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The semi-weekly messenger., 1897-03-12

Hart Sentenced to Two Years Imprisou.
ment.
Philadelphia, March 8-John D. Hart
who was several days ago convicted Of
aiding in the fitting out Of a filibuster-
ing expedition on the steamer Laurada
was today sentenced by Judge Butler
to two years imprisonmet and to pay
a fine OF $500 and costs Of prosecution
Pr1or to passing the sentence the court
refused the motion for a new trial made
last week by Hart's counsel.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1897-03-12

A band Of armed men who are be-
lieved to be Carlists, are traversing the
province Of Sargossa, Spain, seizing
out under the arm another passed
through which they pass. A similar
band is marching through the province
of Valencia.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1897-03-12
Issue Of Standard Silver Dollars.

Washington, March 8.-The issue OF
standard silver dollars from the mints
and treasury offices for the week ended
March 9Th was AIS, ,529: and for the cor
responding period last year 361, OPS. The
shipment Of fractional silver coin from
March 1st to 9Th aggregated $145,S9O
The comptroller OF the currency has
declared a first dividend OF 10 per cent.
to the creditors OF the American nation
al bank OF New Orleans
The semi-weekly messenger., 1897-03-12
The Arbitration Treaty Sent Back to
Committee.

Washington, March S.-During the
executive session of the senate this af-
ternoon Senator Davis moved to refer
the general treaty of arbitration be-
tween the United States and Great Bri-
tain, which is now on the table, back
to the committee on foreign relations,
together with the pending amend
ments. This action was taken without
opposition although there was some i'm
material discussion as to the method
of getting the convention there.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1897-03-12
He Attempted Suicide.

Ocala, Fla, March s-R b. McCrn-
nell, president Of the defunct Mer-
chants National bank. of Ocala, at
tempted suicide one day last week in
Ocaia by taking poison. The physiI
cans who were called had great diff
Guilty in saving Mr.. McConneIl's life
and 1t Is said that he is still danger
ousiy i'll.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1897-03-12
SEVERAL SNEAK BILLS
FOUND AMONG THE RATIFIED
ACTS OF THIS LEGISLATURE.

An Amendment to the "Roiiing ExPos'-
tiou. Cut From the Bili-The Ipead.
lock I'm the House Disgust on all sides
at Action Of Certain Legisiators-Hiie
man Threatened With Impeachment IL
He Does Not Preside-Schame OF the FIJI.
bu.tersConcocted I'm theGovernor's once
The semi-weekly messenger., 1897-03-12

To allow the clerk of Bladen to be abb
sent Mondays.
-, To o ineorporats the Supreme Ruling of
To amend the charter Of Elizabeth City.
To allow Beaufort to levy a special tax.
To incorporate the Carolina, Chimney
Rock and Tennessee Railroad
To repeal chapter 1S1, private acts of
To provide for the working Of public
To incorporate winterville, Pitt county
For the relief of Clerk T. F. Long Of
Richmond.
To amend the law as to cotton weigh
ers in Edgecombe.
To give the fusionists control Of the
penitentiary.
To allow Madison to issue bonds and
levy a special tax.
To pave the streets around capitol
square.
To regulate, the collection of taxes in
To allow w. G. Lewis, ]. P. of States
vile, to practice law.
To regulate the sale of liquor at Mar
shall.
To reimburse a bank in Raleigh for
money it paid "Hoola Boom" Campbell of
the Arlington committee:
To work the roads in Cherokee.
To incorporate the Harnett Central rail-
road.
To incorporate the Mulberry Turnpike
To change the time of holding courts in
the Seventh district.
To appropriate 5000 for the Colored
Teachers Training school.
To incorporate the Carolina Southern
Railway and Lumber Company
To amend the charter of Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce.
To incorporate the Mutual Aid and
Banking Company of New Bern.
TO require the state convicts to work
cerfa,n TO drain rnaGa M II resS pax,e county
criminal circuit.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-24
GARRISON GOSSIP.

