Evening Light, The (Newspaper) - February 26, 1883, San Antonio, Texas I Vol 32 San Antonio Texas February rv Cents a Week -AT- IT'S FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING In job lots or at at extremely low TO ASHES An In One Could Not Do in The Notorious Burnt to Ground ItH Left A Joyous AT AND Oost Fine assortment of mill TRANS at lowest figures Also lot of French Silks At prices Unit will the Indies Delaines Brocaded Dress Goods Cheaper than anywhere AT COST Grocery Department Will be kept up its FULL standard with the This about J o'clock tlie railroad whistle lit tlie was blown violently indicating Hint n lire was in that district mid f no fire stations sunn took up Almost simultaneously the west portion of the city was with u lurid that a bUr ire was then occurring It was at house of known us kept by notorious The building was of two stories in hiji hi and contained HI engines did not the scene lill nearly mi hour lifter the fire was nnd the supply of writer so meagre efforts to save the building were mid u successful endeavor to prevent the adjacent from tire though they wore liy the intense heat ami considerably damaged The scene lit the drowns The house one mass of blaze which issued from tlie doora and windows The heat was most in- tense and the smoke dense in the extreme All efforts to save anything except n few lor fixtures were futile The girls were excitedly some oL attired In their night clothes others were en- by and rues lent by A commissioner interviewed Miss trude Wudsworth known an one of the Inmates ol the house was nt that time enveloped in an ulster the only she hud beyond lier night from a packman who hud culled round to supply the wants of the girls and to make n big story was Uriel She retired to rest nt p m slept soundly About a in she was by noise and n feeling of heat and of Looking her she Hint lior room was on lire She Jumped out of bud ami to the adjoining room by Sallie the proprietress mill aroused her Where's said in a sleepy way I don't re- but it is room nnd must bn elsewhere sec the went to Miu back door and opened it Then tlie drove Hie lire to the enveloped them Miss got a pitcher of water to pour on gathering was that at the Arbeiter Verin hall last evening where a children's mask ball was in The little ones were in high glee and their joyous ments were suggestive of smiling faces be- hind their masks There were Mother bards little Greeks Knights Indians Clowns Elves and many other tastefully gotten up costumes Among the characters were the two Misses Krempkau as a Colored Servant and Preciosa Miss as a Harlequin Miss Ida Perner as The ter of the Regiment Tulius Herman a German Peasant Adolph Colmann and Herman Her wig Little Indians and master Gus Heye a very successful bootblack The hall was full of spectators who enjoyed the scene as much as the little ones A DELUGE OF Jt to So us Scats in Congress aro Turin Unsigned Passes Hands TIIK TOWN Ol A Tarty to Rule a County Sliot Guns Constantly on Hand Lot on Commerce street and house on Main plaza also two residences for sale Apply to JOSEPH E DWYER Executor Special Cm of Evening Tex February 24 1883 tulla is a little town situated on the tional road between Laredo and San Antonio Its population is between five and six hundred It is guarded by the State police Captain crets in command Captain McKinney's com- pany having been relieved are about twenty-five business houses one hundred residences titty tents and a good hotel It also has a commodious lecture room Captain most of the lecturing His principal subject is the Hog Leg If the WASHINGTON C February eral members of Congress really exhibit a marked degree of intelligence upon the sub- ject of tlie tariff and a number are very much interested in the discussion The eral impression is that Carlisle who leads the free trade fight on the Democratic side is really gaining much ground in the ship fight He is courageous aggressive at times always fair and honest ing no issue and omitting all trickery of which he in fact seems all issues lairly and frankly and is admitted by all friends and foes as making a fair manly and able fight for his principles Mr Randall on the other hand takes little part in the discussion and when he does so conducts himself in such a way lhat he cannot command the admiration of either side for he neither avows himself a fr ee trader a or anything else that will gauze his standing in this particular of Kansas by the way is making a good record for himself in this tariff fight TURNER Engagement for Nights Only Thursday Saturday Monday Wednesday the and began While so ensured two other inmates Adams and Kittle out of rooms The girls except Kittle Who saved a pet bird rook nothing with them All into the street Ella Dayton Mamie and Oracle four girl on the upper worn by this time aroused and thov and gentlemen who were the establishment attempted to the stairs but found it a naming mass of lire wont to the windows in their night clothes and were rescued by a ladder placed nt the window Hut for that ladder be- mx there seems but little doubt nil would perished in her story ter raising the alarm