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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
wRENOHED FROM THE WIRES,

Corn is reported burning up in many
fields in Karnes county.
The silver men capture every thing
in the Ohio Democratic convention.
Culberson says he is satisfied with
the actions of the sound money men,
if they are.
The imperial council of the Mystic
Shriners is in session at Cleveland, o.
National troops and Indian scouts
are securing South Sonora for rene
gade Indians
Boss Plat speaks a word for the
the national ticket and two for the
state at Carnegie hall, New York.
Johnnie, the 7-year-old son of J. A.
COursey, of LlanO drowned i'm the
river there.
Bailey heads the Its of Texas dele
gates to Chicago and Hogg brings up
the rear.
There was no endorsement of Cleve-
land at the late State Democratic con-
vention at Austin.
The silver delegates to the Chicago
convention will rendezvous at Texar-
kama and start on the Fourth of July.
The Texas Democracy have come to
the point of endorsing protection to
raw materials.
]. w. Smith is nominated for con-
gress by the Populits of the 18th dis
trict.
Sharkey is not knocked out in his
fight with Corbett, but shows himself
a match for the champion.
Mrs. Fred Boerner browns herself
and three children in the river at New
Braunfels.
There is a strong silver element de-
veloped in the New York Democratic
| convention.
The forces in the Ohio Democratic
convention for and against silver stood
$40 to 12S.
There is a stormy time in the In
| diana State Democratic convention
and the police are called in.
Hill, Murphy, Flower and Coudert
! are elected delegates at large from
New York to Chicago.
Corn growers in Williamson are cut
ting up their crops for fodder, despair
ing of rain.
George Colony shoots a Mexican
| near Weimar, Colorado county. :. No
particulars.
Jim Wells is turned down in the eau
Gus of the Goth district as delegate to
Chicago, because he is not for free sill
yer.
The board to locate the Masonic
home for Texas gives notice of the
places considered for the location and
the time at which they will be visited.
1t is pretty well settled that Major
Fly, of Galveston, will be the guberna-
tOrial candidate of the sound money
wing of the state Democracy.
Temporary Chairman Taylor, of Col
umbus, is Missed for calling Cleveland
the Benedict Arnold Of the Demo
cratic party.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
WHITE AND BLACK CRAvATS.
In Former Times They Were Badges of
the Wearers Profession.

In Former Times They Were Badges OF
the wearer's Profession.
Years ago the white tie in this coun-
try was the characteristic wear of the
reverend clergy, their monopoly.
Thence it passed into general use and
disputed popularity with the black.
The black neckcloth was early in this
century likewise a professional badge.
Those who followed the profession Of
arms claimed the right to wear it as
their monopoly and sometimes en-
forced that right. Cooper in "Wing-
and-Wing" makes very dramatic use
of this custom. A French privateer
captain in disguise has fallen into the
hands of the English and is brought
before court-martial. So skillfully
does he stick to his assumed character
of fisherman that his judges are puz-
zled until one of his accusers suddenly
places around the prisoners throat the
black necktie which all officers wore.
Then his true character blazes forth
and he is condemned, but escapes ex-
ecution to die, sword in hand. Cooper
knew what he was writing about, for
he, too, had been an officer.
Military and naval men wore black
crayats when in plain clothes and
civilians aped them until black be-
came the only wear. Before the rise
Of the black cravat careiessly tied
white lace, the Steenkirk, had been in
vogue for neckwear. Its popularity
likewise was a civilian tribute to mill
tary valor. At the battle of Steenkirl1
the French royal guards, the house
hold troops, being suddenly called
from their tents to meet the oncoming
English, had no time to tie their rich
lace cravats with their accustomed
neatness and loosely knotted them
about their Threats. They were the
dandies of Europe, the perfect pinks Of
military propriety, and were cores
pondingly brave. They did up the
English in about one round and hence
forward the Steenkirk cravat was the
fashion, and the more carelessly it was
knotted the more Steenkirlly it was.
AS white is now the color of peace
may not the psychologists be justified
in hailing snowy crayats as evidences
of mans recognition that peace hath
her victories not less fashionable than
those of war and as worthy of being
commemorated at the neck? - Boston
Transcript.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Mr.. c. L. Lowdsy has returned
from a visit to st. Louis.
c. w. Dawley, a prominent
business man Of Dallas, is In the
city. ..'
Miss Lizzie Gibson, of Bethany,
La, is visiting Mrs. &. H. Ginnis,
Prospect Hill.
Mrs. r. N. Lane and son w. B.
Lane, are in the city from Eagle
Pass, visiting Judge j. r. Blocker
and family.
Andrew Scheidemantel, Of Gal
weston, who has been visiting
friends and relatives in this city,
returned to the Island City last
night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
An Honorable Age.

