatly below their original
prices. (2D JosKE BROS.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-07
THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE.

Our ideas of knowledge are so assocIat-
ed and identified with books and schools
end colleges and. titles and nard names
and mysterious words and owlish men.
that look over their eyebrows and all
that sort of thing, that we quite forget
what 1t is and the purpose OF 1t. 1t is an
old weakness OF mankind TO forget re-
mote causes and ultimate ends, while
their hearts and heads are full OF the
things that occupy their senses. The
present eye praises the present object.
The fisherman worships the net and the
drag; and the silversmiths raise the cry:
Great is Diana of the Ephesians"
All men talk up their trades, and mag
Nifty their calling: And why should not
bookish men? Why should 1t not be a
big thing to be literary and learned?
Nevertheless the old story Ia true; the
kings are crazy, and the people suffer.
If the blind lead the blind. both fall into
a pit. The world reverberates with the
devils tattoos; and who can hear his
ears?'
Our ancestors had such a great rcver-
ence for books and learning that. to per-
petuate the generation of the learned.
they allowed certain privileges to the
clergy. and many rascal was left un-
hung and kept out OF prison merely be-
cause Of his knowledge We have out
grown that; but still are badly hood
winked In the matter OF books. and de-
ceive and are deceived nightly in that
connection. The general world allows
much awe and mysterious importance to
authors and literary people; and are a
good deal afraid OF them until they are
subjected to the fires OF common sense
and actual practice; when they only
show residum OF dust and ashes like
the rest OF us.
We are very practical age; and the
human race is not six thousand years old
for nothing. We are learning a good
many things from the mistakes of our
progenitors ana from the old and dear
school Of experience. And really books
and authors and distinguished writer's
are 80 multiplying that 1t is coming TO
be . distinction to be ignorant And It
10 quite growing into a Recommendation
to be "a natural" Educational processes
and methods are reaching that degree Of
efficiency and perfection that, not only
can an idiot be made into something. but
yeritabls dolt can be run through the
mechine, end turned out professor. =
Pm D.. very ':Pacha Of many tails"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-07
SUNDAY. JULY 7. 1895.
MEETINGS AND EVENTS MONDAY.
Fraternal Lodge. Masons, Masonic TEN

Fraterual Lodge Masons, Masonic Tenn
pie.
Pickett Camp, G. ". Central Hall.
old Dominion Lodge, x. OF p, Schiller
Hall.
Syracuse Lodge. X. OF r.. odd-Fellows'
Hall
jefferson Lodge. /. o. O. r.. Odd-Fellows'
Hall
Richmond Lodge. I. o. o. f., Belvidere
Hall.
Anawan Tribe. !. o. II. NJ, Laube's Hall.
Indianola Tribe. !. o. r. NJ. Toney's Hall.
Grey Eagle Tribe, i. .. X. NJ, Jr. o. u.
A. M. Hall.
r. Il. Lee Council, Jr. o. U. A. NJ, .Jr.
o. u. A. NJ. Hall.
Patrick Henry Council, Jr. o. u. A. NJ.
Powhatan Hall.
West-End w. C.. T. u, Y. NJ. G. A. Par
lors
Grove Council. Jr. o. U. A. NJ, Good
Templars' Hall.
Rescue Lodge. |. o. G. T., Gatewood's
Hall.
Charity Lodge. l. o. G.. IT, Springfield
Hall.
Myrtle Temple, I. o. G. T., Pine-Street
Baptist church.
McGill Catholic Union. Cathedral Hall.
Carpenters Union, Concordia Hall.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
1890 A. NJ. Toney's Hall.
Woman's Christian Association, Associa-
ton Rooms.
Company H. First Regiment, Armory.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-07

