The Evening Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 66, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1882 Page: 1 of 4
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Vol. 11. No. 66.
Ail Open letter.
It is always a pleasure
to see old friends and
to be in a position to
make new ones. This
we are glad to say
is the case with the
old established house
of A. MORRIS cor-
ner of Commerce and
Yturri streets. Their
spring stock of cloth-
ing Hats Bootsand
Shoes and Gents’
Furnishing Goods
etc. is now nearly
all in and having
been selected with
the greatest care in
New York and Bos-
ton they are enabled
to offer this season
greater inducements
than ever as well in
prices and quality as
in assortment. Par-
ticular attention is re-
quested to their line
of Straw and belt
Hats. By giving
them a call we feel
assured you will
never regret it.
1. MORRIS Commerce Street.
BLIND TOM
Renowned throughout the world as the MUSICAL
PHENOMENON will give
4=o 0 N C E K T B=4
—AT-
mm mi mu
April I3lh I4lb 15th.
Matinee Saturday at 2 p. in.
Admission—Parquetf 75 cents; gallery 50 cents.
Matinee—so cents; Children under 12 years agits.
Reserved seats now on sale at Rische’s Cigai
Store. 4"3
CONCERT and DONATION
nt Casino Hall
Wednesday Evening April 12.
Benefit Mississippi Flood Sufferers.
Assisted by the following will known amateurs.
Prof. G. Katzenberger Mrs. G. Katzenber-
ger Miss Mina Fiank Miss Kate Layer Mrs.
Sim. Hart and Messrs. Murehie Ryder-Tay-
lor Hilgers Leopold Cohen and McAllister.
Tickets for concert and donation 50 cents includ-
ing reserved seats at Hart it Brown’s Main plara
A Go 'll Fann for Sale.
Situated on Mill creek six miles east of
Seguin. Guadalupe county contains 195 acres
—65 in cultivation in the creek bottom; frame
dwelling house and outhouses; tine well be-
sides water in creek—a peach orchard anil
grapery —a vein of coal on land Church and
school house near by. This farm is suitable
for fruit cultivation &c. Neighborhood very
good. For particulars address
J cm vs P. Newcomb
Evening Light Office
tf San Antonio Texs.
Bids for the Carpenter Work on a
two-story hard rock dwelling 41x34 feet on
west side of quarry road are invited up to 12
M. Saturday Sth 1882. Bids should be separ-
ate —one to do the work only and the other
to furnish material and work also. The right
to reject any or all bids is reserved.
4 4 4t Smith.
City Circulation
Larger than any paper published in San Anto-
nio.
Mr. J. Hoffmann has recently purchased
the Mead surveys 640 acres and the Sandies
survey 475 acres on the Calebra creek for
which he paid the sum of $3350. Mr. H.
owns besides the above tracts a large body of
grass land adjacent in all perhaps the finest
body of grass land m.the county.
The Evening Light.
—Sim Hart is working like a beaver to
make his concert a success.
—The furniture for the hotel Maverick is
being received.
—Our city cash balance is a comfortable in-
dication.
—A Hall safe has been placed in the city
marshal’s office.
—A marriage license has been issued for
the union of Louis I’relat and Reba Gregory.
—The annual financial statement of the city
shows a balance on hand March Ist $1 1041.71.
—The appeal of the Light in behalf ol Mrs.
Cunningham has had the desired effects we
are glad to state.
—Horse thieves are about. Two mares
and one horse were stolen from a pasture at
the rear of the Mexican grave yard.
—A most successful play —a powerful cast —
comic songs- anil seats at 50 cents only. Call
early at E. Rische’s.
—A long list of well known ladies and
gentlemen assist Mr. Schmidt in “Mein Leo-
pold” and the play will be well rendered.
— From the way the legislature is starting in
on the railroads we may expect some extensive
excursion is in prospect.
—The Express seems determined to have a
crank at its wheel. “B. D.” having deserted
his post they have secured “C. Vogel sang.”
— Let us go to see “Mein Leopold” and
Laugh. Richard F. Schmidt says it will be
grand. Seats 50 cents at E. Rische’s oppo-
site postoffice.
—The debating society decided last night
by a majority of three toone that $150000
should be spent in the improvement of our
city. That settles it.
—The talk last evening was upon the mag-
nificent defense Mac Anderson made on be-
half of Studer last evening. Il was one of the
finest exhibitions of forensic oratory ever heard
in the district court.
—lt is the general opinion that Studer has
been fortunate in escaping the gallows and
that the county attorney is to blame for the
indictment not being murder in the Ist de-
gree.
— Casino children’s ball Monday evening
from 5 until 10 p. ni. Afterwards hop for
members and their guests (strangers) only.
