The Evening Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 92, Ed. 1 Monday, May 8, 1882 Page: 1 of 4
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Vol II No. 92.
ALAMO
(Estate of H. Grenet dec’d).
In order to close out Stock we are
now offering our
ENTIRE STOCK
DRY GOODS
CLOTHING
BOOTS AND SHOES
CROCKERY
CHINA AND GLASSWARE
At Actual Cost.
Just received a Carload of
STINARD’S ROYAL PATENT FLOUR.
STANARD’S EAGLE STEAM FLOUR.
In Barrels Half-Barrels and 251 b. sacks.
FINE LOT MAGNOLIA HAMS.
FINE FRENCH PRUNES
CURRANTS ASPARAGUS
MAILLARD’S FRENCH CHOCOLATE
BAKER’S BROMA In Tins
JOSEPH E. DWYER
Executor.
ta Ste I Nt* M !
NEW ERICES!
Go and Look at the Rush I
12.000 GIVEN AWAY
GRAND OPENING
Of Sprint and Summer Goods! I
AT
A. KAHN & CO.
Cor. Main Plaza and Acequia Street
In order to introduce our goods and to ad-
vertise our low prices we have concluded to
give away $2000 worth of presents in the
following:
CASH IN GOLD - 00
1 PIANO - - 400 00
1 Elegant Bedroom Set 250 00
1 “ Parlor Set . 175 00
i “ Pair Gold Bracelets 100 W
i “ Black Silk Dress 100 0(
50 Yards Brussels Carpet 65 00
40 Yards Fancy Matting 35 00
1 Sewing Machine • - 35 00
i Baby Carriage -.- 35 00
i Gentleman’s Black Suit 35 00
And Forty Other Frizes.
Ranging from $25.00 to 25 cents.
Explanation.—For every Dollar’s worth
of goods purchased from us we will present
you one ticket which will entitle you to one
chance in the above prizes.
We keep in stock everything in the
DRY GOODS LINK.
—SUCH AS
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods
Notions Hosiery!
Ladies’ Misses’ and Children’s
SHOES.
All our Goods are new. We guaran-
tee our prices as low if not lower than any
other house in Texas.
Please give us a call and convince
yourself. Orders from the interior will have
prompt attention.
No tickets genuine unless counter-
signed by
A. KAHN & Co.
Cor. Main Plaza and Acequia St.
faster* open from 7 a. o*4-15*3 to 9 p. m.
The Evening Light.
EPP’S COCOA In Tins
LOCAL DOTS.
—The last “Siftings” is magnificent.
—To-day is a weather breeder; look out for
a storm.
—There were twenty-two cases before the
recorder this morning.
—The mortuary report for the past week
shows a total of ten deaths.
—Several trees were blown down by the
storm on North Flores street.
—1 he storm king was in his glory on last
Saturday night about midnight.
—The Texas editors who went to California
seem to have gone into oblivion.
—Peter Jonas had a regular jam last night
and the tun lasted until a late hour.
—Fines to the amount of $152 were im-
posed in the district court this morning.
—Mr. R. W. Silvey formerly of the Hotel
Maverick leaves in a few days for Monterey
Mexico.
—Governor John C. Brown of the Texas
Pacific arrived in our city to-day and is at the
Menger.
—A license was this morning taken out for
the marriage oi Albert Meyer and Elise Laud-
enbach.
—The pound party will surely come off to-
night at the Soledad street M. E. church. The
public is invited.
—Owing to the visit of the Austin printers
the picnic of the local pointers has been in-
detinitely postponed.
—The appointment of Lord Cavendish
caused dismay among the eaemies of Ireland
—his assassination can be traced to this feel-
ing
—The gerrymander map in the Express
does not do justice to the 10th district. The
neck of the district iS more delicate than rep-
resented.
—A little boy named Foster was charged
before the recorder with throwing stones. The
case was dismissed on account of the youth of
the accused.
—Two men were charged in the recorder’s
court this morning with interfering with a
police officer in the execution of his dutyand
were each fined $2O.
--Dr. Yturbidde was again before the re-
corder this morning on the old charge of
“drunk” and as the police witness was not in
attendance the case was dismissed.