Trumpeter Wrobbel, of the battery,
is confined to his quarters with very
sore mouth.
Cyclone" Rohoff, the troop d wind
TANNER, is shortly to join the army
of kodak fiends.
The Golden Rod social clubs mas
querade ball takes place in Schwartz's
hall tomorrow night.
Musician o. Whitman, of B COM
pany and Trumpeter Tanning, Of troop
K, have transferred.
The rear room of the sergeant ma
jors Office in post headquarters build
ing is being repaired.
Capt. Goldman, of troop E, is officer
of the day today and Lient. Fleming
is officer of the guard.
The band played a concert from the
band stand on the upper parade ground
yesterday afternoon at o'clock.
A man named Green enlisted for
company E yesterday. He formerly
served in f, of the Twenty-third.
Private Dalford, of F, troop, has put
in application for a transfer to the
battery. The battery seems to be
quite popular organization.
A grand ball and reception, compli-
mentary to Gen. Graham, given by
the officers and ladies of the garrison
will take place in the post hop room
tonight.
George Troutner, of the hospital
corps, who has been visiting friends
and relatives in CINCINNATI, Ohio, is
again ministering to the afflicted at
| the hospital.
Private Robert o. Conlan, of COM
| pany c, has been detailed as post
clerk in Sergeant Major Sorenson's
office. He was formerly clerk in head
| quarters office of the Twenty-third in
| fantry.
Private Joe Weller, of D troop, was
| discharged yesterday and will start
for Chicago tonight for a two weeks
visit to friends. He will take on
again in the same organization when
he returns.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-24
ANTy And NlIy Union
Very Prosperous Organization At
This Post.
Membership Increasing And a
Bright Career Is Before It.
Post News.

| At the regular meeting of Columbia
| Garrison, No. 81 r. A. and N. u, Mon
| day night, among other new members
regularly mustered in were Commisary
| Sergeant Patrick Kenealy, and Otto
Boese. Three others were also elected
members, making five new members
in all received at the meeting. The
membership is steadily increasing at
each successive meeting of the garri-
son and it will soon be one of the larg-
est garrisons in the union, if the men,
bership list continues to grow in the
future as it has in the past.
At the national convention of the
Army and Navy Union in Kansas City
recently Hon. Henry SCHNEIDER, editor
and proprietor of the Kansas City
Times, was chosen as commander.
Gen. SCHNEIDER, in G. o. No. l, r. A.
and N. U. orders, appointed the fol-
lowing officers of the national corps:
Vice National Commander, S. O..
Trip, Fort Clark garrison No. 1874,
Peoria, Ill.
Adjutant General Richard ]. Fan
ming, Captain John l.. Glen, garrison
No. "A, Columbus, Ohio.
Paymaster General, Patrick Moore,
Gen. Lyon garrison, No. las, Kansas
City, Mo.
Inspector General, John Schumacher,
Gen. George A. Custer garrison, No. 2
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Judge Advocate General, A. P. Pin
Gus, Col. Thomas NJ. Anderson, garri-
son No. 46, Vancouver, Washington.
8. Following are the committees:
Executive Council-Daniel Driscoll,
Lieut., Fred. F. Kislingbury, garrison
No. 1872, Rochester, N. Y; Frederick
Schiller, garrison No. II, Fort Crook,
Neb.; Thomas Shugrue U. S. S. Ma
chias, garrison No. 144.
Finance Committee-Henry Koch
Ter, Fort Smelling, garrison No. 81,
Fore Smelling, Mimi, Wm. Budy, Cen
eral Wesley Merritt, garrison No. So,
st. Paul, Mimi; and Thomas j. Sher-
idan, General Lyon, garrison No. las,
Kansas City, Mo.
Special Assistant Inspector Gener-
al-Michael ]. Hackett, Gen. w. F.
Dali SdillSOll 4NOs Low w ooAllliS lOllJ
d. c.
At the convention, the constitution
was amended in several respects and
one paragraph, which was changed
and which prohibits a man from be-
coming a member unless he has either
served two years in the navy or has
an honorable discharge from the army,
is hailed with delight by the men
Following is the aragraph:
Section IS of the law, relating to
qualification for membership has been
amended so that hereafter only those
are qualified who can produce an hon
Orable discharge and such apprentices
of the navy who served two years and
more"
The three hundred invitations print
ed by the local garrison for it's ball
Sunday night in Muth's garden have
been exhausted and Musician Haight
is printing 100 more.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-24

A little child of ]. r. Hays, living
near Colquitt, Ca, overturned a pot
of boiling water, scalding itself so
severely that the skin came off it's
breast and limbs. The distressed par
ents sent to Mr.. Bush, a merchant of
Colquitt, for a remedy, and he prompt
ly forwarded Chamberlains Pain
Balm. The child was suffering intense
ly, but was relieved by a single appli-
cation of the Pain Balm. Another ap-
plication or two made it sound and
well. For sale by all druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-24
WHY DO THEY OBJECT?
May be Because Paschal Square is Not
Located on Crockett Street.