4 7‘3t
—“Help the sufferers” by buying a ticket
in Hart & Brown’s donation concert to come
off at Casino hall April 12. Vuu can have
seats secured without extra charge.
—The German immigration to the state is
still very large but there is a remarkable de-
crease in the immigration from Great Britain
The latter is caused by the immigration swin-
dles in England and by the published state-
ment of disssatislied visitors.
—Some excitement was created this morn-
ing at Billy 8 Joe’s by the ineffectual attempt
to arrest a man who damaged a buggy he
hired yesterday and who refused to pay fur it.
The man escaped by the back way.
The Briglimii-Saii-.laeinto Monument.
On the 21st iust. San Jacinto day the mon-
ument to the memory of Benjamin Rice Brig-
ham which was unveiled at Galveston in Au-
gust last will be placed over the grave on the
battle field with appropriate ceremonies. Our
fellow townsman Mr. Jas. L. Truehart has
received a number of photographs of the mon-
ument to dispose of for the benefit of a fund
to defray expenses.
The removal of the old unsightly market
stall from the center of Alamo plaza marks a
new era in our city.
Now that the old unsightly affair is being
torn down our citizens wonder why it was not
done before.
It is even unpleasant to think that our beef
has swung there so many years subjected to
the dust of the surrounding streets.
But now that is done for the next thing is
something else.
Maj. Kampmann is credited with the sug-
gestion that he would put up a fine fountain as
donation to the city.
It is a splendid opportunity for Major
Kampmann to immortalize his name in this
city where he has won his fortune and left
the impress of his industry and the work of
his life.
Maj. Kampmann belongs to the old school
of San Antonians who have carved out for
themselves a name in its history.
We consider it a grand piece of good fortune
that is offered our rich men who could upon
every public square erect some monument to
send their names down to future generations.
We are aware of the fact that some people
think they leave a sufficient monument in their
residences and business houses. A moment’s
reflection will show them that no matter how
splendid a private edifice may be it only
represents a selfish design.
But a monument to beautify a square to
give pleasure to the public and to add to the
happiness of the people leaves a grateful re-
membrance bchimi.
— •
Teller has been nominated secretary of
interior Chandler secretary of navy and Hunt
to be minister of Russia
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS. FRIDA V APRIL 7. 1882.
LOCAL IM ITS.
The Alamo I‘laza
THE CITY COUNCIL.
THE HITCH QUESTION.
There are some subjects of public interest
that everybody touches as lightly as possible
for fear of treading on somebody's toes and
especially does this apply to the city council.
The ditch question is one very closely allied
to all official interests and it is doubtful if
there is a single member of the city govern-
ment from the m yor down who would dare
make the slightest suggestion to the effect that
the ditch leak in the city treasury needed
plugging up.
The petition of several citizens opposite to
whose names are subscriptions amounting to
a total of about $250 asking the city to
advertise for bids to repair the valley ditch in
accordance with the plan of zUderman Nigli
exposes the ditch leak in very glaring pro-
portions.
This valley ditch is a monument to muni-
cipal folly it is an engineering enormity and
its construction was a fraud and an injury upon
the community. But there is a considerable
community of tax payers who own property on
this ditch and who have made homes adjacent
to it with the idea of being supplied with wa-
ter from it. The improvement suggested
would cost over $4OOO and it is doubtful if it
would be a permanent improvement after
made. The amount of irrigation supplied by
this ditch when running is insignificant the
main object being the supply of drinking wa-
ter to the people and we think it would be
far better to have the water works extended to
that vicinity.
To supply the water to run this ditch during
dry summers will greatly interfere with the
supply to the old ditches on the same side of
the river and there has grown up a decided
opinion that this ditch is a failure and that all
the money the city has spent and that citizens
have spent is money thrown away. The in
ception of this ditch was for the purpose of
supplying water for domestic purposes and
was before the water works were built. It is
argued that the city would gain by increased
assessments of property if this ditch was re-
paired and maintained which is no doubt
true but the benefits would also accrue to the
property owners as well and the property
owners should be satisfied to foot the bill
themselves and not force it upon the other
property owners of the city.
The time is fast coming when we must re-
turn to the original idea and practice in regard
to our ditches or abandon them altogether.
Originally the di'ches were a source of rev
enue to the city.
The ditches must become self-supporting;
the community at large is bound to protect it
self against the present imposition and the
people who use the ditches lor irrigation
should begin to look at the question in this
light.
The showing just made by the city council
of the receipts and expenditures incident to
the irrigating ditches is a better argument
than we can possibly make in favor of a re-
form.