Yesterday was the eightieth
birthday anniversary of Jacob
Coll of North Flores street. Mem
bers of various Maennerchors Of
the city rendered him serenade
last night, after which refresh
ments were serve and toasts made
in honor of Mr.. Coll. He enjoyed
it very much. The order of Sons
Of Hermann and the Krankenkas-
sen Verein were well represented,
Mr.. Coll being member OF both
organizations and one of the organ
izers of the first lodge Of Sons Of
Hermann in the state.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
SCOTS AND EDUCATION.
More College Men In Scotland Than In
England.

More College Men In Scotland Than In
England.
This desire for education is, indeed,
the best feature in the intellectual tenn
permanent of the Scottish people. Tho
well-known ambition of the Scottish
mother to have her son 'wag his pow
in pulpit" is now somewhat weakened
by the opening up of other paths of in
tellectual achievement, but there is still.
says Westminster Review, a widely diff
fused desire for intellectual in prefer.
ence to commercial pursuits. 1t is an
indication of the craving which exists
for knowledge in general that for every
young man who goes to college in Eng
land seven go to colleges in Scotland.
In 1885 Scotland, with a population OF
S,725,OOO, had $500 students attending
her four universities, while England,
with 26,OOO,OOO of population, had 5000
attending her four teaching UNIVERSE
ties. This, 1t may be supposed, has
some connection with the large per-
centage of Scotch lawyers, doctors, cler-
gymen and schoolmasters to be met
with throughout the English-speaking
world. The success of "the Scot
abroad" is perhaps not entirely or even
mainly due to his theology, but it was
at any rate the Scottish kirk that found.
ed and fostered the Scottish educa~
tional system, and as to theology itself.
If it has tended to confirm in him that
quality of high seriousness" which
Matthew Arnold considered SO impor.
tant a feature in the best type of char.
acter, then the Scotchman's theology
and its associations have borne a not
inconsiderable part in making him
what he is.
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"PA FELT LONELY"
Queer Freak of q Drunken Brute In
Cleveland.

Queer Freak of q Drunken Brute In
Cleveland.
A Cleveland family was in court the
other day. A daughter was one of the
witnesses, and she had this cheerful
tale to tell of her father: PA was sit
ting in his saloon, feeling lonely. He
went to the barn, and putting a halter
on his horse brought him into tho
house, saying he wanted the animal
to eat supper with him. Pa made me
set plate for the horse. Then he took
hold of the horses front legs and lifted
them up on the table. We all Shutdown to
supper and the horse began to eat. Pa
picked up a mug of beer and began to
laugh and throw both hands in the air.
The mug hit the horse on the nose. The
beast pulled his feet down, dragging
the tablecloth and upsetting the table.
The horse backed up and sat squarely
on a redhot stove. This burned its
tail 50 the animal kicked the stove over
and ran out OF the door. 1 screamed
and pa threw a lamp at me. The house
came near catching fire, and a police
man came in. Pa has been arrested
10S times"
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Alleged Defaulter For 100000.

NEW YORK, June 25.-The Her.
AIDS correspondent in Guatemala
city, Guatemala telegraphs the
arrest OF an American, John l..
Cowan. Mr.. Cowsn is reported to
be resident of Pittsburg, Pa.
The charge upon which he is
held by the authorities OF Guata-
mela is the defalcation, as alleged,
of 5000, 600.
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To Notify NICK inley.

