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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19
Notice of Meeting,

The Rev. Mrs. Webb will give an ad-
dress on Divine Human Rights" this
evening at st. Paul's NJ. E. church, be.
ginning at p. m. Following it trial
ballot will be held, DR.. Aston superintend E
ing the counting and conduct Of the same.
The eight gentlemens' names who are to
be used on the trial ballots, will be those
who ran at large In the late city eIectl0n
for aldermen. The public are cordially
invited to attend and take part In casting
and witnessing the counting of this trial
ballot, that will prove the proportional
preferential vote sis the only effective
that will make this land the home Of the
brave and the free"
AUvERGNE l.. ASTOR, Nj. ID.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19

"A couple Of cases Of small pox
have been reported at Taylor, Tex.
The sufferers have been isolated
and the drug stores have had a run
OF vaccine points. The town will
have big sore arm for a week or
two
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19
LIGHT FLASHES.

Mrs. Beatrice Grant, Of Buffalo
\. v, who came to San Antonio
several weeks ago, suffering from
consumption, died yesterday in
her room in the Bancroft house on
st. Mary's street. Her husband is
superintendent Of the Pullman
Palace Car company at Buffalo.
Mrs. Eliza Stevens, OF San
Antonio, widow OF Edward A, ha s
been granted Mexican war
widows pension.
City Marshal Druse, as far as
practicable, will organize his po-
lice force with the largest and
most intelligent men he can pro-
cure.
The county commissioners yes
terday appointed II. j. Berry and
James Laird, engineers on the
steam road rollers.
Wanted Good second hand
buggy. Address pOstotfice box ll2l.
2l9 2t>
Mayor Elmendorf acted as re-
corder this morning and ground
out a big grist from heavy
docket, composed mostly Of tramp
cases.
Wanted - White woman for
chambermaid at Alamo Flats. APP
ply at once. , 10 2t*
The Ladies' Dancing club Oc-
cupied the new Turner hall last
night.
Tickets for the Remenyi con-
cert have been received by the
LIGHT.
The admission to the Colonial
ball for the benefit of the Public
Library has been fixed by the Ia
dies at 80 cents.
Master Henry Hart, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Hart, is suf-
iering with influenza, at his home
on Augusta street.
The Liquor Dealers ball has
been dated for Feb. %, Washing.
tons birthday anniversary.
Beethoven Maenerchor will
have regular rehearsal tonight.
Rev. d. l.. Moody's hotel bill in
this city was $50. OF this amount
S25 were gathered together by the
ministers with a subscription list.
His expenses for a representative
we're 5000 and this, with the re-
mainder OF the hotel bill, was sub
scribed by the citizens, merchants
and others of the city.
Col. Geo. w. Breckenridge has
returned from Chicago and New
York.
"A couple Of cases of small pox
have been reported at Taylor, Tex.
The sufferers have been isolated
and the drug stores have had run
OF vaccine points. The town will
have big sore arm for a week or
twn
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19
Turner Mask Ball.

The annual ball Of the San Antonio
Turn Verein last Saturday night was one
OF the social successes Of the season and
was attended by upward Of 300 persons.
one half Of whom were attired in fanciful
carnival costume.
A feature Of the evening was the three
groups, Spanish girls, lantern parade by
young ladies, and the Spanish bull tight
ers, by the amusement committee. The
dan 'e ended at o'clock Sunday morning
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19

The new City Council is certainly an
able body, and much will be expected of
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19
Real Estate.

Herman SchuItze, Jr., to Caroline
Schultze. lot2, block &c, on San Fernan-
do street; SlO and love and aft ection.
Herman Schultze, Jr., to Glen Ray
mond, block II, containing 16 lots, on
Government Heights addition, about two
miles northwest of Alamo plaza; 1000.
Walter Scott, by sheriff, under order OF
sale, tn Mrs. Amalia Elmendorf, lot Sand
east half Of lot 4, block -, on Probandt
street. 81 O25
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19
GRAND ANNUAL BALL

OF the San Antonio Retail Liquor
Dealers association a Mission Gar
den, Friday, Feb. %. Tickets to be
had at all leading saloons. 2l9 At
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19
500 PAIR OF BOYS SCHOOL SHOE
Big Branch Store Cor Commerce and East SIS y Mail Orders Filled with Great Care
/: WOLFSON.
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