Located on Crockett Street.
To the Light
In an editorial of yesterdays Express
the editor favors the building of a large
market house, centrally located, or two
small ones for each side of the city,
and mentions that the Landowners"
can wait. The trouble is, the good
people of our city have been waiting
so many years that it seems they never
will be Accommodated by a public mar
ket house, which no one who is famil-
lar with the present mode of disposing
of the market products can deny that a
large centrally located market house is
absolutely needed; and no one can deny
that the west side citizens are entitled
to just as much consideration as the
Landowners of any other plaza OF
place of the city. Our city is FORUM
ate in being in possession of one of the
widest and unoccupied plazas, CEN
trally located and admirably suited
for big public markethouse, which
will be credit to the entire city. The
CITY thereby will not need to go into
extra debts by buying land for the
building of a market house and the
people are now offered an opportunity
to be Accommodated with a first class
market arrangement that will boom the
entire city, beside identifying and en-.
larging San Antonio with a large mum.
Der of other substantial buildings
Let US have such improvements, tht
sooner the better for San Antonio.
A CITIZEN TAXPAYER.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-24
OUR STORE

Will close at p. m. tomorrow
day, L. WoLFSoN.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-24
A GOLD MINE!

Horn Dressing Combs &c
Regular &c Sponges. .....:.'1 &c
zoe Yards Spool Cotton. oc
Pocket Knives, a Big Stock Inst Re-
ceived cheaper than ever from &c UP
sc Dippers. 2c
Gallon Tin Cups. &c
II Quart Deep Sauce Pans. Sc
DC Wire Egg Beaters. 90
Pint Tin Cups. 90
l0c Curry Combs. s.
SOC Ladies' Heavy Vests, with
sleeves. ........ s0c
25c Knife and Fork Trays, "a special
bargain. CONGRATULATIONS. o.
Ladies' ard Misses Gloves from. &c I'D
25c Genuine Steel Screw Drivers to-
6 China Cups and Saucers. .2Sc
Genuine Leather Suspenders. .oSc
Lamp Chimneys, All Sizes. sc
Tin Tablespoons. lc
Tin Teaspoons 2 for. &c
Patty Pans, assorted, per dozen. .iCjc
Pie Plates, 2 for. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. sc
Shaving Soaps Cakes for. &c
Large Corkscrews. &c
Large Goblets, 6 for. .oEc
You will find that by trading with us
you make more money than if you own
ed Gold Mine. Talk about your cheap
stores, there is only one in San Antonio.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-14
FOWLING AND
FOWLERS.


Alex and Henry S. Half bagged 81
quail on the line of S. A. p. last
Sunday.
j. o. Sullivan and Billy Simms bag
ged a nice lot of "speckled beauties"
last Tuesday.
| Charles Chabot and c. C. Jannin
went cunning for quail during the
week at the Matthews ranch.
Messrs. o. c. Guessaz and Joe George
have returned from Gum Hollow and
Copano Bay with plenty of ducks.
Several members of the San Anto-
Mo gun club report bagging some nice
ducks at Elmendorf lake after the last
cold spell.
Ducks and geese are plentiful on the
coast. Their early coming forecasts a
severe winter, old market hunters on
the coast say.
Mr.. Charles Hummel has purchased
the blooded pointer bitch puppy
GLADYS" from Geo. Chabot. That she
VIII be good one goes without say
Ing.
The first copy of the South Western
Sportsman has reached our desk. 1t
is a neat clean publication devoted
to observance of the fish and game
laws, and all legitimate sports; is ed
lted by jackson Robertson & Co., at
Austin, Tex, and promises good sup
port by the sportsmen of Texas.
The Chesapeake Bay dog is con-
sldered the best water dog and pos
sessed of more endurance than any of
the so-called duck retrievers. Princess
the lady," owned by George Chabot,
performed a remarkable swimming
feat in retrieving a wounded red head
duck three hundred yards from where
1t fell and that with a stiff sou-wester
which made the sea quite rough.
jolly party of duck hunters Jour
neyed to the coast last week to shoot
on Copano Bay. There were 1.-TWO
pair and they were hard to beat.
q. A. Showers and W. A. Turner. the
popular travelling freight agent of the
pennsylvania lines with Headquarters
at Fort Worth, and the irrepressibIe
George Chabot and a representative of
the Light. Sixty ducks fell to the
good aim of the party in days shoot,
and they were good ones too.
The new game law of Texas went in.
to effect August goth. II is not be-
lieved that it is intended to prohibit
persons who go hunting and return on
the trains from bringing such game
back with them on the train as they
may Kill, provided it is not shipped"
In other words, they will no doubt be
permitted to bring in their game bags.
The chief object of the new game law
is the preservation of game, and to ac-
complish this the legislation was most
strongly directed at the market hunt
er;'therefore in constituting the law. the
intention of the law-malIer must be of
great weight and is to be construed
literally, for the legitimate sportsman
and most harshly against the destruc.
tive market hunter.-Southwest
Sportsman.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-14