I returned to my room and a desk in which was stored the part ol my jewelry This i managed to savo 1 was nearly hy the and night dress the I had to hurry in to the street i have lost all my clothes and considerable not my loss 1 havr 1 3 5 Of the Millions Domm Angela Peralta And lior eel el i rated Italian OPERA Company The operas to bn given and the prices will he announced in n few days Post Restaurant The undersigned have opened the large nnd restaurant opposite the op cin spacio where we will pay attention to iiw large suppers for hulls etc and where will bo pleased to see nil our friends jind attendance and not to bo oni moderate will bo our motto Spring miil Messrs T Joske Sons are now receiving at their store on Alamo street nit line of tents boys and youths ready clothing for and summer Mr Albert loske who is now in New York has tended to selection of goods in person nnd did so to suit this market If yon want n nice suit til n low priee you are re- quested to call on Joske Sons and your selection A A the new spring and summer for the coming senson new styles of Nuns Veiling Tolle du dress linen and cashmere for and all shades of jind plain silks Also a lull linn ol In visible nets nnd n large lot of dies fancy gooda just arrived Our Importations of linons have just been opened umi now ready for inspection An of Interest will the week Indies a real surprise and they should not tail take lie has n rag my and this ulster but I am Mian the rest of them for they have lost all 1 mil so sorry that J did not save my pet bird aud that 1 lost my album which contained OP MY Kill ENDS Miss the LIGHT commissioner learned Lhat GUI lie's story yas correct At three o'clock slm and the house was Tlie loss she said inestimable toiler Inasmuch as slie hud lost She thought that would not cover her ual loss of this about insured with Messrs Smith and All her Jewelry was lost nnd buried in the ruins The have lost everything money clothes and jewelry and aro ally destitute The lire from all commenced in the southern parlor the and there to be little doubt was the work of an The fire commenced under the house -in a place where no lire place won uwd Miss idea is that was motives and says that hut for the timely dis- covery the whole of the inmates would have neon burned to death because oven when saved wete already half suffocated by smoke The girls nre now sheltered in the houses of neighbors ar on the Only the brick chimneys remain The gentlemen who were- at tlie house were town in One clothed in overcoat and a pair of boys will listen to his lectures it will prove beneficial Cotulla is not the robbing and murdering town it is represented The citizens are courteous Mr Tompkins the present sheriff is a very nice gentleman a brave and efficient officer From all accounts LaSalle county has been badly represented It has been bulldozed in the late election for sheriff by men and officers that ought to tect elections l There are two parties in La Salle county One party wants to run it with Slate men and breech-loading shotguns The other party wants to run it in a law-abiding manner They want their sheriff and his deputies State policemen are no more needed in La Salle county than they are in Webb or even not as in Webb for it has scarcely been two weeks since a cold-blooded murder was perpetrated at Webb slation What did the State Police Rode around in the paral gave up the hunt and went back to to sit around the stove in Tucker's ture room Mr J J Burke proprietor of the Purke house is a courteous gentleman and sets a good table Cotulla is a great rendezvous for nimrods The English nobleman and his dogs arc there making war on the quail Stockmen headquarters in this rising little La polle county is one of He of reason and less of best stock counties in our State As for law and order I would just as soon trust self in that county as in the heart of San An- I1 L AT AUSTIN son than ever before and Townshend's sertion the other day that he had surprised the House and country with an ability that he hnd never indicated before in his whole career in Congress was not far from correct McKinley too is in his glory for only in iff does he shine In a long experience here Mr McKinley has never been known to rise to the surface on any subject save the tariff On that ever he is really strong nnd he lias proven a valuable man on the in this fight Tucker too on the Democratic side has stood fairly up beside Carlisle and though he has not shown the or in all cases the fairness of Carlisle he has been second in the contest on lhat side CASES The contests for of Representatives promised just after tion does not materialize and the political Vennor who made these predictions turns out to haye been a Wiggins It was generally believed here soon after the election that there would be at least 50 contests for seats Now the number has dwindled down to a round dozen anct be much less than lhat by the time the next Congress con- venes and the opportunity for contests made In a with the Clerk o the House Mr McPherson to-day your correspondent that the contests ol which lhat gentleman had learned officially and