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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02
T. F. CONWAY.
A. B. RENEHAN,
Notice for Publication.
Small Holding Claim No. 436.
LAND OFFICE AT SANTA FE, N. M,

June 8, 1896.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named claimant has filed notice of
his intention to make final proof in sup
port of his claim, and that said proof will
be made before the register or receiver,
at Santa Fe N. M, on July IS, 1896, viz:
Jose A. Rlbera, of Pojoaque, n. NJ, for
lot 2 in sections and 5, tip. 16 H., 70 O.,
and lot in sections 20, 20 and 80, tip. II
n, r.9e.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his actual continuous, adverse pos
session of said tracts for twenty years next
preceding the survey of the township, viz:
Jose Antonio Romero, Jose Jacinto Gall
egos, Miguel Aranaga y Romero, Fran
cisco Ortiz y Tafoya, of Santa Fe, N. M.
JAMES H. WALKER,
Register.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02

COL j. W. DIVER writes the Optic that
he expects to hold no office under the
next administration. Col. Dryer cut his
eye,teeth in New Mexico politics several
years ago. He sees the handwriting on
the wall
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02

The NEW MEXICAN is the oldest news
paper in New Mexico. 1t is sent to every
foStotiice in the Territory and has large
and growing circulation among the intelli-
gent and progressive people of the south
west.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02

Well. How About Judge Morrison.
We admire the consistency shown by
our own representative, Maj. W. II. H..
Llewellyn, in advocating silver through
out the convention. The major is "al
right" anyhow.-Las Cruces Republican.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02

q Notice Is hereby given that orders given
by employees upon the NEW MEXICAN Printing
Co., will not be honored unless previously
endorsed by the business manager.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02

Small in size, but great in results. De-
Wits Little Early Risers act gently but
thoroughly, curing indigestion, dyspepsia
and constipation. Small pill, safe pill,
best pill. Newton's drug store.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02
N 0tice
Advertising Rates.

y Requests for back numbers of the NEW
MEXICAN, must state date wanted, or they
VIII receive no attention
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02
Notice for Publication.
Small Holding Claim No. 91s.

LAND OFFICE AT SANTA FE, N. M, I
June 26, 1896.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing-named claimant has filed notice of
his intention to make final proof in sup.
port of his claim, and that said proof will
be made before the register or receiver,
at Santa Fe, N. M, on August 10, 1896,
viz: Simon Vigil, of Santa Fe, N. M, for
the tract in sections 81 and %, tip. II H.,
r. Zoe.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his actual, continuous, adverse
possession of the tract for twenty years
next preceding the survey of the town
ship, viz: Juan Moya, Benito Borrego,
Francisco Gonzales y Chavez, Rafael
Truiillo, all of Santa Fe, N. M.
JAMES Ii. WALKER, Register.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02
j. B. BRADY,

Dentist. Rooms in Kahn Block, over
Spitz' Jewelry Store. Office hours, 3 to
IL a. M; 2 to SPIN.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02
PROFESSIONAL CARDS,
DR., e, T.. MURREIT.

DIR. Z. Z. MURRELL.
Practice limited to diseases of the eye,
ear, throat and nose. Office with DR..
Crosson, Palace avenue. Office hours:
10 to IL a. m.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02

EDWARD l.. BARTLETT,
Lawyer, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Office,
Catron block.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02
PRESS COMMENT.
(atrOn'S Choice.

Governor Pedro Perea. Who can tell
Las Vegas Optic.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02

GEO. w. KNAEBEL,
Office in Griffin block. Collections and
searching titles speciality.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-02
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

MAX FROST, a.
Attorney at Law, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
GEN. GRANT IN WARTIME
Personal Appearance of the Com
mander OF the Army.
Counterfeit Presentments of Him Were
Widely Circulated at First - His
Clear and Musical Voice and
CnmiIitary Gait.