Cheap" advertising is generally
dear. In other words, those mediums
which charge next to nothing for
space rarely pay the advertiser.
While looking for quantity of circu-
lation don't neglect quality. A thou
sand paying subscribers are worth
more than fiv ethousand non-paying
ones"
The local breweries are our most VAL
liable home industries. If there is to
be any exceptions made in franchise
favors, they are entitled to first con-
sideration.
Commodore Salliway, is justly proud
of the. county water and light plants,
and never tires of explaining to the
taxpayers what great money savers
they are for the county.
ut is better to lose a sale occasi 0nai-
ly because of an honest statement,
thar to lose a customer who has dis
covered that @ certain statement was
nos tIue."-Printers' Ink.
Mr.. Ed. H. r. Green must be very
modest young man. He didn't allow
any of the Republicans to see his face
except his friend "Chawles," and posi-
bly, one or two of the pie hunters.
Mr.. Cuney's i'll health has caused his
most violent opponents to desist from
mentioning his name. Not so with the
GosSiper of the Express; he would
dras a man fl IN his grave to point
paragraph.
If you are looking for trade in Aus
tin or Mexico, advertise in those papers
printed and circulated there, but If
you are reaching for San Antonio GUS
toners it's in the Daily Light you
must place your announcements.
The Express Gossipper displays his
ignorance of the personnel of the Ger
man press of our city, when he says
Mr.. Horath is editor of the Freie Pres se
fuer Texas. Mr.. Ho,ath edits Knopps
and Lehman. in the Stats Zeitung.
The Express, our great Religious"
informs the public that Eddy Green
and Charley ogden, held with several
Republicans" secret conferences. Will
the Express be explicit and name time
place and further particulars, such as
names, of local Republicans"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-14
THE SECRET EXPLAINED.
A Little Glimpse Into the Committee
OF Thirty-five.

A Little Glimpse Into the Committee
OF Thirty-five.
On the morning of the 10th inst. an
early riser at the Maverick hotel was
surprised to find still by the light OF
the full moon SO chairs placed in
quinquangular form, and in the midst
of the space occupied by the chairs he
found and picked up a vellum parch-
ment upon which appeared in San
Script (Which has been translated for
us at much expense) the following:
To the Candidate: You having ex-
pressed an earnest desire to Join the
secret order of the 50, by the profane
sometimes called committee of 80, and
having by two brothers been vouched
for as deserving it now becomes my
duty as Brother Interlocutor of the
local order, to state to you that be-
fore you can join our order, regarding
which the profane may hazard con-
lectures without ever arriving at a
knowledge of its mysteries and which
often gives to the uninitiated a mis-
conception of its aims and purposes,
that we never help to fill the Golfers
of those who for the greed of wealth
sacrifice their souls and defile and do
vengeance to their bodies, therefore If
you are ever initiated you will then
know that the man who approaches
you for money claiming to be a broth
amount OF the widX the: Reok-dlealu
er, whether he asks for the small
amount of the widows mite or for a
fortune large enough to make a home
~ girl coYetuous enough for the de-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-14

