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VOL. II No. 305
BARGAINS!
AT —
GUI'S ALAMO STORE.
FILL AND WINTER
CLOTHING
In Job lots or at retail at extremely
low tigures.
HATS. BOOTS. SHOES
AT AND
Below Cost !
Fine assortment ot CLOTHS and
JEANS at lowest figures. Also a
BEAUTIFUL lot of GENUINE
French Silks
At prices that will astonish the ladies.
Delaines & Brocaded Dress Goods
Cheaper than anywhere.
WMmii®
AT COST.
Grocery Department
Will be kept up to its FULL standard
with the
Best I Freshest Merchandise
Constantly on Hand.
Lot on Commerce street and house on Main
plaza; also two residences for sale. Apply to
JOSEPH E. DWYER
Executor.
TIRNER OPERA HALL
T. W. HOWARD I ERNEST RTBCHE
Manager. I Treasurer.
For two nights only Tuesday extra mati-
new. The most important amusement event of
.the season. Momlav ami Tuesday. Tuesday
matinee.
JANUARY 15 16
MARIEGEISTINGER
The greatest living artiste supported by a
powerful entitle o|wra coni|>aiiy of 10U artists.
A magnificent chorus. A grand orchestra. G.
Amberg. Manager.
Monday. January 15 DONNA JUANITA
comic opera in three acts by Sup)>e.
Tuesday January 1« Matinee at 2 o’clock p.
m. HtHVAtU’IO
Tuesday at 8 p. in. last appearance of the
great artiste in Uhmkmi’s greatest success.
.Introducing tin- great Itarrieade scene the
famous Ladv V iolmisUi. In the third act of
thia opera Mme. Geislinger appears in the most
elegant costumes ever seen in this city in addi-
tion to which .Mme. Geislinger wears diamonds
valued at SItVMNN. New and brilliant costumes
splendid misi'en-scene the largest and most
complete comic opera company in. America.
Scale of prices : Paruuette $2.U>; rear raised
seats not reserved $1.50; gallery sl.uu. No
extra charge for reserving.
Matinee prices : Parquette $l.l H; gallery 50
cents.
Sale of seats will commence Thursday Jan-
uarv llth. at Riselie's. I H-tf
TIRNER OPERA HALL
T. W. HOWARD I ERNEST RIBCHE
.Manager. | Treasurer.
Three Nighi* Only—Friday Saturday Sunday
JANUARY 12 13 14
Engagement of the Popular Voting Comedian
MR. ROLAND REED
Formerly of Bidwell's Stock Company in
Fred .Marsden’s latest and best comedy
CH EEK !
Realistictwenerv showing a U-autlful illu-
minated scene of i he Fifth Avenue hotel Hoff-
mann House the Worth Monument the Lilier-
t v Tori'll and Madison Square under the
electric light. Mr. Roland Rei-d also introduces
select ions trom the new eiauic opi-ras and the
latest songs and medleys of Harrigan A Hart's
jMipular music.
Crowded houses and delighted audiences
The Evening Light.
A HIGH SCHOOL ROW.
Differences Between Prof. Halbedl the
Principal undone of the Lady Teachers
A Statement by the Superintendent Re-
markable for its Construction.
Prof. Hulbedl. principal of the High school
and Miss Lizzie Matthews one of the teachers
have a grievance. Miss Matthews was requested
yesterday to ventilate it through the columns
of the Light tint she preferred to be silent.
Prof. Halbedl was willing to talk. So was
Prof. Rote the public school superintendent.
While Prof. Halbedl refreshed Prof. Rote's
memory Prof. Rote told the appended story
thus:
“Since the beginning of the school year and
continuing for two months the preparatory
class recited a lesson in English analysis before
Miss Matthews in the principal or audience
room but for reasons which Miss Matthews
deemed for the welfare of the class”—
“O no" interjected Prof. Halbedl “that’s
wrong. It was not for the welfare of the class
but for her own welfare; she said she could
manage better."