The pc )ple Of this city have just passed
through an exciting city election, one
that has left some scars to heal. and en-
gendered personal feelings and resent
ments that may not wear away for some
time to come, but on the whole, the good
citizenship that controls the deStines OF
our community, has trium phed above the
feeling incident to such a contest and re-
solved TO throw behind them all resent
ments and work for the general good.
Whether we are to continue to run our
local elections upon the same basis here
after, remains TO be seen. mbinatlonS
of office holders have certainly fallen into
disrepute with the people: The appar-
emily all powerful ''B Six" have gone to
the wall and taken down with them a
number of innocent victims.
The success of the Elme ndorf ticket is
due to the aroused interest o. our best
citizenship, and should be accepted as a
verdict, fairly rendered. in favor OF the
present administration.
The new administration, for such it Is,
has task before them, the unfinished
task undertaken by the late Mayor Pas
chal and his council, to bring our city to
a sound financial basis. In this particu
lar they should have the aid OF every
good citizen, to the end that with sound
credit, ability to meet obligations, and
the promotion of needed public work, our
city will start upon new era OF pros
perity.
The outlook ais q cheerful one, the
building of the sewers will employ a
larger force OF laboring men, and we may
expect revival of real estate values. and
the investment of capital in our city and
section
The new City Council is certainly an
bile body. and much will be expected of
them
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19

Mariners Condition Critical.
Rafael r. Martinez was report
ed in a critical condition this after
noon, and fears for the worse are
entertained.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-19
PERSONAL MENTION.

7. B. Miller and wife, Of Hondo
City, and Miss Cora Keene, Of San
Marcos, are at the Mahncke.
John Drake, Of Cuero, is in the
city, and quartered at the Mahncke.
-LOst-A dark blue stud ear
ring, gold setting. Reward for re-
turn Of same to this office. 2 - =
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20
A Rebel Song.
New Orleans Times-Democrat.

New Orleans TimeS-Democfat.
True merit in song is a passport
which no sentry will question, says
writer in the Philadelphia Times, and
long before peace had been declared
James r. Randalrs Maryland, My Ma
ryland," that fiery bit of rhymed elo-
quence, had crossed the enemys lines,
and exacted its need of praise from the
literary circles at the north. oliver
Wendell Holmes says of it,, 1T was the
best poem produced on either side during
the war" And the poet himself Wr1tes
soon after its appearance abundant ev-
idence was borne to me that whatever the
fate of the confederacy might be, my
song would survive it, 1t crossed the
ocean, and when it came out in England
Mr. Randall received an autograph letter
from a member of Lord Byron's family,
filled with expressions of admiration of
it, and containing request for manu-
script copy, and an invitation to the au-
thor to visit his correspondent in London.
About this time Mr.. John r. Thompson,
for so many years connected with the
Southern Literary Messenger, happened
to go abroad, and upon his return he said
to Mr.. Randall: II envy you above all
men," "Why?" asked the poet BE
cause" said Mr.. Thompson, when 1 was
in London l met in drawing room one
of the most beautiful and charming of
women, who asked if l would not like to
hear a song of my southern country;
and upon replying in the affirmative went
to the piano and sang Maryland, My
Maryland After she had finished she
turned to me and said: When you see
the friend who wrote that tell him that
you heard it sung by Russian girl who
lives at Archangel north of Siberia, and
learned to sing it here >"
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20