unofficially did not exceed 10 THE Edwin Forrest the greatest actor of the last nnd one of the greatest of any is almost forgotten it seems ness of his mortuary estate is not yet closed There was recently a sale belonging to it in Philadelphia rind we see by a card in the New York Herald signed Catherine Sinclair his divorced wife that she did not attend such sale whatever may be the im- portance of that fact public The great popularity of Forrest has become a matter of tradition read in the journals of ago that when he appeared at the old Broadway New York or indeed at any theatre the entire block close upon the cross streets bolli ways was packed witli people seeking admission but there are few who remember it He was a noble actor and a noble man and when the world seemed to have bestowed upon him everything it had to give friends health fortune and fame there was yet one inexorable demand which God and nature and family Forrest hnd become a great artist and grown lo middle age as a master in depicting human passions but when it came to providing against the dangers of the passion which had seized him he was a child a mere child in the hands of a designing woman should he have the fortune lo be captivated by such was precisely what awaited him He loved with a sincerity as honest and unaffected as his great genius an English girl this Catherine Sinclair What she knew or did of her own nature how far she could or could not have trusted herself in the keeping of a sion if it hud overtaken her is hot a question which comes up here She had never a ticle of affection or of any feeling that re- it for Forrest and she at least knew that He bestowed himself upon her with that great unreserve which him in all he did As a man he was truth itself as a friend the very soul of fidelity I don't think there will be nearly so large a number as was promised in flush of Democratic lie said A good nnd the pile of no site of is still boots rushed meteor through the streets lo the hotel The Acme of From the Kansas City Journal Montana is a cruel State to live in The juBt received over JiOO pice B of dross goods which nro actually worth cents a but to his stoclt so overcrowded he is them yards for 81.00 They arc to sell fast nt such a low price nnd Indies who desire to procure n bargain in these goodr to call before they are nil citizens hung seven desperadoes out in the cold one night last week with the eter minus 60 in the shade and in ing the poor men were found to Over a hundred desperadoes became so angry at this exhibition of cruelty that they left the the next train A Tilings In the City Of of the AUSTIN February road from San Antonio to Austin is in splendid condition It is well ballasted has good steel rails and with its courteous cers stands to-day on a par with any of leading roads in the country Old Sol is out in all his to-day and he fresh balmy air that is wafted from the lills and valleys around Austin is redolent of spring and people move along the avenue with a springing step and elasticity that kens health and vigor Austin has improved wonderfully since my last visit here Beautiful residences dot the hills and valleys which or architecture design and finish would be hard to eclipse anywhere in the South Tlie city is blessed wilh the best water system in the land Steam will be turned on next Monday on machinery that the company have been ing up the with all the late improvements and then the clear sparkling waters of Marble Falls spring will be sent coursing through the mains that are now laid all over the city The wise solons of Texas are busy as night and day and there never was a body in council who arc laboring more devotedly in interest of the public weal many that were promised just after the election have been abandoned Take Peele's district in Indiana at Indianapolis you know young Mr English was promising to contest that biti he has been persuaded not lo do 1 understand There are a good many districts in the same condition There is a list of but 13 contests and it will Now Billiard Messrs Peterson ir the Post Office have Just completed their Hue billiard parlor In connection with opposite The arc two billiards ami one ball all of them of the celebrated Monarch out of thn In connection with this they koop on n full assortment of iho choicest wines ami domestic and imported be pleased to see nil their and do their boot to jo alike Senatorial As the crowning honor long public reer Senator Anthony looks forward to his election to the presidency of the Senate But he has several the most nent being Senator and Senator Allison The latter is a Presidential aspirant he probably thinks that his prospects may be en- hanced by becoming presiding officer of the Senate He is Blaine's favorite O lie Loved Her I A coachman stole from a fellow servant and expended the money so obtained in buying fried oysters arid theatre tickets for the girl he loved While there is re- about the manner of ture it is a little singular thai the person from whom money was stolen and the girl who ate the oysters and used the which that money purchased is one and the same than this present A terrible