"For the welfare of the class" continued Prof
Rote “she told Prof. Halbedl she wanted to
move the class to lx- heard hereafter in the re-
citation room proper. He yielded to her re-
vuest. but at the same time he hail misgivings
as to an improvement of the conditions which
caused her to remove it. After she heard the
class in this recitation room for several weeks
Prof. Halbedl concluded that the order and the
discipline of the class had not been improved
by the removal but on the contrary he
DEEMED IT WORSE
since the children were seated close together
on long benches whilst in the larger room they
would be more comfortably seated having
desks of the capacity of two pupils.
“Vou see this is the preparatory class num-
Ix'ring thirty pupils. To move said
class in the views of Prof. Halbedl
back and forth consumed considerable time
their sitting place being in the audience room.
Prof. Halliedl seeing this state of affairs wrote
Miss Mathews a note revoking the change and
requesting h»r to have recitations in the
audience room. The next act I believe was
that Miss Matthews sent word she would not
comply." •
Here Halbedl remarked "In consequence of
which I referred the matter to Prof. Rote.”
“There's a previous act to that." said Prof.
Rote. “At the hour for the change of the class
in question Prof. Halbedl did not send in to the
recitation room said class but took liis own
class being a small one to lie heard in the reci-
tation room and meeting Miss Matthews in
the recitation room told her to submit ut
present and complain hereafter her class wait-
ing for her she being alone. She said that she
would refer the matter for adjudication to the
superintendent and would act accordingly but
Professor Halbedl remarked tlint as he was
principal of the high school it was her duty to
regard his disposition of the classes and then if
she felt aggrieved
SHE COULD APPEAL.
Nobody being in the audience room there
was need of some one's presence and Professor
Halbedl returned to the principal room leav-
ing the class in the recitation room. He took
charge of her class which is the larger and
the —”
“She refused to take charge of the class"
said Professor Halbedl.
“Yes” resumed Professor Rote "and con-
tinued to do so since last Thursday a week ago.
The mat ter was referred to me by Professor
Halbedl upon which and hearing the state-
ment of the facts I wrote a note
in which I said that as Professor Halbedl was
principal and sheassistunl that the immediate
disposition of the class was in his charge and
that she would therefore direct herself accord-
ingly. But the matter remained as at first in
regard to the question still remaining in sus-
penae. which no doubt will lx' adjudicated tiy
the board."
"Some Oi the pupils say
vol' ANU MISS MATTHEWS QrAKKELED
about putting down windows and accused each
other of being unfitted for the position of
teacher" said a visitor to Prof. Halbedl.
"I never said she was untit to lx* a teacher"
«aid Prof. Halbedl in gutturalbroken English
difficult to understand. "But." he continued
a spiteful glitter in his little eyes “the pupils
might have said what they thought."
“O. they might 't Then pray tell m» sir
what they said <>f you.”
"I never heard them say anything” said the
professor nervously shaking his foot. "I see
how the statement about the window could
have arisen" he added. “The first day I went
to her room the heat was so intense I raised the
window for a moment. After I left she might
lune put It down for she suffers physically
IT
•‘Suffers physically how strange!"
“And heats the stove very hot: heats it uii-
naturully when It is not felt by other per-
sons."
“What is not felt ?”
"The colil."
"Ami the stove is heated unnaturally ; what
kind of a nature lias the stove?"
"Well 1 mean regarding constitutions."
Prof. Habedl reeives $lOO a month and Miss
Matthews $55. Prof. Ilallxsil was once a
GERMAN CATHOLIC PHIEST
but abandoned the ministry to marry was pat-
ronized by Judge Siemering and other rabid
free-thinkers and then made a public
school teacher. Miss Matthews Isasmall. viva-
cious but modest-hxiking lady. Her speech is
correct and of course more intelligible than
that of the high school ex-priest professor
with a German accent Professor Newcomb
when here some time ago examined Professor
Hallxdl and said he knew next to nothing of
mathematics.