—Leonardez Martinez a lady aged about
thirty-five years died yesterday at her ranche
on the Medina and was hurried there in the
evening of the same day. The deceased leaves
a family of nine children.
—Mr. W. J. Lyons has been selected as
the delegate of the San Antonio Typographi-
cal Union No. 172 to attend the convention
of the International Typographical Union to
be held in St. Louis | une sth. *
—The subject for the debate on Thursday
the 18th inst. at the Literary and Debating
society’s meeting is: “Resolved that the Rail-
road Fares should be reduced.” Messrs. Geo.
A. Wilbur and J. A. Dougherty will support
the affirmative and Messrs. J. M. Emerson
and Tyler C. Williams will appear for the
negative.
—Mr. Jake Marshall gives a thrilling ac-
count of the storm on Saturday night. Mr.
Marshall and Jas. Dignowitty were camped
out on the hills nine miles west of here. Mr.
Marshall says they were fortunately cut of the
real path of the tornado which crossed the
Leon near the Guilbeau ranch and pursued a
northwest direction felling trees and stripping
oak trees of their limbs.
—A citizen of San Antonio who has re-
cently visited Laredo who was there last in
1852 comments upon the improvements being
made in that city. He found the streets ex-
cellently graded good sidewalks on the prin-
cipal streets and above all the neatness of the
improvement of the Main plaza which was in
direct contrast to the public squares which
are allowed to remain dirt-heaps or mud-
holes. The fact is a San Antonian can not
travel in any direction without blushing for
his city.
—The news of the recent assassination in
Dublin need not depress the friends of Ire-
land It is evidently the work of the “emerg-
ency” party who felt that the jig was up in the
appointment of Lord Cavendish as chief sec-
retary of Ireland. Had Mr. Forster been
assassinated there might have been some rea-
son for attributing the deed to the Irish party.
As it is a friend of Ireland has been killed
evidently at the instance of the enemies of the
cause of Ireland.
—The grades of the International approach-
ing the city from the north are simply ridicu-
lous. It is not infrequent for trains to be
compelled to back down the hill to get a good
start in order to reach the top and at the spot
of the Saturday night disaster the tram comes
down a steep grade and usually without
blowing a whistle or ringing a bell although
in the city limits. The railroad should main-
tain tlagmen at the crossing of the main
thoroughfares leading out of the city. The
Boerne road for instance where the coUision
occurred is crossed by hundreds of loaded
wagons daily.
A Na- row Escape.
Mr. Frank L. Paschal who resides with
Mr. Herman Huppertz his son-in-law on
Soledad street feeling badly sough tadvice of
Dr. Cuppies and a capsule of medicine was
prepared for him. By its side was lying a
piece of lunar caustic and Mr. Paschal inad-
vertently took this. The mistake was quickly
discovered and the usual remedies were
jromptly applied and we are glad to say that
dr. Paschal is now out of danger.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS. MON DA K MA YB 1882.
Col. John W Gammel is in the city.
Major Minter returned with Mr. Brecken-
ridge from Mexico.
Mariano Garcia is in the city. One swallow
don’t make a spring but it looks like election
times to Mariano.
Colonel Lee who is appointed to succeed
Major W. B. Hughes at the government de-
pot is expected this afternoon.
Major Hungerford and family have arrived
at the Hord Hotel from Laredo. The party
leaves for St. Ixiuis in the morning.
Mr. Robert Henry Dudley Leicester M.
A-Oxon of Liverpool England very favor-
ably known as a visitor to San Antonio has
just been added to the Texas bar. He has
studied here simply to acquire a knowledge of
American law but does not intend to prac-
tice. Mr. Leicester shortly shortly returns to
England for admission to the bar and to
marry his fiancee Miss Fannie 11. Simpson
of Liverpool.
A R Stevens J Palmer Flint Hill; J Lacey
Houston; A Marchbant Austin; J Weymuller
Mary Weymuller Uvalde; Alormo Perez Mrs
A J Yrine Del Rio; C L White G Milo
Laredo; J 11 James Tyler; H J Nible; A N
Kennedy J C McElyser Round Rock; W II
Scott Medina; P McCliney E Davila Atas-
cosa; Tom Hughes Cibolo; J R Gilmer La
Salle.