OMAHA, Neb., June Ex-senator
John M. Thurston has issued the
following notice:
"The committee selected by the
republican. national convention to
notify Hon. William Mckinley Of
his nomination will meet at the
Hoolenden hotel, Cleveland, o.,
June 2S, and proceed by special
train on the morning Of June 20 to
Canton, Ohio. The train will re-
turn on the afternoon of the same
day. JOHN M. THURsToN,
Chairman"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
Judge Trumbull Dead.

CHICAGO, June 25.-Ex-Senstor
Lyman Trumbull died at his home
In this city this morning at 3
o'clock. He had been ill a long time,
but rallied at intervals, causing
hope that he might eventually
recover. His last relapse, how
ever, settled his fate In the minds
of his physicians and the end has
been expected daily for the last
week.
Judge Trumbull was born at
Colchester, New London county,
Conn. In 1913.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
Distortinr the SUN,

Observations made at the Kharkoff
observatory last year indicate that the
forces which produce the black spots
on the sun may have a wonderful effect
in heaping up the solar surface in the
neighborhood where the spots exist.
Some of the measurements showed that
a line through the center of the sun
from a group of spots to the opposite
side was as much as 200 miles longer
than other adjacent diameters of the
sun. This seems to show that the sur
face of the radiant globe is swollen out
at the points where great eruptions oc-
cur.-Youth's Companion.
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Cruel Examiners.

A reporter for the Cincinnati Trib-
une lately overheard a dialogue be-
tween two suburban gentlemen,
How did your daughter pass her ex-
animation for position as teacher?"
asked the first man.
"Pass!" was the answer. "She didn't
rass at all. Maybe you won't believe it,
but they asked that poor girl about
things that happened before she was
kr,,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
Not the Replies Intended.

The following extracts are from eo
animation papers recently handed in
at a public school in Connecticut: 1.
From what animals do we get milk7
From the camel and the milkman- 2.
The hen is covered with feathers. With
what is the cat coverede, The cat il
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
The Financial Plank O. K

CANTON, Ohio, June 25.-'Gov
Mckinley is daily receiving assur-
ances from Colorado and other
western states Of hearty support at
the polls, and assurances that
there Is no disaffection in that
territory on account Of the finan-
cial plank.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
Real Estate Transfers.

Emma III. Hamilton to West
End Town company lots l and 2,
block II, West End; $500.
West End Town company to
Emma II. Hamilton, lot Is, block
Is, Colorado avenue, West End; ST..
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25

covered with fieas. 3. Name an animal
that has four legs and long tail. <
mosquito. 4. Name two kinds of nuts.
Peanuts and forget-me-nuts.
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he Tries It Again.

CHICAGO, June 25.-Letter Car
risr Smith started Tuesday morn
ing to beat the Chicago-New York
road record, but when IS miles out
was caught in a storm and had to
return. He left again st $3.50 last
night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
ATTENTION !!

Contractors, Carpenters and Consum.
ers of lumber. Get prices from VIM.
Cameron & Co. before buying.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
ATTENTION.!

Contractors, Carpenters and Consum-
ers of lumber. Get prices from VIM.
Cameron & Co. before buying.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
No GRIPPE

When you take Hoods Pills. The big, old-fash
Toned, sugar-coated pills. which tear you all to
pieces, are not in 1t with Hoods. Easy to take
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-25
gbeBtlLIlbhvnerGo
Invite you to call and see their line o
JeVelry, Watches,
Sterling Silver, Etc.

And learn how cheap good things can be
sold. 327 West Commerce Street,
San Antonio, Texas. 6 6 I'm
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and easy to operate, is true
of Hoods Pills, which are HSI>
up to date in every respect.
Safe, certain and sure. All

druggists. CSC. C. l. Hood & Co., Lowell Mass.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-04
Mountain Mahogany.