tragedy enacted at Hempstead in which two citizens of this city were the participants and which the killing of Mr A C Tumey a mail agent on the western branch of the Central road by Lum F Campbell The deceased will be buried from his home to-day Both were married men Tumey was well connected and leaves a host of friends lo mourn his untimely loss Sherrell the red-hot Democratic editor of Titles is perambulating about the city wilh his piccadilly collar Colonel Robert P Crockett the only viving son of the great pioneer Davy Crockett is in the cily He is a citizen of Hood county Hut one other child of the msn survives a daughter in Tennessee probably dwindle down to by the time the next Congress meets Ten of 13 who are maHig the contests for seats already given their opponents on the the returns are Democrats three are Republicans Of course it is difficult to predict the result until the testimony has been filed but it may be said thai the general feelings of the thoughtful Democratic bers of the next House is that their majority is too large and thai it isn't while to strain a point or a conscience either to add to the number PASSING AN UNSIGNED CHECK The Post tells the slory of a remarkable in- stance ol the peculiar oversights that occur in the business world which came to light at the counter of the in the Treasury department a day or two ago Some months ago the disbursing officer of the United States Geological Survey forwarded to one of the attaches of the Survey in a distant Territory a check covering the amount of salary due him Upon the receipt of this check the party to whose favor it was drawn indorsed it and obtained the cash for nearest post trader The check was used by the trader in making his settlements and slowly moved eastward From Chicago it was for- warded to New York and in course of ex- change passed through the and subsequently it was sent to Messrs Riggs Co of this city for collection being drawn upon the United Slates Treasurer here In its travels the check had passed through many hands and the on the as William Leggett a greal man early dead and the late William Cullen Bryant often at- tested while as the husband of the woman sincere and affectionate to their utmost reach ne studied to anticipate her slightest wish and lavished upon her ways to bestow He purchased a farge area on banks of the Hudson most ful in the upon ft a palace of which royalty would be proud and adorned and enriched its art to the full measure of the most ingenious devices which money could procure But the great love of Forrest wanted some return never dreamed that he was the of a cold and heartless cruelty of which only worldly mad with love ol self and the their own caprice are he was quickly awakened heat of Forrest's human not rub against an iceberg and not discovered that it had to rub against We do not years the life itself went He would day be the leading living actor of world if he could have been content not to meet Catherine Sinclair or in her place had the one he ideal of MB passionate dream of love 1 No cardi rooms with Also Mrs S A at U passed back of it represented whose til aggregated many When it was presented in the for payment for the first time in all its it was discovered that the check had not been signed by the disbursing officer who d ew it This was remedied as the of that official was called to i and the amount by the check paid over to Riggs Co The strange feature oi the is such a material defect as the lack of a signature to a check should not have been discovered by some one of the many banking experts through whose hands A Successful Method a Farmer -in Mississippi KYom the Country In past times I was quite a large breeder and a producer of pigs and After trying oats cobs etc I alter thorough leaching for family drying and sifling The large boxes with those ashes ill over and all round being covered If the ashes have not been well the skin will be eaten The find that washing well will hams Occasionally we had a ham disfigured by alkali destroying the skin in For fully 20 years before the war no saltpetre or smoke I used only salt and SAigar to save meat When ready to hang the liams were washed clean then laid on scaffolds of small poles to drain and pended with in the smoke house I preferred strips of a plant like by old folks in my boyhood days row grass The leaves are about two and can be divided into 1A to inch and strong enough to hold up 50 or 75 pounds My smoke house was about 15 feet to the eaves walls of hewed white oak 6 inches thick notched and when seasoned the spaces or cracks filled inside arnd out wilh lime floor was of laths sawed dfinch and about three-quarter The gables were in- closed similarly The hams hung between the shoulders and jowls next and the middlings under -All were dried by the culation of air friend a near General E Lee proposed and did the largest middlings in exchange for our AJAX small breakfast bacon three pounds for one least two ot My only sister in bama cured her meat similarly She had provide for go I fur 70 blacks 1 have put up pf pork and even when selling pigs for breeding I put Irnn pounds per year M