The ditches on the east side supply 158 wa-
ter takers to whom 37S hours of water have
been sold at $1.50 per hour a total revenue of
$567.
The expense of repairing and cleaning these
ditches up to March Ist was $612.90. Taking
this as the sum for the year and add the sal-
ary of the ditch commissioner $9OO.
We have a total expense of $1512.90 or a
deficit of $1045.90. So that the people who
do not irrigate are taxed this amount for the
benefit of the few who do.
On the west side the income is $735 with an
expenditure of $540.65 and the salary of the
ditch commissioner $9OO makes a total of
$1440.65 and a deficit of $705.65.
A total deficit to the city of $• 757-55-
We can safely place the deficit for the year
at $2 000 to say nothing of the proposition to
widen the leak and let out $ |ooo more for the
repair of the Valley ditch.
The income is derived in the shape of
tax. The ditches on the east side pay $1.50
per hour for the year on the west side differ-
ent prices; the upper 1 -abor $2 the Als~an
$2.50 and the San Pedro $l. The reason
for these various taxes is not explained. The
city will be compelled in justice to the tax-
payers of the city to place the water rate at
such a figure as to cover the expense.
The question will elicit a great deal of dis-
cussion but it is one that will bear
d'scussion. It’s a genuine inexcusable
leak in our city treasury; just such
a leak as Alderman Copeland was looking for
when he was elected aiderman. It may be
said that two thousand dollars is not much of
a leak but if we can stop it as well as several
others of about the same size we will have
more money to put into general improve-
ments. It costs the city $2OOO for vegetables
that the people pay fui besides.
— “Mein Leopold” appears Sunday night.
Tim Thus Legialatiire.
At 12 m. yesterday the senate and house of
the Texas legislature assembled at Austin in
extra session.
In the senate at roll call a quorum was de
dared present.
< Ine <>r two clerkhips were filled.
A committee appointed to inform the house
that he senate was organized.
A resolution to subscribe to newspapers in-
troduced.
A bill introduced to prevent the granting of
more land to railroads &c. Senate adjourned
until 9:30 to-day. In the house a quorum
present.
Wm/bach introduced a redistricting bill.
Oxcher a bill mapping out new congres-
sional districts.
Chernwoi th creating a railroad commis-
sioner.
A bill to appropriate $5001x7 to pay ex-
penses of session.
Some discussion arose over appointment of
committee on districting business.
Nothing done yet of course.
———•—
BerMtiiHi.
M. W. Stone of Laredo is visiting the city
Capt. li. L. Crouch of Pearsall is at the
Menger.
S. Neil of Seguin is in the city.
Capt. B. L. Tait of Grove ranche is located
at the Menger Hotel.
Gen. and Miss C. Tyler of New York
accompanied by Major and Mrs. Moore are
at the Menger Hotel. The General intends
staying with his son-in-law Major Moore at
< apota farm for a few days.
The Hon. John and Miss Rosalie Ireland
of Seguin are guests at the Menger Hotel.
L. M. Crocker ex-mayor of Austin is at
the Menger Hotel.
Major E. M. Smith of the 22d infantry is
quartered at the Menger Hotel.
Value Hotel Arrivals.
D H Ainsworth San Francisco; M E Groos
Palestine; Jas DeVine Connecticut; C 1>
Morey St Louis; Geo J Clough Mason; C W
McLaugolin Bert Young Texas; T C Green-
wood Luling; R A Bernard Oskaloos; G W
Hicks; Nashville; E M Stapp New Orleans;
T Mctjueen Dallas; J M Walker Pecos.
Hurd's Hotel Arrivals.
F E Hamilton Galveston; J Henry Postles
Fort Worth; O T East Lampasas; J D Sta-
ples S O Cotton Houston; J Braun Rock-
dale; W A Waugh Waugh’s Ranch; Jolin
White Koscinski; I B Tyne New Orleans;
G 11 Frocke J S Conway Gonzales; A
Schweppe Boerne; J F Dehei Live Oak; W
G Bikling Gonzales; Lee Blumenthal Texas.
Arrivals at the Central Hotel.
T McOwen Dallas; II J Hayes W I*
Wood Caddo Grove; W J Long Belton; W
II Holland Georgetown; Walter Gregory
John Caddington Bandera; G II Harris
Houston; W II Jennings R W Roberson.
Prairie Lee; E Heimsath San Geronimo; J S
Davis Hot Springs; McStewart Woodbury;
| R Price Houston; J Meinford Luling; W
R Tully Atascosa; J 11 Housley Baltimore.