Of Virginia. converting our elections in
those places into a farce. But such vir-
gInians equally think that the Democratic
party OF the State is equal to dealing
with the case, and that appeals for re-
formation should be made to 1t, and not to
those who have formed an alliance with
Republicans In disguise. That Democrats
of Virginia are not equal to the task OF
reforming their election methods and Sc
curing honesty In them is a proposition
which The Times repudiates. The Demo-
cratic party Of Virginia contains the great
body of Vireinia's white citizens. They
those Virginians who have made her
name synonymous with the home of free.
brave. honorable. truthful men. They are
a religious people. a self-respecting people,
a simple and a guileless people. They
abhor trickery and fraud in elections as
much as in anything else. INSCRIPTIONS
and knavish politicians have weaved a
web around them that for a time present
ed them to the world as approving OF
fraudulent elections; but they do not ap-
prove OF them. They abhor the whole
business. and when circumstances be-
come such as to allow them to declare
their willie in the premises they viii.
speak their minds in thunder tones.
Virginia is dishonored by the present
state of the case, but virgnians feel that
dishonor. and they are determined in
due time and in their own way TO eface
the stain. The Democratic party Of Vir-
ginia is equal to doing this, and 1t will do
1t in its own good time.
Meanwhile the cause Is only retarded by
such meddlings with 1t as will come
will be few men there who have not been
Gel nccted in one way or another with
movements which could only have re-
suited. if successful. in turning this State
over 10 a revolutionary rule Of the Ma
hone sort. A be dy composed OF such men
Is not likely to make a strong appeal TO
the consideration of the conservative
people of Virginia. and least OF all Is 1t
likely to do SO wher appealing to the
people OF Virginia to reform their cleo
ton methods In an address drawn by
William Malone, who first debauched
those methods. and led a part of the
people astray with his tissue ballots.
The movement for honest elections. con-
Quoted by earnest virginians In an earn
est appeal to their brother virginians.
was making most Favorable progress
until the shadow Of this convention LOOM
ed up on the horizon. We fear now that
1t will do the cause more harm than all
the Democratic thimble-riggers and trick
sters combined would have been able TO
do Ii.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-07
IF THE POPULIsT WOULD WORK
MORE AND TALK LESS.

The State of Kansas may be regard
ed as the birthplace OF the Populist
party. To her we owe that most mys-
terious OF all the dispensations of Provi-
dence PETER, and thence halls the pic
turesdue statesman. John j. ingalls,,
whom the people of Norfolk mistook for
Sarah Bernhardt Nevertheless there Is
good ground for believing that IL the
people of Kansas would work more and
talk and vote less her farmers would find
a return from their lands that they
yainly hope for from fifty-cent silver dol
lars and foods OF irredeemable fiat paper
money.
Ex-Governor Osborn, of Kansas. says he
has made money off his 6oo-acre farm,
and a neighbor, who owns 800 acres OF
the Kaw river bottom lands, has for
years cleared 81 an acre. or ~ per cent.
on a valuation OF SO an acre for land
which he probably got at nominal,
figure from a railroad company or the
government.
II our Virginia Populists would think
a little more closely upon the subject
than they do we suspect that they, too,
would find much more in their situation
TO console them than they now find. A
Virginia farmer has 800 acres Of land.
which is worth we win say, SIS an acre,
or $500 In all. He lives on that farm,
gets home for himself and his family,
Ia lie a.
from 1t 10 clcthe himself and his family,
and has horses TO ride and drive about
the country at his pleasure. He hears
very little Italian opera, it Is true, and
Vanderbilt, but If he will only work
and get out of his land what it is ready
to yield him, he can have all that we
have mentioned. That is not very hard
lot when compared with the far harder
lot of hundreds of millions of other
people in this world, and he gets II all
from capital of $500. sin per cent
interest on that sum is only $3.50 per an
mum. Could he In any other way support
his family In anything like the same
comfort? 1t seems 10 us that II that
Virginia farmer were Populist and were
complaining OF his lot, the substance of
his complaint would re that his farm
was not worth $500. instead OF $500.
But there is no possible way for it to be-
come worth this greater sum, ex-
cept by his toiling day in and day out to
improve 1t. Neither free silver. nor fiat
paper money. nor any order. command,
or law issuing out of government can
add the other s67,5OO to 1t. Labor may
do his. but labor alone can do 1t.
We do not say that Virginia farmers
can increase the value Of farms now
worth $500 up to $4,000 even by the
hardest and most persistent toll. But
we do say that the only additions they
can ever make to their value will come
from toll and from toll only. Free silver
and fiat money will never do 1t.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-07
1T is OMNIBUS OF EVIL.

Our Washington correspondent stated In
his letter to The Times yesterday that
General Malone said to him day or so
back that 1t was his intention to leave
Washington for Petersburg the latter part
OF July. TO attend the meeting OF the con-
vention which will. be held there on Au-
gust 1st to consider methods that will
secure honest ard fair elections In vir-
ginia. Malone added that this conven-
ton would repretsnt an uprising of all
classes in the state-.Democrats, Repub-
leans. Third party. and all other polit-
ical orders--all bent ON securing fair
elections.
This latter statement may be true. but
1t VIII not tend In the smallest degree
TO reconcile the great body Of the people
OF Virginia TO the convention itself. The
fact will remain that It viii BE- composed
in the main Of the discontinued elements
that are/aiways seeking to overthrow the
supremacy Of the Democratic party. ana
that It win be inspired and engineered
BIZ General Malone. Those two facts end
all possibility Of any good being effected
by 1t.
There II no honest. candid virginian
who does not deplore the condition Of
things that has grown up In many parts