heat, but especially for its lack of any
general rain fall during the whole sea-
son. The early drought in May and June
cut short the grass crop throughout the
whole region indicated, and in few To-
calities the succeeding crops suffered
much for want OF rain.
But local rains sometimes extending
over only a score of square miles were
quite frequent and as they shifted their
area and quite frequently, most summer
crops after wheat harvest were fairly
well ripened. The corn, except In small
areas, promises a good YIELD. The whole
rain fall during the season has been far
below normal and hence, the ground has
not once been thoroughly soaked.
As result ofsthis irregular and limited
distribution of rain, many of the never
failing springs have gone dry, and in
many places the foreststrees show signs
of dying for want of rain. Weather
prophets and meteorologists have been
finding causes for these strange freaks in
the weather in the conformations or the
planets nearest our earth, or in the con-
tinual and continued destruction of our
forest trees, but thus far, we think they
have failed to account for the Irregular
ties in the rain department. our rains
have not only been decidedly local Dut
they have sometimes been very violent.
1t has been remarked in some places that
there has been a, marked absence of
thunder and lightning. whilst at other
places not far distant, the electricity OF
the clouds has been very destructive.
Can 1t be that our immense net work or
wires reaching hundreds of miles east
and west with numerous crossing from
north to south in this specified region.
has something to do with the want of
evenly distributed rains and with the
violence of the local storms, as well as
with the entire absence of electrical de-
monstrations at others?
The many forms of applied electricity
within the last few years have already
designated this as the age of electricity,
and no one yet knows what is the force
which he is using and which is apparent
ly so obedient to his command. He does
know that if he disturbed 1t at one end or
the line 1000 miles in length the other end
feels it, or responds to the touch as read
lily as do the most sensitive muscle the
animal to an excited nerve.
Is electricity, then the nerve force OF
the world or the universe, and are we in
our use of it, only trifling with it as n
babe in its responses to its first Sensa-
ton? May not our showers be so under
the control of electricity that we in our
ignorance are only interfering with its
regular and appointed work in furnishing
regular rains in their seasons?
We may yet find when We have proper
ly understood this mysterious force, that
we can send it on a journey to. the great
gulf to bring the refreshing rains in their
season with the same certainty that we
now send 1t to the other side of the globe
to carry almost instantaneously the mes
sage and Photographic picture OF what
is happening here.
We may be only beginning to learn our
lessons by the irregularities our slight
distributions are producing. There are
many things not dreamed of in our phil
osophy.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20
Was Poorly Off After the War, but Is Now
ir,C

Was Poorly Off After the War, but Is Now
in Glover.
st. James college, near Hagerstown,
Md, was, before the war, much like Rug
by, as Rugby appears in Tom Brown"
It's chef popularity lay in the fact that
only gentlemen's sons matriculated there.
In 1858 and 1859 l think almost every
other boy was a bishops son. We had
bishops sons from every southern state,
l am sure, and some from the north. AS
a rule they were the widest boys in col
lege, which, of course, largely added to
their popularity. One of the biggest
scapegraces was Bill Pork, son of the
Fighting Bishop of Louisiana" General
LeonidaS Polk. Bill did everything but
study He was the leader in all the devil
ment, and none of us believed he would
amount to shucks. We left college in
1859 Bill went home, and when the war
broke out joined his fathers staff and
eft nobly." After the war he married
and settled in north Alabama as a poor,
one-horse farmer. About the age of 80 he
received letter from a noted New York
physician, Dr. Metcalfe, a devoted friend
of General Polk, advising him to come
there and study medicine. AS he was
starving himself and his wife to death
trying to farm, he accepted the doctors
invitation and was soon in his Office at
work. In few years DR.. Metcalfe's eyes
failed. and he gave up his night practice
to Bill. When he died Bill fell into his
day practice also, and today DR.. William
NJ Polk is making $400 900 a year. His
patients are in Fifth avenue, on the brow
of Murray Hill.-New York Press.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20
KATIE AND THE OLD GUITAR.

The sweetest strain that ever
My raptured ears have heard
l know that memory never
Can lose a single word
Was on balmy evening
That crowned a summer day,
When Katie tuned the old guitar
And sang my heart away.
The happy starlight beaming
Upon her lily throat.
Set wistful fancy dreaming
With every haunting note.
1t was no idle ballad
No senseless modern lay:
With Bonnie Annie Laurie" 10,
She sang my heart away.
And when the song was over
And Katie breathed a sigh,
She, too. could boast lover
Who would lay him down and die.
Twas then | told my secret
And still / bless the day
When Katie tuned the old guitar
And sang my heart away.
Samuel Minturn Peck.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20
FAMOUS coNFEDERATE's SON.

Oak Grove, Talladega, Ala.
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20
your child

You note the difference in
children. Some have nearly
every ailment, even with
the best of care. Others far
more exposed pass through
unframed. Weak children
will have continuous colds
in winter, poor digestion in
summer. They are with
out power to resist disease,
they have no reserve
strength. SCOTS Emulsion
of cod liver oil, with hypo-
phosphites, is cod-livcr oil
partly digested and adapted
to the weaker digestions of
children.
scorr q Bowss, Chemists, New York. soc. and sl.oo
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20
Don't miss the bargains in
ladies' small size shoes at
The Smith Shoe Co.'s.
Not 10 Blame.
l0-lS-tf