Prof -ssor Rote while talking was very care-
ful in constructing his sentences. And the re-
sult ! It's before you.
The school board of the council intended to
investigate the subject yesterday but two ot
the members Messrs. Degener aiid Shiner did
not go to the meeting place mid Messrs. Cald-
well and Copeland and Mayor French decided
on a postponement.
Miss Matthews had a.i interview with Mayor
French this morning. The interview was long
and rather exciting The result of it the
Light was unable to learn.
The district court this morning proceeded
with the effort to secure a Jury in the Ben
Thompson case and finally succeeded in com-
pleting the panel. The following is tile names
of the Jurors chosen :
Roas Neighlxirs T. C. Riue H. Tatum. W. B.
Beck Frank Goll Michael Franger. Jolin Cres-
well John Terrill G. W. MaltzbergiT James
B. Mann. J. E. Campbell J. A. Woolsey
The court adjourned until Monday morning
leaving the Jury in the charge of the sheriff.
Of 233 East Houston street are prepared to do
Hll kinds of plain and ornament*! painting
strict attention to business is tbdr motto and
they will promptly attend to all calls. 1-1-m-Jm
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS SA TUR DA Y JANUARY 13 1883.
The Ben Thompson Case.
Page ami Herweek
NOT YET DETERMINED.
But Mr. Copelaud will Probably Contest
Mayor French's Election.
Mr. Copeland has not yet determined to con-
test the election of Mayor Frenet but his
friends insist that he bus good grounds for do-
ing so. These grounds are three in number:
First Every ticket with French’s name on
it was illegal becausethe words "City Election"
were printed on it contrary to the law which
liermits only of the printing of the names of
the candidates mid the offices to be filled.
Second- Bribery was practiced.
Third Illegal votes were east and persons
entitled to votes were denied the privilege of
voting.
Mr. Co|>eland’s friends claim that they have
conclusive evidence of the dishonesty of their
opponents.
One result of the election will be the bring-
ing of a libel suit by Mr. Copeland against the
Express because of charges pertaining to an
administration of an estate. Mr. Copeland has
engaged Mr. Russ Howard and State Attorney
J. H. Me Leary to prosecute the suit.
MARIE GEISTINGEK.
History of the Prima Donna to Appear
Next Week.
From the Freie Presee.
It is probably not unacceptable to our renders
to learn somewhat more alxiut the great
artiste who is expected here in a few days and
who is the worship|>ed jx't of the German thea-
tre-public on both sides of the ocean.
Marie Geistiuger is a child of the stage. Her
parents were prominent memlx-rs of the 1m-
IxTial Theatre ut St. Petersburg!) and she had
1 bus the best chances as a child to lx- at home
near the foot-lights. Later when her parents
had retired to Gratz she made her. real debut
and soon became us “Marlnd’l” in children's
roles “the great Geislinger." At the early age
of fourteen she becauiemi orphan. DeiK-ndent
upon her own exertions she soon found that a
theatrical career is a road of thorns in spite of
talent.
From Gratz she went to .Munich and soon
after to the “Friedrich Wilhelm" theatre at
Berlin where she made a successful soubrette.
A year later the genial Director Maurice of thv
Hamburg Stadt theatre succeeded in engaging
her for that establishment which was at thai
time the first and greutest nursery for talent
and here she received the first lessons in the
highest and noblest art. Here she performed
with Frederike Grossmann in the same blanch
which since tiie lai ter was a much older mem-
ber made it very disagreeable to Geistiuger
mid an obstacle in her ambitious aims. Owing
to this she accepted the offer from Director
Witte of Riga under very favorable condi-
tions and here it was where she had full scope
to develop her manifold qualities. After this
engagement which she herself calls her ap-
prenticeship she went to the Victoria theatre
at Berlin. Her fame dates from 1865 when the
director of the "Theater an dor Wien” was
looking for u tit successor to Josephine
Gallmeyer saw Miss Geislinger at Ber-
lin and engaged her for his theatre.
