The Evening Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, March 31, 1882 Page: 3 of 4
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The evening light.
TIME CARD
Arrivals aud Departures ot Trains aud
* Stases.
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~ G„ H. &5. A. RAILROAD.
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Mixed „ ■ 1 4:30 m ~ J 9:10 a - m '
MEXICAN PACIFIC EXTENSION.
L«av«s 9:3°3 “_ I Arrives 6:10 p. m.
EL PASO STAGE.
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Advertising Directory.
G CAEN'S French Dyeing and Scouring Estab-
lishment Casino street. All work guaranteed.
COKNS Bunions and Ingrowing Nails extracted
without pain by A. Frey Chiropodist. Office
•t L. Browdowski’s barber shop 55 Commerce street.
LOU IS SCH EI HAGEN Commerce street branch
house or. Military plara. Dealer in Agricul-
tural Implements General Hardware of all kinds
tach as wagons etc
How Longfellow Wrote Evangeline
In an interview a short time ago the poet
gave the following details of how he wrote his
masterpiece:
Expressing preference for his “Evangeline”
1 ventured to say: “1 see that you located the
final scene of that beautiful story in Philadel-
phia.”
“Yes sir. The poem is one of my favorites
also; as much perhaps on account of the man-
ner in which 1 got the groundwork for it as
anything else.”
“What is the story please?”
“I will tell you. Hawthorne came to dine
with me one day ami brought a friend with
him from Salem. While at dinner Mr. Haw-
thorne’s friend said to me ‘I have been try-
ing to get Hawthorne to write a story about the
banishment of the Acadians from Acadia
founded upon the life of a young Acadian girl
who was then separated from her lover spent
the balance of her life searching for him and
when both were old found him dying in a
hospital.’
“ ‘Yes’ said Hawthorne ‘but there is noth-
ing in that for a story.”
“1 caught the thought at once that it would
make a striking picture if y>ut in verse and
said: ‘Hawthorne give it to me for a poem
and promise me that you will not write about
it until 1 have written the poem.”
“Hawthorne readily assented to my request
and it was agreed that 1 should use his friend’s
story for verse whenever I had time and in-
clination to write it. In 1825 I started for Eu-
rope and when in New York concluded I
would visit Philadelphia and so went over.
“It was in the spring about this time ami
the coun’ry was as beautiful as it is to-day. I
spent a week in the Quaker City slopping at
the old Mansion House on Third street near
Walnut. It was one of the best hotels I ever
stopped at and at that time perhaps the best
in the country. It had been the private resi-
dence of the wealthy Binghams and was kept
by a man named Head. The table was ex-
cellent and the bed-chambers were splendidly
furnished and were great large airy rooms —
as large as this” turning round and surveying
the ample library room in which we were
seated. “It has given way now to the de-
mands of business I believe for when I was
last there 1 could hardly recognize the place
where it stood. During this visit I spent
much time looking about and Philadelphia is
one of the places which made a lasting im-
pression on me and left its mark upon my
later work. Even the streets of Philadelphia
make rhyme:
Market Arch Race and Vine
Chestnut Walnut Spruce and Pine.
I got the climax of ‘Evangeline’ from Phila-
delphia you know and it was singular how I
happened to do so. I was passing down
Spruce street one day towards my hotel after a
walk when my attention was attracted to a
large building with beautiful trees about it in-
side of a high enclosure. I walked along until
1 came to the great gate and then stepped in-
side and looked carefully over the place. The
charming picture of lawn flower-beds and
shade which it presented made an impression
which has never left me. and twenty-four years
after when I came to write Evangeline I lo-
cated the linal scene the meeting between
Evangeline and Gabriel and the death at this
poor house and the burial in an old Catholic
graveyard not far away which I found by
chance in another of my walks.
“It is purely a fancy sketch and the name
of ‘Evangeline’ was coined to complete the
story. The incident Mr. Hawthorne’s friend
gave me and my visit to the poor house in
Philadelphia gave me the groundwork of the
poem.”