W T Merriweather Frio; J W Baylor
Cotulla; Pierce Johnston La Salle; G K
Chene Uvalde; S J Robb Uvalde; M C
Chew Palestine; A H Fonda Independence;
R L Owens Victoria; W J Wingate Organe;
F Carleton A E Habe ht Austin; J M Bom
E A Campbell Houston; S E Utter Round
Rock; J G Carr Del Rio; N L Wood Goliad;
B A Aldrich St Louis; Wm W Ells Bandera;
Mrs M C Davis Converse; W N Hungerford
and family Laredo.
— Perambulators in new styles just received
at Reed’s.
A large audience attended the Soledad
street M. E. church last nightto hear the re-
marks of Parson Young on Freethinkers and
Infidelity. The only vacant seats being in
the “amen corner” our reporter adopted
social equality for awhile and sat beside a
fifteenth amendment.
The subject (infidelity) is an old threadbare
one but we ;could not help but admire the
many bold original ideas advanced by Mr.
Young. He charged that infidelity did not
allow freedom of thought and action as is
claimed but that Christianity did. In reply to
the charge that Christianity tried to make the
mind move in the same groove was false but
what it wanted was to make minds live to
same rules; object was to make men accept
Christ and demands that only the rules ol
Christianity be observed. He said he did
not care what particular church dr denomi-
nation men belonged to —the object
was all the same —only a difference in the
rules and diversity in the mode or form—that
infidelity tried to prevent freedom of thought
by scoffing and ridiculing religion because the
churches and ministers differed. Compli-
mented Bob Ingersol by calling him the worst
autocrat in the land that he held his foot up-
on the neck of thousands of men and women
by his false (?) doctrines. Called attention to
the poor fool who had read some little book
on geology to criticise creation and
the Bible; and had read Caesar and quote
a little Latin; or who hadn’t attended church
for twenty years and knew nothing of the
beauties and truth of Christianity to scoff and
laugh at religion and cry bigotry. He said
the worst of this case is the willful ignroance of
these fellows. He claimed that infidelity itself
was the greatest bigotry and in proof of same
cited the fact that several paitnts had taken
l their children away from Sunday School but
allowed them to attend beer gardens on Sun-
day night and dance until late midnight.
That these free thinkers were afraid of inves-
tigation and conviction claimed that the
church and religion courted investigation.
That there were mysteries in religion as well
as in other things that could not be under-
stood or explained but that the church was
still going on in its investigation and hugging
the truth and hope yet to get out on the broad
shores of (here our pencil broke
and the reporter failed to catch the balance of
the sentence.) Services closed by singing by
the whole congregation “Rock of Ages” etc.
—J. W. Harrington made an affidavit before
Justice Adam this morning charging William
Volner with stealing a horse the property of
S. F. Thackston. The accused has been
jailed.
Justice Adama’ Court. „
H. Schulz vs. E. Rothig suit on pr<. -.sory
note for $130; judgment for the plaintiff.
T Schlessenger vs. Mary Palmer suit on
account; dismissed by plaintiff.
N. Underwood vs. I. & G. N. railroad suit
for damages of $100; set for to-morrow at 10
a. m.
Smith & Redmond vs. French Whitecowton
suit on account for $31.25; set for 4 o’clock
to-morrow.
French 'Whitecotton vs. G. 11. & S. A. R.
R.. suit for damages $200; set for May nth
at 10 a. m.
There were about fifteen other cases which
were continued for services etc.
THE TARIFF COMMISSION BILL PASSED.
On Saturday the republicans pushed the
tariff commission bill to a final vote and pas-
sage the vote standing—yeas 151; nays 85.
Upson was the only Texas representative re-
corded in favor of the bill.
PERSONAL.
Central Hotel Arrivals.
Hord’s Hotel Arrivals.
Kev. Young on Infidelity.
JEWELED GARTERS.
The fashion for wearing jeweled garters has
spread so rapadly that jewelers all keep the
article in stock. They are very expensive.
A member of a conspicious firm explains:
“The rage is recent but none the less strong
and it promises to spread indefinately as the
rage is as unlimited as the purse. All the
prominent society women and many who are
not in society wear them. You see women
constitutionally delight in pretty things and
their adornment is of more interest and enjoy-
ment to them than anything else. If you will
come down stairs I’ll show you the stock.”