Her first role was “The Beautiful Helena”
of which she made a grand success such us was
never liefore recorded in the annals of Vienna.
The following four years brought many such
results and when at this time Director Stramp-
|x-r retired a rich man and left the manage-
ment of the theatre in the able bunds of Max-
imilian Steiner this Gurblemmi in order not to
lose .Miss Gcstinger offen d her a partnership
in the concern.
From this time on her career as a finished
prima donna is known all over Ilie world. All
journals of Austria and Germany have ac-
knowledged her artistic skill no matter in what
opera she upixmred ; and as this lame she lias
retained her performances will be uppreciuted
heii' in Man Antonio.
Two Cities Exchange Greetings.
Colonel Peirce president of the Sunset rail-
way mid party passeu through the city this
morning on their way to Houston from the
Pecos river where they formally connected
the tracks of the Sunset and the Southern
Pacific railways.
Yesterday afternoon the mayor of San Anto-
nio received the appending communication
from the mayor of El Paso:
Ei. Paso Texas January 12 1883.
The citizens of El Paso Texas through the
mayor and council to the mayor and people
of San Antonio greeting :
Tliis is the day we have so long looked for-
ward to when by the driving of a silver spike
i he ends of the G. H. A S. A. railroad are united
thereby establishing ini I road communication
between San Antonio mid El Paso lajt us now
say farewell to the old wagon train and stage
coach times ami let us run by rail from both
ends to a general protqierity.
Joseph Magoffin Mayor.
He replied thus :
Honorable Joseph Magoffin Mayor of El Paso:
On behalf of the citizens of San Antonio 1
return your greeting. May mutual interests
quickened and eneiui 'ged by commercial
intercourse strengthened by the friendship of
"Auld Lang Syne” bind us yet closer thun the
iron bunds which huve this day united us.
J. H. French Mayor.
MOTEN OF THE HAY.
Alamo phizu bus been surveyed by the citv
engineer preparatory to being paved.
Application for a removal of minority disa-
bilities has been made by Misses Ella and Isa-
dore Zork.
The new court house will be furnished under
tiie superi ision of county eomiiiissioners Hoef-
ling and Braden
Justice Adam yesterday performed the mar-
riage ceremony tor Mr. Jolin Harrington and
Miss Maria Smith Mr. T. M. Little and Miss
Nancy Noonan.
An interesting meeting of the San Antonio
Bitde Society was held in the Flores street
Presbyterian church this morning President
J. W. Neil in the chair.
Mrs. Sarah E. Haven has withdrawn the suit
for divorce she tiled against her husband Hen-
ry L. Haven. The two have decided to try
matrimony together again.
A. M. Ward a well known International rail-
way conductor died of consumption yesterday.
He came here from New York several years
ago for the benefit of his health.
The “Torah" or five txxiks of Moses held as
sacred by the Hebrews and preserved as a heir-
lixnn was presented to Temple Beth El last
evening by Mrs. Benedict Schwan to commem-
orate uer deceased hualmnd. Special music
was snug by the choir to which. Mme. Rosetti-
Gerhardt and Miss Marie laicostv had been
added.
Incandescent Light.
The Electric Light company have received a
ma<:lilne and a nuinlxir of lamps
and had the lamps burning. These lamps are
simply a little ball ot glasa about as large as a
man’s fist in which is a carbon and wire. These
lumps last fouror five months and are then re-
newed costing only about fifty cents each.
The incandescent light is a small light several
times brighter than a gas Jet. but intended to
supplant gas: it is a beautiful light and must
take tie place of gas.
TEA-TABLE GOSSIP.
Tid-Blt* of Society and Other News Dished
Up in a Palatable .Manner.