A bundle of mountain mahogany
sticks lying in fronb of the express Office
reminds us forcibly of old times down in
Nevada. In the eastern part of the
state this is about all that can be pro-
cured in many localities for fire. wood.
It is as hard as flint and holds fire like a
government appropriation. Out at
White Pine we we're engaged at one time
in baling hay. The corral was made of
mahogany logs, and for lack of some
thing better it was used to do our cook
ing with. One night Black Jack, the
cook of the outfit, was lying asleep in
his bunk, his foot sticking out from be-
tween the covers, and his big toe lying
rtemptingly an inch away from its neigh
Dor. Charley DAILY, who had been i'm
Sbibing bug juice at neighbours to an
unlimited extent, came in and cav
Jacks toes. At the same time his
drunken gaze fastened on glowing ma
hogany coal. In minute he had
ecooped up hand full of ashes, placed
the live coal on top, and in less time
the coal between Jacks gaping toes. In
Just about half second Charley was
going out the cabin door, pursued by
two pistol balls, one of which lodged in
the door casing, and the other cut the
sleeve of his coat. There was no hay
baIed next day, it taking the whole of
It to patch up treacherous peace.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-04
Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gener-
ally needed when the languid, exhausted
feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid
and sluggish and the need of tonic and
and Alternative is felt. A prompt use of
this medicine has often averted long and
perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medi-
cine will act more surely counteracting
and freeing the system from the malar-
ial poison. Headache, Indigestion, Con-
stipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bit
ters. SOC and $1.0O per bottle at Blake
ley & Houghton's drug store.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-04
Ladies Committee on Reception.

The ladies committee on celebration
of the opening of the locks have adopted
the idea of having the reception com
mittee composed only OF those who have
resided in The Dalles for a number OF
years. This committee will receive the
visitors in the Umatllla House parlors
Thursday evening and is composed OF
the following ladies': Mrs. Wilson,
Mesdanes Thornbury, Sinnott, Myers,
Marden, Gibbons, Brooks, ]. B. Con-
don, Wiley, S. B. Adams, Lang,
Schenck, VIM. Michel, E. Mcfarland
Wingate, Shackelford, Schanno, Lord,
Liebe, q. F. Moody. Ruch, 6. H. Bar
nett, O. Lewie, J. w. Lewis, Joles,
Buchler, Schmidt, J. Baldwin, Nicholas
d. M. French, Smith French, L. Butler
E. Schultz, Biggs. Gates. Mary Booth
Clark, Gray, Curtis, j. H. Wood, Miller
Donnell, Doherty, A. D. Skaggs and J.
L. Thompson.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-04
THE RIeGEsT Gar.
1t Is Thirty Inches Long and Weighs
Twenty-FOur Pounds.

1t Is Thirty Inches Long and Weighs
Twenty-FOur Pounds.
just plain Tom is the unpretending
name of probably the greatest domestic
cat in the world.
Edward Simmons, a fish and oyster
dealer of New York, is the proud pos
SCISSOR of Tom This giant of cats
is 80 inches in length, from his head to
the tip of his tail. He is foot high,
and weighed last spring "A pounds.
The recent hot weather has caused him
to drop a few pounds of flesh, but has
not impaired his health or happiness.
Thomas is black and white, and is
rather peculiarly marked. He has two
complete rings of white around his tail,
which makes him look like first cousin
to a raccoon.
Mr.. Simmons picked up the cat two
years ago while walking along South
street. Thomas was but a stray kitten
then, SO that his pedigree has never
been ascertained, and it is not known
whether or not heredity has had any
thing to do with his enormous size.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-11-04
NOTICE.

BY order of the Common Council of
Dalles City. notice is hereby given that
sealed bids for the construction and
placing of twenty-four posts for street
lights, and the repairing and putting in
condition ready for use of twenty-four
oil lamps, will be received at the Re
corder's Office until o'clock 2. m. Mon
day, Nov. I'd, 1896.
Bids will also be received at the above
named place and time for the lighting.
furnishing of oil and repairing of said
street lamps.
Specifications may be found at the
Recorders office.
g. w. PHELPS, Recorder.
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800 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires coneti-
tutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Care is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the foun-
dation of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprIetors have 80 much
faith in its curative powers. that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials. Address:
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
90 Sold by Druggists. rs cents.
No. 2-8.
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LIQUOR FROM GAS BURNERS.
Device of a Portland. Me-. Hotel for
Evading the Prohibition Law.