There was a showcase full of them each
pair mounted in a velvet box. The pattern
was the same in all as far as the band was con-
cerned. The band was a full inch wide made
of fine elastic and covered with beautifully wo-
ven silk of every conceivable shade pale
blues and warm reds predominating. They are
designed to match the tint of the dress wore
with them. In one case two heart-shaped
clasps of colored gold inland with cross-bars
of torquoises anil pearls joined the ends of a
scarlet band with little frills of silk along the
edges. The price was $lOO.
A pair with two oval clasps of hammered gold
perhaps an inch in length could be bought for
$4B. while the cheapest pair with plain gold
clasps was $46.
“It’s a curious fact” said he jeweler "that
the cheap ones won’t sell. When a customer
wants an elegant garter he—l mean she—is
willing to pay for it.”
A pair that cost $225 had too shields with
three big pearls in each and little diamonds
at the edges. Another pair was expensive
trough its delicate lace whih was arranged in
a fluffy bow-knot with two little gold disks
claasping in the centre.
At another establishment the jeweler said:
“The majority of them are made to order.
Your visit is opportune as I have just finished
the most expensive pair that ever left my fac-
tory. The price is $200.” In this the lace
and pearl-colored silk band was joined by an
elaborate clasp. On one side was the lady’s
monogram in pearls; on the other the coat-of-
arms with frosted storks’ heads a crest of de-
licately carved gold and a motto set in chip
diamonds. It was a present from a mother to
her daughter whois to be married soon.
“Has the demand for such garters increas-
ed?”
“It is a hundred per cent greater than last
year and grows constantly.”
«<>S*IP.
Mr. Lowell has been asked to give the ad-
dress at the proposed memorial service in hon-
or of Longfellow at Berlin.
Mr. Cross it is said has abandoned the idea
of writing a biography of his late wife Marian
Evans or George Eliot.
Dr. Hammond says when you stick your
finger in your ear the roaring sound you hear
is the circulation in your finger.
Count Geza Zichy the one-armed Hun-
garian pianist has accepted an invitation
from the Prince of Wales to appear in sev-
eral concerts in London.
The venerable Geo. Mueller who is now
traveling in Palestine recently made anaddress
to the lepers who live in a little colony out-
side the gates of | erusalem «
It is a mistaken fancy to suppose that ths
leaves of plants grow out of the ground.
They extract from the air what carbon they
need ana thus attain their growth. In other
words it may be said plants live on air.
The late M. Littre through an atheist was
a’man of noblest and purest life. “He is a
saint without a God!” is the epigrammatic
description which Lamartine’s niece gave of
him not long ago.
The next novel in the “Round Robin” se-
ries is a story of Philadelphia at the Centenial
celebration time and is called “Dorothea”
The most successful volume in this series is
said to have been “A Nameless Nobleman.”
The Empress of Austria has invented a sys-
tem of hooks by which she can instantly de
tach the skirt of her habit from the body in
case of a fall from a horse thus avoiding all
danger of being dragged along the ground.
I.ouisville has voted to give the State $l-
000000 to locate the Kentucky capital in that
city. It might be profitable for States to have
their capitols on wheels and show them annu-
ally where greatest inducements were offered!
It is within range of possibility that the mania
furnished in the Wilderness was a species < f
lichen which sometimes still comes to bless
the famine-stricken in that country where
droughts sand and Moslem rapacity combine
to render life all but endurable.
There has been some discussion of late in
London about the future of Italian opera. It
has been said that the thorough realism of the
age will kill music. The tendency upon the
dramatic stage is certainly to appeal more to
the eye than to the ear as is shown by the
gorgeous spectacular dramma which are being
produced everywhere and by the attention
given to furniture and other fittings of the
stage. But it is hard to believe that a time
will come when the whole world will be full
of realistic Zolas who will refuse to succumb
tv the charms of music.
It is estimated that in the Southern States
there are 197 Cotton mills with a capital of
$16000000 and producing $24775000. Of
this amount Georgia has 44 mills with a cap
ital of $19000011. producing $6000000;
North Carolina 50 .21s with a capital of $l-
775000 and producing $5000000; South
Carolina 19 millswith a capital of $ 2850000
and producing $3900000; and Virginia 11
mills with a capital of $1250000 producing
$2500000. It will be seen that Hur States
together have 124 mills out of 197 a capital of
$ o >935.0°0 out of $16005000 and produce
$17400000 out of $24775000. This is a
very fine showing for the South Atlantic States.