Writing of that period of Gen. Grants
career when he had become commander
of the union forces Gen. Horace Porter
says in the Century magazine:
A description of Gen. Grants per-
sonal appearance at this important
period of his career may got be out of
place here, particularly as up to that
time the public had received such err
roneous impressions of him. There
were then few correct portraits of him
in circulation. Some of the earliest
pictures purporting to be photographs
of him had been manufactured when
he was at the distant front, never stop
ping in one place long enough to be
focused" Nothing daunted, the prac-
TIGERS of that art which is the chief
solace of the vain, had photographed
burly beef contractor, and spread the
pictures broadcast as representing the
determined, but rather robust, features
of the coming hero, and it was some
time before the real photographs which
followed were believed TO be genuine.
False impressions of him were de
rived, too, from the fact that he had
come forth from a country leather
store, and was famous chiefly for strik-
ing sledge-hammer blows in the field,
and conducting relentless pursuits of
his foes through the swamps of the
southwest. He was pictured in the pop
ular mind as striding about in the most
approved swashbuckler style of melo-
drama. Many of us were not little
surprised to find in him man of slim
figure, slightly stopped, five feet eight
inches in height, weighing only 1S5
pounds, and of modesty of mien and
gentleness of manner which seemed
to fit him more for the court than for
the camp. His eyes were dark gray,
and We're the most expressive of his
features. Like nearly all men who
speak little, he was a good listener;
but his face gave little indication of his
thoughts, and it was the expression OF
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08

his eyes which furnished about the only
response to the speaker who conversed
with him. When he was about to say
anything amusing, there was always
a perceptibie twinkle in his eyes be-
fore he began 10 speak, and he often
laughed heartily at witty remark or
a humorous incident.
His mouth, like Washington's, was OF
the letter-box shape. the contact OF the
lips forming q nearly horizontal line.
This feature was of a pattern in strik-
ing contrast with that Of Napoleon.
who had bow mouth, which looked as
IL il had been modelled after a front
view of his cooked hat. Tho f1rmness
with which tho generals square-shaped
laws were set when his features wero
in repose was highly expressive OF his
force of character and the strength of
his will power. His hair and beard
were of O chestnut-brown color. Tbs
beard was worn full, no part of the
face being shaved, but, like the hair.
was always kept closely and neatly
trimmed. Like Cromwell, Lincoln and
several other great men in history, he
had a wart on his cheek. In his case 1t
was small, and located on the right
side Just above the line Of the beard.
His face was not perfectly symmetrical,
the left eye being little lower than the
right. His brow was high, broad and
rather square, and was creased with
several horizontal wrinkles,' which
helped to emphasize the serious and
somewhat careworn look which was
never absent from his eountenance.
This expression. however, was In no
wise an Indication of his nature. whici,
was always buoyant, cheerful and hope
ful. His voice was exceedingly musical.
and one Of tho clRarest in sound and
most distinct IN utterance that have
ever heard. Il had a singular power OF
penetration, and sentences spoken by
him in an ordinary tone in camp could
be heard distance which was surpris-
ing. D..
His gait in walking might have been
called decidedly unmilitary. He never
carried his body erect, and having no
car for music or rhythm, he never kept
step TO the airs played by the bands, no
matter how vigorously the bass drums
emphasized the accent. When walking
in company there was no attempt to
keep step with others. In conversing
he usually employed only two gestures:
one was the strol1ing of his chin beard
with his left hand; the other was the
raising and lowering of his right hand.
and resting it at intervals upon his
knee or table, the hand being he'll
With the fingers close together and the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
Money Made of Gum.

The oldest money in the world is
coined by the mint officials of the Malay
peninsula. 1t is a thin disk or wafer of
hardened vegetable gum, which is OBJ
tanned from the bola tree and mixed
with emery sand. These coins have the
smallest exchange value of any medium
in the world, excepting, perhaps, the
shell money of the west coast of Africa.
No other piece of money can be ac-
quired with SO small an expenditure
of time or goods as the bola gum coin,
and when a mana European-hap-
pens to come into possession of some
millions of them he is not esteemed
rich, but unlucky. Some idea of the in
finitely small value of one of these coins
may be gained from the statement that
a copper cent can be readily exchanged
for 10000 Of them.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
SUPPLIES FOR BEXAR COUNTY.