“The claim is that the Quaker almshouse on
Walnut street near Third is the one referred
to in ‘Evangeline.’ ”
“No; that is not so. I remember the place
dintinctly. It is the old poor house I referred
to which stood on the square between Spruce
and Pine and Tenth and Eleventh streets.”
Mr. Longfellow then took from an adjoining
room a picture of the old Quaker almshouse
and explained that the spot which attracted
his attention and marked Philadelphia for the
final act of “Evangeline” was not this old in-
stitution as had been so often claimed.
W’hen your Uncle Samuel J. rose up and
informed the six nations of Chicago that he
hoped providence would raise up a man whom
the democrats can elect he echoes the plain-
tifi cry of the Constitution for a leader. What
we want is for somebody to bundle the major-
ity of our so-called democratic statesman to-
gether place them under the counter and get
a brand-new leader. As Editor Lamar says
the democratic party wants another Jackson.
»— [ Atlanta Constitution.
“Spinach Served Elegantly*”
Boston Correspondence Providence Press
I remember Mr. Whittier at dinner
at a line house once. The lady was not finical
but she was conventional in manner speech
and action. The table was the ordinary daily
routine but it was elaborate and beautiful in
every detail of furnishing and food. We had
a spinach served elegantly—a dainty in the
cold winter weather. Mr. Whittier eyed it
suspiciously then presently asked his hostess
for information by the question: “What do
you call that herb?” It was delicious-not
the herb but the “old dear’s” naturalness ami
ease It seemed like a sudden opening of the
door into another room —another atmosphere
where to do as everybody else does and to
know everything that everybody else knows
was not necessary to human life and enjoy-
ment but rather the reverse. How many peo-
ple simply bred to plain country life would
dare to show the simple ignorace that Whit-
tier did?
A Washington correspondent speaking of
Gen. Grant’s recent visit to Washington says :
It has been a 1. ratification to citizens to see
the figure of Gen. Grant once more upon the
streets taking his afternoon stroll and smoke
for while he was a resident here he hedged
himself about with none of the formalities of
his position and was a regular pedestrian.
His wanderings on foot were within ordinary
walking hours—generally late in the afternoon.
President Hayes thrived on the rugged virtue
of early rising and was up with the laik and
the laboring man prowling around the city at
the milkman’s hour and stirring up the watch-
men of the public buildings from their morn-
ing’s drowse. This administration is not dis-
tinguished by any such rustic customs and
President Arthur says that it is often 5 o’clock
in the morning before he has finished enough
of a day’s work to go to bed. The two friends
were out for an airing yesterday afternoon
Gen. Grant stolid and imperturbable as ever
under the sleek covering of a new silk hat.
President Arthur had a boyish and airy look
in his little low-crowned Derby. To-night
Mr. George Bancroft the historian dines
these illustrious citizens to-morrow evening
Gen. Beale plays the host ami on Saturday
evening Mr. Bancroft Davis the assistant
secretary of state entertains them.
Some thirty years ago Mr. Green an
amiable Englishman seeing a rather shabby
old man looking tor a seat in church opened
his pew door beckoned to him and placed
him in a comfortable corner with prayer and
hymn books. The old gentleman who care
fully noted the name in these latter ex-
pressed his thanks warmly at the close of the
services. Time had effaced the incident from
Mr. Green’s recollection when he one day re-
ceived an intimation that by the death of a
gentleman named Wilkinson he had become
en'itled to $35000 a year. Mr. Wilkinson
was a solitary old nun without relatives.
Green’s act prepossessed him in his favor; he
inquired about him ami found that he bore
the highest character. There was a marvel-
ously courteous hospitality in the matter of
pews for some time after that bequest but no-
l>ody else has yet got $35000 a year for a
seat.
MlHcellaneous I twins.
One of the most promising young American
painters now residing in Italy is Mr. 11. R.