Washington Star.
Hear the wild waves beating on the
shore?" said the hotel clerk who has
spasms of poetry.
Yes. replied the landlord, who was
looking over his profit-and-loss account;
1.-The poor things amt so much to blame;
not after the example some of those sum-
mer guests have set EN-"
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20
Why So Dry ?
Farm News

Farm News.
The summer of 1895 has been most re-
markable, in the middle states east of
the Mississippi. not only for its excessive
Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-20

Young gentlemen having ambition to
play orchestral or band instruments of
any kind should consult Professor Weber
at the Birmingham College of Music.
Splendid opportunity.
6-23-tf
The morning call., 1895-01-19
Jones Of Virginia Is in
Rebellion Yet.
HOT WORDS IN THE HOUSE
Growing Out Of Debate on Private
Pensions.
SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN IN A RAGE.
Declare That They Bore Arms Thirty
Years Ago for Sweet Freedom
and the Right.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-There was a row
at the night session of the House, which
grew out of the events that occurred last
week. Feeling ran high and bitter words
were spoken. 1t started after the failure
of an effort to increase the pension of the
widow of General Abner Doubleday and to
pension another widow who performed
services as a voluntary nurse during the
Rebellion. Both bills were blocked by the
obstruction of Jones CD of Virginia.
Cooper CD of Indiana turned on Jones
savagely, and with much temper he
charged him with lack of chivalry in as
saulting the fair sex.
Jones absolutely denied that there was
any foundation for the statement that he
was fighting women. "All l am fighting
against, he said, sis the granting of a
large pension to the rich, powerful and in
huential."
81 question the motive of the gentleman
from Virginia" retorted Cooper holly. ~
believe he is actuated by the sentiment
expressed by him last Friday night, when
he said he was proud of the cause he had
fought for in the trenches. Although be
has taken an oath to support the flag that
floats above your head, Mr.. Speaker point
ing to the American flag above the Speak
er's desk], he now displays toward it the
same spirit of opposition he did when he
struck at that flag thirty years ago. I
have right to say it because he has him.
self said it,
Simpson (Pop.) of Kansas, Cox CD OF
Tennessee and Moses Cd of Georgia were
drawn into the controversy. Feeling ran
high and it looked for several minutes as
if personal encounter might occur.
Simpson continued to taunt Mr.. Jones, de-
claring he was not only surprised but
ashamed that man should come from
the South and say he still believed in the
lost cause.
Talbot of South Carolina at last came to
Jones' rescue. He was white with rage,
and while deprecating continual appeal to
sectional passions, asserted that such ap-
peals usually came from men who were in
vincible in time of war and invincible in
time of peace.
Gas to the lost cause" he shouted, sit is
the everlasting cause and can never be
lost, because it is the cause of liberty"
Jones got the floor just before the time
for adjournment was reached, and branded
Cooper's language toward himself as IN
worthy of gentleman.
81 want to say" he added, ''that when
the question was asked me last week 1 an
swered that was proud of the lost cause
to say I believed that my cause was not
right was a SANDER. 1 always said and
maintained everywhere, as 1 do now, that
l know that cause was right"
At this point the hour of 1890 came and
the House stood adjourned under the rule.
Had the debate been prolonged amid the
excitement and feeling that had been en-
gendered it might have developed into per-
sonal eombats.
The morning call., 1895-01-19
DEBS TO GET Ell.
At Least That Is the IatimGtio1s of c
IfsfIIsr.

At Least That Is the IntimGtio,s of Chief
Justice Fstller.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-In the habeas
corpus proceedings in the case of Eugene
V. Debs and others concerned in the Chi
cago strike, the Government, acting
through Assistant Attorney Whitney, and
Attorney Darrow, acting for Debs and
associates, to-day presented stipulation
to the United States Supreme Court agree
ing to postpone arguments in the case
until the 18th of March and agreeing,
meantime, that the prisoners be admitted
to bail in $1,000.
Chief Justice Fuller stated in behalf of
the court that the matter was of such i'm
portance that it would be necessary for the
court to have an opportunity for consulta-
ton before acting upon the stipulation
with regard to bail. disagreement, there
fore, was taken under advisement. The
stipulation is:
Flrst-That the rule to show cause shall be
returnable On the 25th of March, 1895.
second-That pending the hearing and de-
termination OF this proceeding the petitioners
shall be released in the sum of $4,000 each.
Mr.. Barre informed the Associated Press
that Chief Justice Fuller informed him
privately that the order for admission to
bail would be signed.
The morning call., 1895-01-19
VICTIMS OF THE BUTTE HORROR
Thirty Bodies Inferred fifth Civic and
Military H0norS.