Bids will be received by Bexar
county for the furnishing Of the fol-
lowing articles for the year 1897, viz:
GROCERIES.
Flour, Meal, Coffee, Sugar, Lard,
Bacon, Beans, Salt, Rice, Coal Oil, etc.
FORAGE.
Corn, Hay, Oats, Bran, etc.
CLOTHING.
Shoes, Socks, Blankets, Hats, Goats,
Pants, Unbleached Domestic, Canton
Flannel, Jeans, Cotton Plaids, etc.
MEDICINES.
List Of the standard articles to be
furnished by the County Physician.
STATIONERY.
Pens, Paper, Pencils, Ink, Small
Blank Books, Erasers, Rulers, Rubber
Bands, etc. Co.,.
BEEF.
Exclusive Of Shanks, Neck and
Heart. .....
Bids will be opened by the Honora-
BILE County Commissioners Court Of
Bexar County at ten o'clock a. m,
Monday, December IA, A. D., 1896.
The court reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
Published by order of said court.
San Antonio, Texas, December 2, A.
D., 1896. THAD. w. SMITH,
County Clerk BeYar County, Texas.
12-3-10t.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08

buckles bent, so that the pacK UI Tie,
hand and fingers formed a right angle.
When not pressed by any matter of i'm
portance he was often slow in his move
ments, but when reused to activity he
was quick in every motion, and worked
with marvellous rapidity. He was civil
to all who came in contact with him.
and never attempted to snub anyone.
or treat anybody with less considera-
ton on account of his inferiority in
rank. With him there was none of the
puppyism so often bred by power, and
none of the dogmatism which Samuel
Johnson characterized as puppyism
grown to maturity.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08

any arrangement of the delicate organ
ism which gives her her womanhood.
Some women hardly realize that this is
the one and only cause of all their mis-
cry. Doctors frequently treat them for
neuralgia or dyspepsia or insomnia. Be
side this, modest women shrink from the
ordeal of examinations and local treat
ment which doctors are sure to insist
upon.
There is no need of these difficulties !;
there is no need of enduring this misery
and unhappiness. DIR. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription cures the complaints of the
feminine organism completely and per-
manently. 1t is the most perfect remedy
ever devised for that purpose. 1t is the
only medicine for women's troubles in
vented by regularly graduated physi-
clan, skilled and scientific expert who
has spent lifetime in studying this
special class of diseases.
Mrs Bessie Mcpherson, of No. ss South Main
Street, Providence, X. l., writes: If could
only say one little word to my sisters who are
suffering each day from the ailments which 1
suffered from for years. My Affections were te-
male weakness Inflammation and weak back
The trouble grew so much worse, that could net
bear the weight Of my pet cat on my lap: grew
Respondent, wishing for death. only lived and
suffered, But the Advise God wanted me for
better purpose, and If can only be the means OF
bringing light and driving sorrow away from one
poor mortal, by telling them of that most won
my time has been we'll spent took only
few bottles and was completely cured. hope
this will meet the eyes of some poor respondent
sister, and cause her to cheer up"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
l. & G. n. RAILROAD.