What the “Man About Town” Saw aud
Heard lately.
With numerous weddings the theatre and
the reception by the San Antonio club the
fashionables have lx*en quite gay lately. At
the club rixims I am told most all the elite of
the city could Imj seen and some of the cos-
tumes worn by the Indies were quite charming.
I did not attend the reception though 1 had in-
tended to ami bad gotten an old Parisian claw-
hammer from the bottom of a trunk of rather
modest dimensions for the express purpose of
presenting a suitable apix’itrunce if that were
IHissible. iwent instead shame to me for iny
plebian tastes tea little gat lieiing of actors
and Bohemians in a dn-ssing room at Turner
hull. lum not sun* however thut 1 did not
enjoy myself better than I would had J smirked
and bowed amongst the ultra fashionables at
the club rooms.
* • *
The newspaper! did not do justice to the petit
souper at Turner hull. It was arranged by
Manager Tom Rowan- as a mark of the esteem
in which he held Lamliert and Richardson’s
dramatic coinjianyi and was very pleasing to all
present. After thiqperfornuince the actors and
ihe actresses trooped into a little room where
Mr. Howard and a few others were awaiting
them. Some of the ladies were comely and in-
teresting with fresh faces and genteel attire.
They all wn"»*d Mr. Howard to make a x;x-ech
but 'he shirked that task and grimacing per-
formed in the role of bottle-opener. It was
amusing to sei? the confusion and heartiie chat-
ter. Actresses were evidently no exception to
their sex. One voluptuous creature en-
tertained four gentlemen while giving
attention to a sandwicli and a glass ot
wine. Presently aroscasylph looking as happy
as a child with her first doll. Ist sylphide.
thought I going to make a humorous recita-
tion. execute a pas or show us les temps de
pointes in tier boots. But no she merely re-
quested more horse-radish and then liegan
chatting cheerily again I lingered some
time for such assemblages have a peculiar
charm for me. As I quitted the room. Miss
Ida May Blake was executing what a maitre de
liallet would call the entrenchats quat re in pur-
suit of a roll and showing by accident as neat-
ly turned an ankle as I ever saw.
L’Hoinnie qui Hit must have had Rufe
Heatherly in his mind when lie wrote some of
Ills funny stories. Rufe is always smiling and
his smile he is always ready to break for a
laugh. No wonder that the Hotel Maverick is
such a popular resort.
A story is being told alxiut City Marshal
Shardein. Ido not vouch for its authenticity
in fact I do not believe it—liut tell it as it
wastohl to me.
At the |H>lice station a curious visitor pointed
tof'aptain Shardein's eune and a copy of Coke
on Evidence. “You have all the law here"
said he
“Yes” replied tiie captain "that's < 'oke and
that's my cane mid there's mure law in an
inch of my cane than in the whole law book.”
• • *
Ata bmiquel given to Mr. Harry Kay-
Hodges' friends by that gentleman a few nights
since I was struck by the general abstinence
from intoxicating liquor. Though some forty
liersous wen' present I noticed but seven
who drank wine and D< an Richardson and
myself both Americans vv ere of the number.
Whatever else may be said of the English in
San Antonio ihey as a rule may be credited
with a wholesome dread of the effects of “a
drop too much."
It seems to me then' has lieeu more talk than
was necessary about the arrest of the one-
leggeil Tennessee defaulter. So many untrue
rumors regarding his cUpture are seldom heard
on one subject. One pa|x-r had him arrested
by one man. another pa|x a r by another no two
agreeing. The story of his capture by un un-
armed unaided Pullman conductor who pre-
tended that the rampant rangers were al his
back was the most sensational of all. For pure
unadulterated lying commend me to the au-
thor of tlint story.
