Evening Light, The (Newspaper) - October 20, 1882, San Antonio, Texas ght Vol II 233 SAN ANTONIO TEXAS FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 1882 THE pions are running their wild caV ern Texas saying -a great deal s them with some data rig s -AT- FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING In Job lots or at retail at extremely low AT AND Oost Vine assortment of and JEANS ut lowest figures Also a BEAUTIFUL lot of French Silks At prices Unit will astonish the ladies Delaines Brocaded Dress Goods Cheaper than AT COST Grocery Department Will be kept up to its FULL standard with the Constantly on Hand Lot on Commerce street and house on Main plaza also two residences for sale Apply to JOSEPH E DWYER Executor TURNER HALL T W Howard Lessee and Treasurer HANCOCK MAKKS HIS WILL This is the last campaign I shall make of a political Hancock at Austin General Hancock sees his defeat and it as philosophically as he fact he has become accustomed to defeat of late years but this defeat buries him beyond resurrection in his anxiety to secure political honors he encompassed the defeat of Columbus Upson he then threw himself upon a democratic for is encountered by an opponent whose high integrity and si worth reaches above the political prejudices engendered against him and now with defeat staring him in the face John makes his political will He continues And the last I shall have to speak upon political subjects There are many young men here and while I do not say that I can instruct them or that I am able to inculcate the trines they require yet I will hope to give them a line of argument aod investigation that will enable them to arrive at correct sions If the young men of Texas want to learn of the political history of their country there are text books from which they can cure reliable information let them seek at the fountain head and not from a second hand shop such as Hancock keeps Hancuck might appropriately have exhibited himself as a frightful example to the young men but as a doctor of politics he is a failure He should have told the young men to look at him and to avoid ness to shun demagoguery to spurn dishonor that he furnished the frightful example of a man who had attained wealth had a bright intellect and finally been cast down under the feet of the people as unworthy of their confidence Rich but despised TUB PUNCH Such is the title of the wittiest campaign paper ia the state it is published at San Diego Mr B W Johnson editor The U P is devoted to the interests of the wool growers of We take a few samples from the B P Colonel Finlay wants to go to congress to help purify the political atmosphere His ar- gument is that it takes a thief to catch a thief Col Finlay rejoices in the name of the tall Sycamore ol the west Well his height would certainly warrant that little Down in this wool growing region we look at things n Prayer OF SNOW CITY October 6 1882 Editor EVENING t A short time ago a was held in this vicinity and among the converts was a very wicked sheepman After a time the re- cent convert wat called on to pray in public Devoutly he commenced saying Great and ceased Good Lord said he commencing again but he could get no farther than Good Lord or Great and an- other sheepman whispered to a I'll bet the Lord will be tickled to death when he hears that prayer And so are the men tickled to death when they hear the bourbon TWO NIGHTS MONDAY TUESDAY First appearance at the Star Combination COMEDY FROM NEW YORK Of talented mid well known organized for the production of ft brilliant toire or standard The Comedian MR T J HERNDON and the accomplished actress MISS CLARA GOLDSBY Supported by a powerful stock company will Monday October in Joseph Hon's Legendary Drama Rip Van Winkle Tuesday in Lester live net drums 3D Seats secured at without extra GEO E CADDEN Manager Watches Jewelry and Diamonds 1 have just returned from the east whore I made selections of the finest roods in my line over offered in and have an immense now on display I would especially cail attention to iny nne diamonds which embrace the richest and latest design and goods unsurpassed All the richest and latest designs Prices nre low and goods unsurpassed All the latest lies Fn jewelry can be seen at my My department contains everything in that line all first-class and standard be pleased to have you call and examine my stock and can make It profitable for you It 285 Commerce street opposite S Deutech Now Saloon I tako pleasure to inform my anil the that I hayo purchased the on street next door to Oco grocery store and formerly T have added a full and complete stock of niie Imported and wines liquors and to the outfit and guests will find only the purest of thing at my establishment A general tion extended and a liberal ed Lunch I have the to announce and tho theatre public the A supply of with a eye and although length of staple is to be greatly desired still it is the wool with the best body and least shrinkage that is in demand Wool growers can apply the comparison Lubbock came down to administer yarb tea to Finlay as a nurse Lubbock is not a success George's malady is tariff and he needs will get it November next Who is the most beggarly the mendicant that puts up his capital on a bourbon or the bourbon that is open to the of the Finlay can't bulldoze the sheepmen like he did the razor of the it wont work you know Finlay promises more deep water on the Texas bars than man in or out of congress His improvement on the bars didn't hold water says Hancock and Finlay are self-made men No wonder they want to let foreign manufacturers in free the use of dy in Europe and its introduction in this country would not make look so Military Or a era DEPARTMENT OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO 18 1882 Special Orders No 114 The commanding officer post of San nio will turn over Private Edward Van Marter an alleged deserter from troop C 8th cavalry to the officer under paragraph V special orders No 113 current from these headquarters who will conduct him to Fort Clark Texas and