Newman whose picture of Venice taken at
early morning is described in Galignani’s
Messenger as follows : “The sky of that
peculiar blue filled with suffused light such as
is only seen at sea. over a large expanse of
country or at Venice is touched with feathery
clouds which indicate a slight upper current of
wind. The horizon is enveloped in a haze
that foretells a day of intense and palpitating
heat. The gondo’as ami heavy sails of the
quaint fishing boats scarcely move in the faint
air and all their reflections and those of the
lovely Salute church and the tall red campa-
nile of San Giorgio Maggiore are rendered
with a masterly hand.”
The ex-Empress Eugenie is living tempo-
rarily in London and spending much of her
time among the poor. This gloomy picture
is now presented by one who sees her every
• lay: “The tall erect and stately figure is
bent and drooping; the queenly air is akin to
that xif the mendicant; the fair locks in their
luxuriant wealth of tresses are white as snow
and thin and scanty in appearance; the large
expressive and animated eyes half vi det and
half blue are gray watery and leaden-look-
ing; the oval face is wrinkled and worn by
care and the beautiful face is supplanted by a
sepulchral whiteness.”
On Ottoman newspaper has tersely summed
up the net results of the French campaign in
Tunis finding them to be these; for France—-
glory typhus diarrhiea. For the Arabs—-
civilization famines massacres. General total
—death ami misery. It then protests against
a method of inculcating a beneficient civiliza-
tion by ravaging the harvests cutting down
the fruit trees confiscating the flocks burning
the homes and inassacreing the old men wo-
men and children of a population which was
living in happy ignorance of the laws of mod-
ern progress. The pestilence it declares to
be the only gainer.
A German painter once obtained permission
to paint some great court ceremony in which
the Emperor William and his son Fritz were
the central figures. The emperor asked the
artist to show him the sketch of his picture.
On examining it he noticed that the crown
prince was represented standing with one foot
on the steps of the thrown dais Heat once
asked a bystander for a pencil and altered the
sketch which was returned to the audacious
artist with the significant words “Not yet”
written under the figure of the prince.
Vanity Fair of London makes General
Schenck the author of the present English
mania for poker playing in private life. But
General Schenck in amiably writing out the
rules of the game at the request of Lady Wal-
degrave had no idea nor did the lady have
any that poker playing would become the
after-dinner rage of English society that a
youth just of age would lose five times
more than his vearly income or that one
d ner out could 1 a e / toooo last year.
Betty and the Baby are having a sentiment-
al run in some of the cities. They constitute
the family of Mason the bad marksman. In
Baltimore and Washington nickel subscrip-
tions are being received for their benefit. A tin
box marked “Bitty and the Baby” in the
counting room of the Baltimore American re-
ceived 450 nickel pieces on Friday.
fj?“Subscriptions and advertising taken
for the N. 0. Times-Democrat at 235 Com-
merce street Vy T. B. Johnson agent and
correspondent. The daily issue received ev-
ery day by express. 3-15-tf
Austin Texas September 27 1876.
Dr. J. S. Nicholds:—l am afflicted with
“weed” in my breast and by the application
of your “Wonderful Eight” was entirely re-
lieved in a short time.
Mrs. M. E. Trigg.
For sale by F. Kalteyer & Son.
Geriiian-EiigliHh Scnool
The next annual term of the above school
will commence on Monday the 17th of April
next when a limited number of pupils can be
admitted.
Barents will please to take particular notice
that pupils for the lowest class will be receiv-
ed at the beginning of the term only ami not
during the year.
Applications should be made early to the
secretary Mr. Nic-Tengg.
San Antonio March 3d. 1882.
Wanted—Merchants and business men
who are in need of first-class printing to give
the Light office a trial.
Montoetolas Ford Tex. April 16 1877.
This is to state that I have used your “Won-
derful Eight” for pains sickness of the stom-
ach cramping of the bowels and headache
and I can truthfully says that it complies with
its recommendations. F. S. Mayfield.
Houston Manufacturing Company.
Manufacturers of cypress waler tanks and cis-
terns of any size from one hundred to a
100000 gallons. We set up every tank and
mark each piece and every hoop. Scale
drawings showing foundation and support
will be sent to all purchasers free of charge.