North bound trains leave for Aus
tin at a. H., 500 a. IN. and $50 p.
m.,; and arrives from Laredo at 7:30
p. m.
South bound trains arrive at 8 a. m,
7:15 p. M, and 9:55 p. M; and leave
for Laredo at 9:45 a. m.
M. X. &. T. FROM 1. & G. n DEPOT
Trains leave for Waco, st. Louis
and Kansas City at $50 p. M; and
arrive at $50 a. m.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
East bound trains arrive from Mex
leo and Eagle Pass at 11.30 a. m;
and leave at 11.50 a. m. and 10 p. m.
for Houston, Galveston and New Or
leans.
West bound trains arrive from New
Orleans, Houston and Galveston at
7:25 a. m. and 4:25 -p. M; and leave
for Eagle Pass and Mexico at As p.
N.
8. A. & A. omission ROUTE.
Trains leave daily for Cuero, Hous-
ton and Galveston at 8 a. m; for Bee
vile, Corpus Christi and RockpOrt at
2:25 p. m; and arrive daily from the
former places at 7:05 p. M; and from
the latter at 1:40 p. IN.
Kerrville Branch - Mixed train
leaves San Antonio daily except Sun
day at 2:45 p. m; regular passenger
leaves San Antonio Sundays only at
$50 a. m. Mixed train daily except
Sunday arrives at San Antonio at
10:45 a. M: regular passenger train
Sundays only arrives at San Antonio
at $50 p. m.
s. A. &.GULF SHORE.
Train leaves San Antonio for Mar
tinez, Sanders, Atkins, Lavernia and
Sutherland Springs at 9 a. m, daily
except Sunday.
Arrives at San Antonio at 2 p. m,
daily except Sunday.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
A Plant That Intoxicates.

The laughing plant of Arabia pro-
duces small, bean-like seeds, small
doses of which. when dried and
powdered, intoxicate like laughing
gas. The person indulging in the drug
dances, laughs and shouts like a mad
man for about an hour, when he be-
comes exhausted and falls into DEATH
like sleep. which often lasts several
hours-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
HERE is A CHANCE.

A seven-room stone and brick house
with all modern improvements, bath,
closet and electric light; size Of lot,
AS by 208 feet, stable, carriage house,
cow shed, large chicken house, divid-
ing fence for COW yard, fine shade
trees, situated on a beautiful eleva-
ton overlooking city and convenient
to car line. Price $4,000, one-half cash,
balance 1 and 2 years at 8 per cent
The lots are worth the money. Call
and see John Il. Hambleton & Co.
Daily Light Building. II 5 TT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
wORKMEN AND MECHANICS

Can get better value for their money
from us and better terms than can
be had anywhere. We will sell them
NEW PIANOS on $40 monthly install
ments, WITHOUT NOTES OR IN
TERSET, or will sell them on week.
ly payments il necessary.
Remember we have been among
you upwards Of 80 years, spent our
money with you, given you employ
ment during that time, and will still
continue to do so. Give us a call
when you want Piano or an Organ
and we will make you such terms
and prices that cannot be touched,
much less met by any house North
or South.
- 6 If THOS. GOGGAN & BROS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

The NJ. X. & T. Ry. (the Katy will
make rate of fare and third for the
round trip between all points on this
line within the state OF Texas; ticket
on sale Dec. 23rd, Oath, 25th. 30th,
31st and Jan. LIST, limited to January
4th. 1897, for return.
For further information apply to
any M. K. & T. ticket agent or write
to w. G. CRUSH,
G. P. & IT. A., II. X. & T. Ry., Dali
les, Texas. II II
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
NOTICE OF TAX SALE FOR 1895.

BY virtue of the tax role of the City
of San Antonio for the year 1895, and
in compliance with the laws of the
state of Texas, and city charter, and
city ordinances, in my capacity as col
lector of taxes for the City of San
Antonio, have levied upon and will
during legal hours, commencing on
the first Tuesday in the month Of
January, 1897, being the fifth day Of
said month, and on each succeeding
day thereafter until the sale is COM
pleted, sell at public cutlery to the
highest bidder for cash, the described
parcels of land and town lots, lying
and being in said City of San Antonio.
or such portions thereof, as published
in the Daily Light, on November
22nd, 25th, and Goth, 1896, as will sat
-isfy the taxes due and unpaid, by
each respective person therein named
and interest with accrued costs and 10
per cent penalty, before the door Of
the court house, in the City Of San
Antonio. County Of Bexar, the pro-
ceeds of the sale to be applied to the
payment of said taxes, costs and pen
atty.
Said taxes, costs and penalty may be
paid at any time before sale day.
HENRY UMSCHEID.,
City Tax Collector.
City Collectors Office, San Antonio,
Texas.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
TO THE VOTERS OF THE 9TH
WARD.