deliver him to officer thereat The department will furnish the necessary transportation by rail and the subsistence department commutation ol rations at the of per diem it being to carry cooked rations In connection with paragraph VI special ill current series from these headquarters Second Lieutenant L E bree signal corps U is authorized before returning to these headquarters from El Paso Texas to proceed to Fort Davis Texas connected signal service The travel is necessary for the public vice By Brigadier General Augur COLON AUGUR First Liet A D C dates try to explain their position on tion The phraseology of their platform is slightly changed but its meaning is the same for revenue and this means destruction of the sheep interest in Texas We have a tariff for revenue only candidate in this representative district but he will tainly be pickled down in old salt river by the independent A heavy rain fell last night The grass on account of wet weather is full of sap and should a frost fall great age will result Several thousand sheep haVe recently been driven to this section from below Wanted A reliable man to do general work dence in city Apply No 13 Fronch Nette vs In Justice Shields court this morning August Nette brought ft forcible entry and de- tainer suit against W Hiener city to regain possession of the tenement on Crockett street used by Mr Hiener as his office The case was heard before a jury who returned a verdict for the plaintiff and ordered restitution of the premises Arrivals ut the Monger Hotel George PfeufFer New J F rey City Miss F I Lee J A De- wees T H Pierce Galveston E A White Crockett county Mike Houston Pecos ty S A Brown Boston H C Cohen New Orleans J C Boykin Portland Ala E jamin Eminence Ky Mrs Jeff Gibbs and child Miss Gibbs Castroville C W Brown Kyle F E Austin Byron von Raub Carl F Schwabe Leonard Lodge Don los Ranch O II Pegues and wife Longview C D Palmer A T S F R R Dallas R H Boalner J J Foster Staunton Va He ill Transfers Michael J McMahon of Apache county Arizona territory to Amanda Dignowity lots I 2 3 4 9 it 12 ij 14 in block No 26 original city lot No 3 range 2 district 2 about miles from Main plaza tion Dr Romanus Gross and Philomena his wife of Medina county to the Galveston Harrisburg San Antonio railway two strips of land described in county records vol S pages consideration Henry Fuhmeister to his wife Caroline Schulz lot 5 jn block 6 in the eastern part of San and love and affection Cold Winters In Fust The following statistics of the good old ters are curious In 401 the black sea was entirely frozen over In 768 not only the Black Sea but the Straits of the Dardanelles were frozen over the snow in some places rose fifty feet high In 822 the great rivers of Europe the Danube and Elbe etc were so hard frozen as to bear heavy wagons for a month In 860 the Adriatic was frozen In 991 everything was frozen the crops totally failed and famine and pestilence closed the yea In 1067 the most of the travelers in were fro to death on roads In 1133 the Po was frozen from Cremona to the the wine casks were burst and even the trees split by the action of the frost with immense noise In 1236 the Danube was frozen to the tom and remained long in that state In crops wholly failed in Germany wheat which some years before sold in state senate the stopped at a point where to have an interest in Texas while deprived road had to sacrifice satisfy the demands o The general law railroad lands provides that shall locate only every alternate all the expense of surveying its own lands and the alternate in lained by the state land at 6 s the quarter rose to fi In 1039 the International however that company the crops failed in Scotland and a ine ensued that the poor were reduced to feed on grass and many perished miserably in the fields The successive winters of were uncommonly severe It once snowed forty days without interruption In 1468 the wine distributed to the Flanders was cut with hatchets In 1684 the winter was excessively cold Most of the hollies were killed Coaches drove along the Thames the ice of which was eleven inches thick In 1709 occurred the cold winter The frosts penetrated three yards into the ground In 1715 booths were erected and fairs held on the Thames Hn 17.44 and 1745 the strongest ale in England exposed to the air was covered in less than fifteen minutes with ice an eighth of an inch thick In 1809 and again in 1812 the winters were remarkably cold In 1814 there was a fair on the frozen Thames to my that 1 Kansas will raise bushels of com this year A Golden Hon Edward and his good wife celebrate anniversary of married life to-day at their residence on Avenue C Mr Degener was born October 1809 at Braunschweig Germany Mrs Marie Degener nee Baroness was bom at Braunschweig November 1813 Mr D was vice-president of the provisional at Frankfort in 1848 he came to the United States in 1849 returned brought back his family in 1851 and moved to Kendall county where they lived and farmed until 1862 when Mr D moved to San Antonio i In 1869 Mr D was elected to the U S congress as representative from this district and served the people with satisfaction Mr D has been engaged in business in our city ever since the war and served in our municipal age has taken him somewhat nut of the busy whirl of public life but he is still hearty good for many more years of life The will take place this but all friends are expected SENATOR SHERMAN VISITS FROM THS Denison October Smith a pupil in the public school about nine years old while at play on the school grounds was pushed down by a playmate and in her fall broke her forearm and dislocated her elbow Senator John Sherman of Ohio has arrived from the north and is stopping at the Adams hotel He had a formal to-night re- personal and political friends The Chickasaw legislature adjourned They passed a resolution mending the establishment of a branch of the United States court at Gainesville in this state Mr Watterson the genial Pirate King of poker players in his paper of Monday last Ur Hedges who held one of the winning