Prices and estimates furnished on application
to F. F. Collins corner Semmes and Conti
streets Houston Texas. 2-27-tf
Notice to the Public.
Parties desiring electric lights before decid-
ing will consult their interests by application
at the office of the San Antonio gas company.
This company will be prepared to furnish
electric light wherever wanted promptly and
on satisfactory terms.
Thos. G. Williams
3-4-1111 Sec'y S. A. Gas Co.
HUMERAL MARKET.
Orwin.
Corn per bushel 1 o6®i 10
Oats per bushel
Kansas Red Winter Wheat No. 1 70
Kansas Red Winter Wheat No. a 1 6c
Kansys Red Winter Wheat No. 3 1 50
Rye No. 2 perbushel 100
Barley
Cracked Corn chops 80(11.95
Corn Meal 1 00
Ground Mixed Corn and Oats .x 40(9.2 60
Butter.
Goshen 3°@4O
Northern per lb 25(0.3°
Oleomargerine 20
Comyon Country per B
Dair Country per %
Lard.
Tierce.....
Tins <3%
Potatoes.
Irish per lb 3%@4
Sweet per busee! 1 00
Alen Porter Etc.
Mueller’s Beer quarts pints per cask 6dz 21 00
Deetjen’s ale quarts per cask 6 dozen... 22 00
English ale pintsper cask 8 dozen 18 00
English Porter pints per cask. 8 dozen... 18 50
English Porter quarts per cask 8 dozen.. 18 io
St Louis Beer Anheuser’s qts > cask 6 dz 13 00
Milwaukee Schlitz quarts per cask 6 dos 13 00
bugar.
Crushed
Powdered
Granulated ionium
Standard A... x°%
Extra C
Prime La 9X
Fair La 9%
Uotfee.
Market steady.
Cordova 14(815
Rio fair 12(813
Rio prim* t3%<a>4
Rio choice 15
Dried Fro its Eto.
Apples 8
Beans White 7%
Citron ao
Currants 9
Dates 9
Peas Split and Green 5
Peaches 13%
Prunes Turkish
l.ayer Raisins Whole per box 3 2*@( 65
Laver Raisins Halves per bos 1 20
Hides.
Market firm.
Prime ao As and over 16(817
Seconds
Damaged and Bull
Vinegar.
Common per gallon 18(0.22
Pure ci’«r .. 30. sirs
Alden Fruit Bird Brand —@2B
Baovu.
Long clear ii%
Short clear n)i«4rt
Hauu.
Canvased >3@>3M
Whitaker 15%
Flour.
Market steady.
Patent Process 9 50
Fancy 8 25(0 8 50
7 80(428 00
XXX.? 7 50(0*7 60
XX 7 75
Kloe.
Louisiana per ft
Carolina
Nheep Dip Tobacco.
Hill’s Extract of Tobacco retail per can.. 5 00
Bennett’s Diamond ... 950
J. Oppenheimer & Co.’s 9 00
Lumber.
PRICES CORRECTKO BV PRANK J. BEiTBL.
• Texas pine rough per thousand $25 00
1 Texas flooring T. and G. dressed per M 32 00
! Texas boxing dressed per thousand 32 00
Yellow Pine dressed. 1% and 1% per M.. 40 00
Yellow pine T. and G. per thousand . 35 00
Flooring y. p all heart T. and G.. per M 40 00
Boxing dressed yellow pine per M 35 00
. Siding dressed yellow pine per M... 25 00
Ceihng jb dressed yellow pine per M... 25 00
Siding dressed yellow pine per M... 32 so
Ceiling Va dressed yellow pine per M... 32 50
White pine from 1 to 2 per thousand.... 70 00
Siding white pine per thousand 32 50
Ceiling JL while pine per thousand 32 50
Poplar per thousand 60 00
White oak pei thousand 60 00
Sawed cedar per thousand 50 00
Failingwhite pine D and H per M .... 4000
Failing yellow pine D and H pet M... 35 00
Failing vellow pine rough per M 30 00
Laths white pine per thousand 7 51
Laths yellow pine per thousand 5 50
Shingles Long & Co.’s “O. K.” per M... 7 00
Shingles all heart cypress per M 6 50
Shingles cypress second quality per M.. 5 50
Shingles cypress third quality per M.... 5 co
Shingles yellow pine per thousand 4 50
Shingles "Shoo-Fty” per 4 ae
F. Grogs President
INTERWIONMTE
I 8r G. N. (M. K. & T ;R’yjCo. Lessees.)