I take this method Of announcing to
the voters of the 9Th ward that l am
a candidate for the office of alderman
at the ensuing election. 1 am in IA
vor Of substantial street improve
ments. I favor the payment OF s1.50
per day to laborers on city work. 1
favor the employment of San Antonio
citizens on city work. / am in favor
Of the speedy completion Of the sew
ers. am in favor Of an economical
city government, but am opposed to
the policy Of reducing the pay of the
small man, while the big fellows are
left untouched. Respectfully,
H, j. VOGLER.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
FOR COLLECTOR.

The Light is authorized to announce
CARL RUNGE as a candidate for
Alderman for the Seventh ward, sub
ject to Republican nominating con-
vention. Election February, 1897.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08

That complete de-
spondency or utter
d despair of living
which comes over
women who suffer
from the peculiar
weakness of their
sex, is one of the
most horrible symp-
toms. The entire
system and
the mind are so af-
fected that there
seems to be nothing
in life worth living
for. A WON an 5
whole outlook upon
life is darkened by
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
HARD TIMES PRICES.

Furniture, mating, children toys,
curtains, rugs, quilts and other ari-
cles suitable for holiday presents at
half price. Nj. BECK.
IL 3 2St 227 e. Houston st.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
COAL! COAL!
Texas.

The Southern Ice company sells on
ly the best Indian Territory coal, all
lump. Tel. 146. IL I'm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
TWO UPRIGHT PIANOS.

We have two bargains in second
hand Upright Pianos at $50 each on
easy payments.
- 6 If THOS. GOGGAN & BROS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
FOR MAYOR.

We are authorized to announce
JAMES p. NEWCOMB as a candi-
date for Mayor, subject to the action
of a Republican convention.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-08
JEWELLERS.
.. Rertxberg, Opt1cian.


Is nearly here. Don't wait until
the last hour but come NOW and
make your selection from the larg-
est line of reasonable priced, yet
good things, in Sterling Silver
Jewelry, &C. ever shown.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-08-12
VITALITY OF TIE SOIL.

Not many years ago the sell was re-
garded by the agriculturist as dead, in
ert matter, devoid of vitality. The theo-
ries of fertilization of the soil based upon
this idea, and the methods of culture
were conducted according to the same
theory. The only vital thing which the
farmer considered was the growing crop
itself, and there was no suspicion of the
relations existing between the vitality of
the crop and the living organisms of the
field. The reader of agricultural litera.
ture Of today does not need to be told
how all this has been changed in the
last twenty years. The soil is no longer
regarded as dead and inert matter, but
is known TO De so pnrmeated with liv-
ing beings AS to entltle it to be con
sdernd living mass. The parts of the
soil which are not endowed with life
now receive their highect significance
as the environment Of the living organ
isms which they contain and which they
may help to nourish. The plant which
forms the growing crop receives it's
nourishment through the media Of the
air and soil, but this nourishment must
undergo process Of digestion before it
becomes avail liable as plant food, similar
to that suffered by the food which nour-
ishes animals. Indeed. the purely
mineral, inorganic foods of planGs are
probably not always absorbed as such,
and must undergo a decomposition be-
fore they are assimilated. A striking
instance of this is shown iu the case of
silica, an important plant food and a
type of inert mineral matter. Silica IS
highly insoluble and apparently the
least suited Of the mineral constituents
of the earth to enter the vital organisms
of the plant. Yet not only do we find it
in the tissues of the mature plant, but
also strange to say, in greatest abun-
dance in those parts Of the plant organ
isms, viz, the leaves most remote from
the sources of supply. 1t is evident
from this that the highly insol1ble silica
of the soil must undergo complete
solution in order to be carried by the
1uices of the plant through the network
of cellular tissues to be finally redepos-
tied in the leaf.
The same statement may be made
with regard to the other purely mineral
foods of plants. 1t is quite certain that
they do not become part of the plant
organisms in the form in which they
are found in the soil or applied fertiliz-
ers. In phosphorus, for instance, is
found one of the most important mineral
foods for plants. This substance exists