hands in that poker game played at Newburg N Y some time ago is visiting Lexington Jf the Doctor is ing lor it he can find a game of poker where in the Bluegrass which will make him think that isn't a circumstance When one of Joe Blackburn's constituents shifts his and remarks I'll go you my hull farm the man with and four acres had better pass out The regular social game around Lexington is a 2 14 trotting horse calls 300 acres of cultivated land ane no limit Now we have heard some of Mr i1 defenders say these lands belonged the eastern portion state as Texas and therefore it made officials of those counties where grabs have been made of the truth sertion or the people who have to pay taxes upon their homesteads to support ther county governments whila the fine lands the railroad on every hand taxed and on account of for them unavailable to grant This not only retards the prosperity of these but throws i whole burden of taxation upon by their labar and industry increase the x value of the adjoining untaxed Jands era must raise a certain amount of revenue and the proportion that should upon the the of land must fall upon others That is why the hardship of this contract falls upon the people of western bears at all upon the people of sections of state Tlie San Antonio bar 30.35 thermometer 78 Port Conoho barometer 37 barometer 46 Brownsville Stockton barometer 20.21 I thermometer 34 barometer 39.15 thermometer CO Deuison barometer 30.25 40 barometer thermometer 50 Memphis barometer 30.21 40 Little Rock barometer 49 Platte Nob barometer thermometer 48 Palestine barometer 80.18 thermometer 48 Now Orleans barometer barometer -74 Bismarck barometer 88 Port Eads barometer 08 Elloltt barometer 30.18 38 The bank of England obtained 300 by reckoning in its own favor in ments of transactions involving fractions of pennies N How completely New York city dominates the country financially is indicated by the fact that of 717 private banks in the 16 leading cities of the United States 508 pi them are in that city T j The rice crop of Wilmington N C is ex- I to reach bushels this An oak tree at Ct is believed about the yield f to he from 1000 to 1800 years old It isM The prince of Wales persists in his desire feet m and crowning a hill can be lhat the young princes shall nbt yet take part seen for miles A celebration was held r The Rev Mr Stimson now of Kansas City was the chaplain of the Ninth New York whose colonel liked to take his meat through the puddles One day the lain rode around them so the colonel at the close pf the drill said to the It Chaplain Stimson is afraid to ride through muddy water for fear of soiling his clothes I will carry him across the puddles myself the chaplain said but as the government provides horses I don't see any reason why should on a jackass Free Press Mrs Lizzie Walley convicted a Nashville and sentenced to a term of three years in the penitentiary for alleged cohabitation with Owen Prentiss editor of the World is said to be a niece of the distinguished Con- federate Gen Bragg It is hinted that tiss will be released on bond and that the case against him will never come to a trial The case ol Belle Smoot a negro woman who was ejected from the ladies car on thi Kentucky Central railroad and who sued the company for goes to the supreme court The United States district court dis- missed the case on the ground that it was civil rights case and not in the Court's diction i are now in circulation m Atlanta two petitions to which names are asked and which be pr sen ted to the next legislature of Georgia One petition U but a repetition of the prohibition while the other asks that all saloons and be required to dispense with the blinds which are kept in front of the counter to protect customers from view The fatting of Thanksgiving turkeys has set in Mr Elaine has recovered entirely from his recent illness of Society Now York Mall and A mad dog's bite is not half so- or destructive as the bite or tongue of a said Dr Watkins in his From fifteen to exist in Kentucky twenty coal beds have taken charge of the counter at the Turner Opera Hall seen for 30 miles A celebration was held under its branches on Friday last at which presided An association to the tree was formi i in active public life At the time of the suspension the assets of the Spragues was valued at the at V t Mr Lorillard has just dispatched nine race horses to England In Chicago instead of cleaning stone they paint them About cattle slaughtered in New York city every week Some of solid gold weighing a pound are shown in Denver A New Hampshire mother crazy with over the death ol her boy was found dii open that he was of them pertinent and timely Iri a there ought to be the attention of person a very empty pate for the silly gossip or the which Dr Watkins be unwilling to admit that bii justly called fashionable sins here iri Niw York but there would soon be less term to come more common for people of self-respect to promptly make known their practice of the index of an empty pate The gossips are fools as well as wasps NEWS NOTES AND V Knoxville Tenn scene bloody tragedy on yesterday An bid existed between the Maji nor president of the Some words passed the day before Mabrey to kill Yesterday morning Gen Mabrey appeared bank shot him down then young Mabrey ran up and shot O'Connor and turned and shot young Mabrey all three dying almost in- stantly The Mabreys had just been acquitted of killing Moses and Dan Lurly father and son The affair caused great excitement is strange that men of intelligence act so like brutes The Tennessee apportionment is so out of joint that it is thought a special session of the legislature have to be called to remedy the trouble The Germans of liave resolved to with the democrats inconsequence of of dates to be Betting on horse racing in New York has been decided to: be gambling Paris scientists succeeded in ing a mule with the nnd arc tickled to this great achievement of science Richard K Longfellow of Rutland VU a nephew of the late poet a of the present Freshman class at Harvard