THE DIRECT LINE
-FBOM-
Gahestou Houston San Antonio
Austin and Hearne
—TO^ALL^FOINTS —
Nwtli Nurlliwest Northeast Southeast
- BV 1 U£ COMPLETION OF TH«-
MISSOURI PACIFIC EXTENSION
FROM OEMSON TO MINEOLA
The Traveling Public is afforded the benefit of a New
Direct Through Route
To Sedalia Kansas City Leavenworth Hannibal
Omaha Denver and all points in Kansas Nebraska
the Territories aud California and all points in the
North and East. Passengers may take their choice
of routes either via this New Line through the
BEAIiTIFUL INDIAN TERRITORY
Or via the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern
Railway to St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Pitts-
burg Philadelphia New York Boston Baltimore
Washington and all principal points in the North
East.
PuUmau Palace Sleeping Cars
between SAN AN TONIO AUSTIN HOUSTON
and ST. LOUIS Without Change.
SL3”For Tickets and Information apply to th!
Ticket Clerks at the offices of the company.
F CHANDLER General Passenger Agent.
C. B. KINNAN Assistant Gen. Passenger Agent.
11. m. Hoxie b. w. McCullough
General Manager. Gen. Ag’t for Pass’r Dep’t.
LUMBEII! LUMBER!
Carpenters aud Builders Head
And Remember
FRANK J. BEITEL
Has the Lajgest Stock of*
Luiiih Sliingles Doors
Sash aud Blinds Lathes
Pickets Bricks and Oak.
And Everything in the Builders Line.
4*3)1“ Bear in mind if you need anything in
my line and don’t forget to buy of
FRANK J..BEITEL.
OFFICE aud YARD at I. & G. N. DEPOT.
Ha-Has just received 200 Carloads As-
sorted Lumber. !-9-3m
MRS. REO. R. NORTON
ACCOUCHENESS
Late From St. Louis Mo.
Is located at 24 Elm street aud ready to answer
calls. Speaks both English and French. 3-2-tf
ZPrairie Hay
I beg leave to announce to consumers and deal
ers in Western Texas that 1 carry at all times the
largest stock of
PRAIRIE HAY
aud all kinds of
FEED AND QRAIN
And will fill all oiders with promptness at the lowest
prices. My facilities for handling Hay and Grain
are unsurpassed by any house in the Stale and
your patronage is respectfully solicited.
HARVEY T. D. WILSON
Commission Merchant and Wholesale Dealer in
Grain and Hav. Houston Texas. 2-i-im
AMERICAN HU USE.
BOERNE TEXAS.
Invalids and others wishing to visit the
country will find the above house the equal of
any in point of real comfort; a table bounti-
fully supplied with the best of fresh milk
butter eggs and poultry and beef of a very
superior quality.
Terms—By the day $1; month. $25.
1-5-tf A. W. Barr Proprietor.
J. S. Lockwood J. H. Kampmann
LOCKWOOD & KAMPMASN
(Successors Thornton & Lockwood.)
And Dealers in
MEXICAN DOLLARS AND BULLION.
Telegraphic Transfers Made. Bills co any part ot
Europe and Mexico
F. GROOS & CO.
HANKE R.S;
and dealers in
Excnanire Coin Bullion. Etc. Etc.
“BILLIE & JOE”
FIRST-CLASS SALOON.
Mixed Drinks according to season put up in
First-Class Style.