IO Cents a Week
The aggregate avoirdupois of the U. S.
Senate is about to be greatly reduced. On the
4th March ensuing the state of Illinois with-
draws 400 and odd pounds of its live stock
from that institution. It is considered by the
suckers that David breaks more national
chairs than their patriotism can warrant that
he is distantly related to the crank family that
he suffers from a general unfixedness which
all together make him an awkward mess of
politics to handle. The press will miss the
great senator. For six years he has been one
of its stand-byes and journalism feels a be-
reavement of that kind more than any one but
a scissors man and paragraphist knows. It is
hoped that some party that likes variety in its
politics or is given to change will get David
Davis out for president. The presidential is
not a jockey race and weight is no hindrance.
It is amusing to a man of common sense to
watch the bi-metalic delusion * in financial
politics. This absurdity of regulating the value
of gold and silver by act of congress began
with Alexander Hamilton at the beginning of
the government and has been persisted in in
the face of repeated practical proofs of its
absurdity ever since is still persisted in. The
silver dollar is now found to be 4 and 3 mills
per cent less than when it was coined simply
because the market value of silver as a com-
modity has depreciated that much. And this
is not understood. The depreciation is
ascribed to the fact that the late international
congress failed to fix a value upon gold and
silver as a standard. And here the Austin
Statesman exclaims: “It is now believed that
both England and France will have to aban-
don their resistance to the double standard
because of pressure from this side of the At-
lantic.” We would suggest to our respect-
able contemporary that what England and
France will be more apt to do send the fool-
killer over here. Is it not astonishing that
common sense should be so much more rare
than any of what are called the rare gifts as
eloquence or genius or learning ?
Congressman Randall who is often dis-
turbed by cobwebs though he don’t mind be-
ing kicked by a mule the other day unwound
in a fuss over the proposition to grant a con-
tinuance of pay for two years to members of
life saving crews disabled in the service or to
their families when losing their lives in the
discharge of their duties. Mr. Randall eject-
ed a good deal of blatter “thus creating
a privileged class” and “thus establishing a
civil pension list” and about its being “un-
justifiable under our system of government.”
Now the pay of these members in the coast
guard is $33 a month while the surfmen at
the stations get $4O; not enough to live in
the absence of disability and imposing actual
starvation in the events contemplated by the
bill. Seen in the light of such legislation as
“under our system of government” is con-
stantly expending millions on privileged
classes and civil pensioners often wasteful
gratuities' and sometimes upon unworthy ob-
jects besides this captious legislator appears
to be a very little bug and rather a curiosity
of the insect world. The House sat down on
Mr. Randall and these poor and deserving
men engaged in arduous and hazardous pub-
lic service will have the little miserable relief
the bill offers.
The proneness of legislation to interfere
with private business and of its priviledged
corporations and classes to run to it for its in-
terference are shown by the bill now before
the New York Legislature called the penal
code which among other unwarrantable acts
proposes to suppress a class known as ticket
brokers who buy and sell railroad tickets on
I commission or second-hand tickets or buy at
wholesale and sell singly the proposed code
making this traffic highly penal. What
grounds exist upon which this can be pretend-
ed to be justified we are not informed and can
not imagine. There is no aleatory feature
or feature of fraud in this traffic. Nothing
but the legitimate properties of an open and
fair trade as that in clothing books or other
merchandise. In New York one half the rail-
road tickets for western travel are said to be
sold by these outside brokers. The wonder
is that people submit to this sort of encroach-
ment on their rights. AU such violations of
personal right are everywhere unconstitutional.
There are no constitutions that do not hold
individual rights inviolable. The New York
ticket brokers may safely go to the courts for
redress if this proscription becomes law. The
fact is seven-tenths of the legislation going on
all over the country state and national is
either mischievous or unnecessary and in
most instances both. We hope the time is not
distant when it will be found that a Legisla-
tuee once in ten years will answer best the
legitimate purposes of government. If gov-
ernments will let people as individuals alone
and the people as individuals will let govern-
ments alone that fact will soon be ascertained
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