Device of a Portland. Me-. Hotel for
Evading the Prohibition Law.
Everybody who visits Maine has a
different story to tell on his return of
his experience in getting drinks, says
the New York Sun. The champion
story is, perhaps, told by well-known
travelling salesman. He says that when
he asked for drink at a Portland hotel,
he was shown into a room, which had
nothing in it but table, on which were
pitcher of water and several tumblers,
and a few chairs.
Over the table was chandelier, with
apparently half a dozen gas burners.
When the cocks were turned, however,
not gas, but liquor came out of the
burners, which were horizontal, on the
tips being unScrewed. From one burner
came whisky; from another, rum; from
another, gin. Each burners supply pipe
connected with cask of some one of
these liquors in the room above.
The man who tells this story says that
the Indictment papers against the hotel
in question for selling liquor would fill
a bushel basket, but none of them viii
ever be brought to trial; at least, none
has been yet. Since adopting this de-
vice, the hotel has evaded detection.
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Fasted Nearly Two Years.

DIR. Tanners famous fast of 40 days
is thrown into the background as a
starvation feat by the performances of
the big anaconda at the Philadelphia
geological gardens, which was only re-
Gently tempted to eat a nice fat rabbit
after going hungry for % months. 1t
may have been even longer, but the
keepers have no record of the creatures
doings previous to it's captivity, and so
can't tell. 1t is not very unusual for a
snake to abstain from food for several
months, at the end of which time death
generally results; but the anaconda
case is distinctly different from any
other. It's fast lasted more than twice
as long as any in the history of the
"zoo," and during the whole of its con-
tinuance there was no evidence of i'll
health. The spell now seems to be en-
tirely broken, and the anaconda calls
regularly for it's meals.
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stands at the Head.

Aug. ]. Bogel. the leading druggist of
Shreveport, La, says: cdr. Kings
New Discovery is the only thing that
cures my cough, and it is the best seller
1 have" J.F. Campbell, merchant of
Stafford, Ariz., writes: "Dr. Kings New
Discovery is all that is claimed for it; it
never fails. and is sure cure for Con-
sumption, Coughs. and Colds. I cannot
say enough for its merits" DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds is not an experiment.
1t has been tried for quarter of CEN
tury, and today stands at the head. II
never disappoints. Free trial bottles at
Blakeley & Houghton' drug store.
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HIS CREDITORS FOUND HIM.
Mr.. Jones Had Been enable to See Them
During Long Search.

Il
Mr.. Jones Had Been enable to See Them
During a Long Search
George Washington Jones, a colored
gentleman, was sad, very sad. He was
calciminer when he had work to do,
says Harper's Round Table, but, IS he
expresses it:
'tDem dere white trash hab ponc into
de trade, an now Ise got no work to
do" But this was not what made him
sad. ''Dis yere life he said, ''am not
wuth livin'."
whats the matter, George?" in
quired his friend.
''Why, Ise got little money on dat
last job, and Ise went round to settle
de bills Ise owed"
Didn't you attend to it all right %
"Dar's de strange part of it. De
butcher he wuz out, an de grocer he
wuz out, an every one Ise wanted to
pay wuz out, an den what'd do but
lose dat money"
''Well, that was unlucky, and no mis-
take; but still you showed your good
intentions, and no doubt they won't
press their claims.''
''Press dere claims! Yah. dat's de
trouble. When Ise got 'omc found
cherry one of dem waitin' to press dere
claims, an as Ise couldn't fix dem, dey
done an fixed me-"
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Advertising Rates.
Personal MENTION.

J.. schaeffer of Moro is in the city.
Hon. F. N. Jones of sherar's Bridge lie
in the city.
DIR. A. P Stowell of Vancouver, Wash.
is registered at the Umatilla.
Mr.. ]. E. Rand of Hood River was up
last night to take in a modicum OF
politics.
Hon. A. Byrkett of White Salmon
came up to see the Republican parade
last night, returning this morning.
Hon. E. L. Smith and wife and Miss
Anne Smith were passengers on the
Regulator this morning, bound tor their
home at Hood River.