Regarding Polk a lady said to me the other
<lay "I wonder what the detectives and news-
paper reporters would do if a real live two-
legged defaulter should lx- captured. Don’t
you tbiuk they would go
Down by the old mill bridge is as pretty a
bit of scenery as one can find anywhere: The
picturesque mill the dam over which the
water surges and splashes forming eddies and
dashing against the banks and the trees lie-
yond shading the stream as it glides slowly by
and softly touches the flowering plants that
bend low as it murmurs while receiving their
gentle caresses. On imxmliglit nights the
bridge is a favorite resort for lovers. There
eyes meet ey es. A rose falls from a slender
hand. The moonlight shines a warmer glow on
cheek and throat. Kismet! It is over. But
how fair ail is when the moon gleams and the
waves give pictures in breaking lilies of light
and shadow. How fair but how transient.
Society is “all torn up" over the question
whether costumes en regie shall be worn at the
opera or nut. A few young men who Imve no
dress-coats (and 1 know many who have uot who
move in the best circles) complain that if full
dress be requisite they will haw thrown away
the money they have sixait for tickets. But all
mav rest easy for I haveitfrotn goixlauthority
that a sack coat will lx- ax admissable as any
ot her.
I saw Mr. Richard King at the Menger hotel
the oilier day and lie sis-med rather care-worn.
Doubtless the attention one must give to thou-
sand acres of land and vast herds of cattle is
not so pleasant as pauvre diables think. His
form is bent and though in midilleagv bis hair
is fast turning gray. I wonder what “six-iety"
would have thought hail they seen Mr. King
as I saw him spill his milk and coffee scatter
crumbs all around bis plate and shove a knife
down his throat in a dextrous way that would
have made a Chinese juggler green with
jealousy.
Having unaiieeeMfuliy endeavored for many
i years to ascertain tiie identity of the manto
whom tiie news|iapers rn'cnsicnally refer as a
' reader of the Congressional Record I was alxiut
I to abandon the task when Mr. Newcomb the
' senior editor of the Light called my attention
to an old negro who v isited his office regularly
to get that journal of dry and profitless infor-
mation Now. thought I. I have found a real
philosopher oin- who though dark of color
attends to the utterances of tiie aiauts of the
i
IO Cents a Week
forum who sliu|x? our destiny; u man who. no
doubt is able to promulgate logical opinions on
the topics most intimately connected withlhe
welfare of the people. "Tell me sir" said I
"do you derive pleasure from these papers
“ No sail.” returned the ebon-hued sage
“but I spose Missy ‘Melia do; she suvs dev's
better'll de (jght ferde bottom fer her bustle.”
And so my dream was dissipated. It like the
bustle was naught but a fiction founded on
fact.
The management of the Alamo Music house
are making commendable efforts toward lite
musical culture of the middle class and though
their motives may not lx- entirely free from a
regard to pecuniary profit they undoubtedly
tend toward a higher appreciation of music
and should therefon- meet with encourage-
ment. Some of their soirees musieale have
lxx?n very pleasing.
* * *
While talking with Mr. Claudon yesterday. I
called him Colonel when he asked “Why
Colonel ?"
“ O” said I “everylwxly in Texas lias a title
and 1 don't can* to have a duel on my hands for
calling a colonel major or captain."
“WelL" he returned “I was once called
colonel in Houston but I went awav and after
returning 1 was desiwmitn) captain; then I
Joined the Bohemian club and tus newspapers
styled me’Old CTuudon.' ” for titles.
Here is a literal copy of an adv ertisement I
saw in a New Orleans paper: " Wanted twen-
ty seamstresses in ehemisett- s to work on the
machine.’' Did the advertiser think seam-
stresses did not wear chemisettes ?
* * *
Do my guests at the tea-table think that sil-
ver spikes are left in the wixxi they an- driven
into when the ceremony of connecting two
railways or completing one isobserv ed ? If so.
tbeir mind should lx* disabused of the idea.
Silver is too precious to be thus thrown away.