Thirty Bodies Inferred fifth Civic and
Military HOnorS.
SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. ia special to
the Tribune from Butte, Mont, says:
Never in the history of Montana has there
been sadder spectacle than to-day, when
the bodies of thirty victims of the terrible
disaster of Tuesday last were consigned to
their last resting place.
All business was suspended for the day.
The military, with muffled drums, civic
societies and all the fire departments of
the State marched in the procession. All
buildings were draped in mourning. Ten
thousand people followed the dead to the
cemetery and thousands lined the streets.
Nine hearses contained the bodies of the
dead firemen. One hearse contained the bits
and shreds of humanity over which wept
the widow and orphans of brave Fire Mar
shall Cameron. Behind the dead fremen
rode James Flannery, sole survivor of the
crew. Eight unclaimed bodies were buried
by the relief committee. Five of the
wounded at the hospitals are sinking and
cannot recover. Several parts of bodies
were found to-day half mile from the
scene of the explosion.
The morning call., 1895-01-19
OVER ENGLAND'S SHOULDER
Germany Takes Another Slap at the
Commerce Of America.
Hamburg Authorities Forbid the ImpOrta
ton Of Cattle and Swine From
Great Britain.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The State Depart
ment has been informed that the Ham
burg authorities have forbidden the impor-
tation of cattle and swine from England
and Ireland. Inasmuch as large proper
ton of American cattle entering Germany
go through England, this is another severe
blow at our cattle trade with Continental
Europe.
The official notice of this last action of
Germany came to the State Department in
the following report from w. Henry Rob-
ertson, United States Consul at Hamberg,
dated December % last:
81 have the honor to inform you that by
a decree of the Hamburg Senate, passed
yesterday and published to-day, the entry
into this port of all Illuminating animals
and swine from Great Britain and Ireland
has been for the present prohibited. The
ground given in the decree is the outbreak
of the mouth and foot disease in different
places in England.
"Those animals will still be admitted
which shall be proven to have left Great
Britain or Ireland up to and including the
Goth instant, but such animals are to be
slaughtered Immediately after their arri-
Val. 1uS reg ulaI pciIaItieS oI me anu COLI
fiscation will follow any violation of the
prohibition"
It will be noted that the action in this
case was that of the Hamburg Senate and
not that of the Imperial Government of
Germany, but the same course has been
adopted at each of the other great German
seaports, SO that practically it amounts to
national legislation. 1t is not possible at
present to calculate the exact effect ON our
trade of the last decree. A considerable
portion of the cattle and hogs shipped from
the United States to Liverpool, after pass
ing into the possession of English buyers,
is detained for a time in the stockyards,
and finally sold and shipped to Germany.
The German Government has been aware
OF this, and recently sent commissioner
to England. 1t is alleged this action was
taken ON the pretense of examining the
English cattle, but really to lay the foun-
dation for the present decree, which it is
asserted fully strikes at the United States
over the shoulder of Great Britain, for it is
believed here that no English-grown cattle
are shipped to Germany.
The morning call., 1895-01-19
SECRETARIES TO RETIRE.
There Hill Be Important Changes among
German Statesmen.

There Hill Be Important Changes Among
German Statesmen.
LONDON, Jan. 1S.-A dispatch to the Pail
Mall Gazette from Berlin says that in view
of the return of Prince Hohenlohe from
Friedriehsruhe it has been an open
secret that the Imperial Secretary OF
State for Foreign Affairs, Won
Bieberstein; Won Roetticher, the I'm
perial Secretary of State for the In
terror, and Berlepsch, the Minister of Com
merce for Prussia, will shortly retire. Won
Radowitz, the present ambassador at Ma
drid, will succeed Bieberstein, and another
protege of Prince Bismarck will succeed
either Boetticher or Berlepsch.
In addition, Count Herbert Bismarck is
said to be certain of succeeding Count Won
Hatzfeldt- Wildenberg as German En-
bassador at London. 1t is believed that
Hatzfeldt- Wildenberg will succeed Won
Werdon as German ambassador at st.
Petersburg.