Pure Wines aud Liquors
ICE COLD BEER AND “ HALF-AND-HALF’’
ON DRAUGHT.
at their popular saloon on Soledad stre.t.
SIM. COOLEY & CO.
Saloon and Billiard Hall
LAREDO. Texas.
Open Day and Night.
The best of refreshing drinks served up in modem
style. Billiard tables may be equalled but not sur-
passed in Vestem Texas. Finest of wines liquors and
cigars and polite treatment always in store. tf
T. J. Devine. w. S. Smith.
DEVINE & SMITH
JYttorneys-at-Law.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
: Rooms 7 and 8 Devine
Building Soledad
o
Will attend to all business in the state and Federal
T-!8-tf.
BELL & BROTHERS
No. 11 Commerce St.
Diamonds Watches Jewelry
Silver and Plated Ware. Cutlery etc.
San Antonio Texas.
KPSpectades a Specialty. Watches and JawaLf
repaired. Engraving dona. Charges reasonable:
B. SCHWARZ
Loan Office
South-west cor. Military Plaza.
Money loaned on Diamonds Jewelry and all ar-
tides of value at low rates. All business transactions
strictly private. Forfeited pledges for sale at less
than half their value. goods warranted as ren-
resented. jani-tf
AN EXPERIENUED MATCHMAKER
Offers His Services to the Public
North Side Main Plaza Near Schram’s Store.
Had thirty years of experience as the head work
man of the greatest watch factory in Geneva Switz
er land. English watches in particular (generally
ruined in this country by repairers) turned out aa
good as new. JOE SCHMIDT.
PHIL. DEI
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
No. 237 Commerce St.
Will furnish Wooden and Metallic Burial Cases an
Caskets Hearses and Carriages at all times. Offic
’pen day and night. (kig-tf
ED. BUCKLEY
COTTON AND WOOL
MERCHANT
I beg leave to inform the public that it is to their
interest to call on me before disposing of teeir pro-
duce as II represent first-class mills; and will be
found at the office of my agent. A. J. T. Beaure-
gard Losoyo street. ED. BUCKLEV. 823 2m
CLAFLIN & THAYER
Manufacturers and wholesale dealers in
BOOTS and SHOES
Nos. 160 and 162 Congress street corner Frankliu
and second door from Pearl Boston
Ge As Wills Ageut Sail Antonioe
With full line of samples. Matagorda St.
NARCISO LEAL
Live Stoek Exchange®
AND
General Commission Dealer
San Antonio Texas.
C. A. MAGERSTADT
EC ATTER!
N0.Q33 Commerce Street.
(Next door to Light Office.)
kinds of men’s*hats made to order. Hats
pairered at reasonable charges. 2-15.3 m
Helotes Ranche.
SlandaOallions.
RED BULLS SHORT-HORNED THOR-
OUGHBRED CATTLE.
Southdown Rams;
THOROUGHBRED.
PASTURAGE.
Stock delivered every Saturdaj- at Reaver’s sta-
bles will be taken out and brought back fiee ot
charge.
Bandera Road 14 miles from San Antonio.
i-zB-iy F. GUILBEAU
UNIVERSAL
STOMACH BITTERS I
MANUFACTURED BY
TH. G-FtEJSTET
San Antonio Texas.
The UNIVF.RRAL STOMACH BITTERS'have
been fully tested and carefully examined by Mr.
George Kalteyer a well-known chemist and Dr.
Menger city physician. Both declare them to be
manufactured of pure herbs aud the best of spirits
and recommend them to all suffering from a weak
stomach. The Bitters are also very effectual as a
preventative.
Also keeps constantly on hand a well assorted
stock the best Liquors Cognac and Bl ckuerty
Brandy Whisky Kuinmel Flcr de Cafe Anisette
Cordials Etc.
The Universal Stomach Bitters are manufactured
bv H. Grenet under the peasonal supervision of
Mr N Keifler the inventor of the renowned
Malakoff Bitten t-ty-em
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