After the railway president hips the silver spike
with his gold hammer and leads his friends
toward the champagne baskets i.i his luxurious
private coach the hammer aud the spike are re-
moved. They will Ixith lx- used again when a
similar ceremony occurs.
We have some queer characters in San Anto-
nio and one of them is Mr. T. H. Howard tiie
writer of articles on spiritualism over the in-
itials T. H. H. Mr. Howard is an old journalist
having Ix'en connected with newspapers twenty
years or more and some of his writing Iwai a
evidence of a once original and prolific imagi-
nation. But now alas! his mind like his body
is fast decaying and the children of his bruin
lire only such as eould lx? borne by one not far
from the v alley of the shadow of death. At all
limes day and night lie labors under the
iiallueination that lie is surrounded by evil
spirits striving to hurl him into the abyss of in-
> unity bv good spirits ever holding his mind
intact. By night the spirits show themselves
in dreams from which the sufferer awakens
Ixxlewed with perspiration trembling with
fear his nerves shaken by a horrible tumult of
ihought. By day the old man converses with
these spirits arguing with them ap|>ealing to
them sometimes ehiding them us he would a
wayward child. A heart-rending spectacle be
presents as he mutters Incoherently while tot
terlng along the streets his form bent low his
long white hair flowing over his stooped
shoulders his eyes gleaming with u light other
lhan that of this world with thut light ot
prescience which ■ we are told
comes to some of the chosen ones
touched by the scythe of the grlmglcancr. Mr.
Howard is ever contemplating suicide but
admits Ills want of courage to nerve his bund
He has nothing to live for his feeble frame is
constantly wracked with pain but thought ot'
the inscrutable hereafter the unknown des-
tiny which awaits him deters him from ending
iiis life. His memory is perfect of events which
occurred in his youth but is void of all inci-
dents of his later life.
Dear public 1 ho|x- that the dish of gossip I
have set before you will lx- relished. If it be
then oblige me by sending to me at the Light
■ iffiee such niorceaux as you may think will lie
suitable for this column and palatable to
Your bumble servant.
The Man A bout Town.
For Sale.
The two-story hard-rock building compris-
ing Nos. and 3111. on Market street. For
particulars apply nt 21<l Market street.
12-21-1111 PRHBIIIA Hiiotiif.hs.
MISCELLANEOI N TELEGRAPH NEWS.
Hungary.
Berlin January 12.—Twelve German
square miles of territory are submerged at
Raab Hungary.
England
London January 12. —The British ship
Pride of the Octan from Hamburg for New
York is supposed to have been lost off Har-
wich as a boat and other wreckage evidently
belonging to that vessel are washed ashore.
Germany.
BERLIN January 12. —Emperor William at
his own instance has increased the contribu-
tion from the imperial fund toward the relief
of the distressed by the floods. The Em-
peror said in making the increase that it was
intolerable to him to think of the hundreds
who were shivering from cold and hunger
while he was sitting in his warm 100 m.
Paris January 12. —A boat has been found
off the harbor of Cette containing the dead
bodies of four persons belonging to a French
coasting steamer which is believed to have
foundered in a storh. There were twenty-two
persons on board.
The remains of Gambetta were removed
this morning from Pere l.a Chaise cemetery.
Very few persons were present and nodemon-
stration was made. A special train with the
body started for Nice at 9 o'clock. Several
persons friends of the deceased accompanied
the remains which will reach Nice early to-
morrow.
There is to be a new five-cent nickel piece
It will be the same as the present nickel in
weight but the diameter will be increased one
milimetre and the thicknc-ss will be propor-
tionately decreased. On one side is a classic
head of liberty with the date ol issue; on the
I other side is a wreath of corn and cotton in-
. closing the Roman numeral etc. On the
. edges are the inscriptions “United Slates of X
America’’ and “E. Pluribus I nnin.” The
Philadelphia mint has been order d to begin
coining these pieces at once.
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