sires of an effeminated and diseased
aristocrat, OF title-bearer, that such
a man is an impostor. Ours is not the
purpose to acquire wealth, our content
ment rests in the amelioration of man
kind and in a proper enjoyment of life
hence one of our notices is BE merry
, today, for tomorrow you may die"
We are tolerant in religion. Our de-
scendants of Abraham, Isaac and ia
cob have their Talmud, we leave the
Koran to the Turk, the Bible to the
Christian, leave Paganism to the
heather and allow his fire to the
Parsee. hence no such words as Jew
or Gentle will ever be heard in our
grand monthly conversations.
Our obligations are never sworn to,
nor do We have any affirmations to
solemnize our acts for in our midst
none are tolerated whose word is not
as good as a bond.
When assembled at the festive board,
our joviality may last to the midnight
hour but woe to the brother who al
lows profane eyes to gaze upon him
til the dawn of day.
In our politics we are as free as in
our religious beliefs, only tradition
tells US, a tradition lost in the mists of
antiquity, that the founders of our
order. in the remotest part, where the
cocoa was consumed in the tropics and
where the mastodon plantigraded the
sand for the GASES in the desert and
the Behemoth awaited the building of
the pyramids along the Nile, while the
plesiosauria and the ichtiosauria
fought for the mastery of the deep,
that it was inculcated into the in
stincts of our forefathers, that a DEM
ocratic government of the people that
affords the greatest good to the great
est number is preferable to one that
enhances the fortunes of the few at
the expense of the many. hence it is
that our order fiourishes mostly in re-
publics and is the enemy of those rul-
ers who falsely declare that they rule
their countries by. the grace of God.
No brother of our order will ever or
dare ever, ask you for the metal that is
coined, but it becomes our duty when
We find him hungry to divide with him
our loaf and offer him our cup to
quench his thirst.
Having stated, this to you on my
word or bond, you are now ready to
join the benevolent order of the 35. If
the candidate hesitates or responds too
slowly he shall not be admitted. If he
promptly answers yes" then the grand
patriarch attended by the four
grand caziques will select seven of the
brothers to prepare the candidate for
initiation, and If he answers a majority
or all the questions propounded to him
questions that are never written or
printed, he shall be initiated just be-
fore the midnight hour of the lunar
month, when the moon shines longest
and brightest after which he shall be
invested with the secret words and
signs that are handed to posterity by
mouth and hand without any mechan-
zeal implement whatsoever having re-
corded them.
ONE OF 'I>H
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-11-14
SOled Underwear.

Behold how good thing and pleas
ant it is to wear clean undergarments.
To the clearly inclined and the neat
in person, there is nothing so annoys
as consciousness that the under cloth
nothing is the real purity Of once per-
nthing is the real purity ( mes per-
sonal habits seen as plainly as in this
thing. The mental and moral char
acteristics are written as plainly in
this way as in any other. Talk Of the
science of palmistry, or of phrenology,
or of mind reading, or Of clairvoyance,
or of any of the modern fads for dis
covering character and uncovering the
real personality that is hid by clothes
and flesh and other incumberances to
true revealment. The Light preacher
rises to remark that these are not in
it with the undergarment test.
There is not a washerwoman in the
land, who weekly sorts over the cloth
ing of her customers and makes q
mental note of their condition, that
could not give all of these fine haired
character doctors points on character,
just from her observation made over
the washtub. There are not two per-
sons in the largest family in this coun-
try who show the same marks, judged
by their undergarments. Some are
coarse, and some are betwixt and be-
tween, and some are really dainty. 1t
is a mistake to suppose that the dain-
tiness is all with the rich and the
coarseness with the poor. A dainty
mind is as well seen in the wearing
of calico as of silk, of cotton as of fine
linen. The material has nothing to
do with it. 1t is the manner in witch
the wearer stamps self on that ma
teriaL
To some, the one object is to appear
clean and neat and presentable. Tc
another the object is to be neat and
tidy. One is taken up with the idea
of the outer appearance. The other
pays regard to the inner fact. Much
has been written of the unspoken Ian
guage of clothes, outside garments
The tailor knows as much about PEG
pie as the phrenologist. The dress
maker can tell more about the ladie:
that she fits than the mind reader can
There is no disputing this Neatnes:
is tn thing of character, inner being
There is no neatness outside that does
not have it's origin in an inner sense o.
tidiness. Amy appearance to the con
trary is deceptive. The make and
quality of the undergarments and the
care that is taken of them does revea
character.
Show me the person that is more
careful Of his outer garments than hi!
inner ones, and will show you a per-
son more careful of his reputation thar
of his character. The rule applies L
the woman as to the man. Compare
the two, the outer and the inner, and
then you can tell The proportion o.
money that is spent on them is an in
dication. The care that is devoted t.
them is another sign OF the character
The cleanliness OF these outer and in