Menicer Hotel Arrivals
J A McLawrin Fort Concho; CS Hinsche
GII Drishfield WA Whittick Genl) Tyler
Miss C Tyler New York; C 1) Minter Kan-
sas; S and Miss Barres Cleveland; Charles
Peterson New Orleans: | L Tait Grove
Ranch; B L Crouch Pearsall; E H and Mrs
Calloway H J Runge Galveston; M K Mc-
Duffie Trinity; Major Alex and Miss Moore.
Capote Farm; F S Moore Boston; W F
Horne Houston; John and Mrs Pullis St
Louis; Mrs S A Johnstone Indianapolis; 1.
M Crooker T II Sublett Austin; \ Borling.
London Ky; E M Smith; Second Infantry;
M V Stone Laredo; John and Miss Rosalie
Ireland; Seguin; R A Stapard Columbia.
Sarah liernliarill
The telegram from London announcing
Sarah Bernhardt’s recent marriage is regarded
as a canard inasmuch as Mddle. Bernhardt
was introduced in August last to her Liverpool
friends as Madame Angele and it was stated
that she had just married the handsome and
accomplished actor who acted with her dur-
ing the last American tour.
German and English swear by God the
Latin races by the V irgin Danes by the devil.
For the Swede one devil is not enough. “A
thousand devils take me” is his usual oath
or if emergency demand ten thousand. In
moments of great excitement he rises to the
occasion and swears " l'en thousand tons of
devils take me.”
The Duchess of Madrid (Don Carlos’s wife)
sent to Rome a magnificent cope embroidered
by her own hands as a present to the Pope.
When the box arrived at the Vatican it was
found to be tilled with rags the precious cope
having been stolen in transit on the railway.
Joseph Pulitzer editor of the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch while coming out of Eckert’s res-
taurant corner sth and Walnut streets was
attacked by an unknown man who hit him in
the face with his fist. Pulitzer at once de-
fended himself and grasping the fellow by
the throat threw him with such force against’a
show window breaking it when the attacking
party got up double-quick running into and
through a neighboring saloon and disappear-
ing by the back door leaving a heavy club
behind which the P.-D. man carried off in
triumph.
One of the Lu idon hotels entertains its
roomers with a spicv notice signifying that if
any guest die there will be in addition to the
usual demands for .leaning the room and
damaged linen a chai e of five guineas. This
is with an eye sinister to th? usual suicidal
luxury.
IO Cents a Week
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
In the senate yesterday a memorial was
read from the temperance organization of
Wisconsin protesting against Senator Logan’s
measure to devote the liquor tax to education.
A $50000 appropriation was passed to feed
the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians.
Another Chinese bill introduced limiting
prohibition of immigration to io years.
Bills passed directing copies of the official
letter books oi the executive department of
North Carolina to be furnished to said state ;
authorizing the construction of a public build-
ing in Key West Florida and appropriating
siooouo therefor; amending the revised
statutes so as to allow perique tobacco to be
sold in the form of cigarrettes to manufactur-
ers as material for the manufacture of cigar-
ettes or smoking tobacco without tax.
The presidential election bill taken up and
discussed and passed.
Teller confirmed as secretary of Interior.
The bill creating two assistant appraisers at
the port of New Orleans passed.
In the house: The committee has reported
in favor of Lynch against Chambers in the
contested case.
The Indian appropriation bill reported back
with amendments.
Page of California asked leave to introduce
another Chinese bill and succeeded.
Small Talk
THE MEMBER FROM NEBRASKA.
Special Dispatch to the <Hube-Democrat
Washington April 3. —The judiciary com-
mittee of the house having reported favorably
to the seating of the contingent member from
Nebraska Col. Tom Major he looks lor a de-
cision of the matter at an early day. There
will be no considerable democratic opposition
to his being seated Congressman Culberson
of Texas favoring his claim.
NOMINATION REJECTED.
The senate had a long executive session this
evening most of it being taken up in consid-
ering treaties in the briefest possible space of
time. The senate disposed of General J. H.
Walmough to be paymaster general of the
navy which nomination has been hanging al-
ternately in the committee on naval affairs and
the senate for more than three months. The
senate without discussion and without a di-
vision on the vote rejected the nomination.
There appear to be four candidates for the va-
cancy.
GIFTS FOR HIE SULTAN.
Two magnificent Winchester express rides
of the finest make work and material with
inscription plate and mountings of gold the
latter richly engrvaed with hunting scenes
were to-day received by the state department.
The rilles were ordered in December last and
have just been completed. They are to be
presented through the state department by the •
president one to his majesty Seynd Toorkee
Bin Seynd sultan of Muscat; the other to his
highness the Rajah of Inlubary. The former
in return for presents sent by the sultan to the
national museum the latter in recognition oi
services rendered by the Rajah to the officers
and crew of the American bark Coringa
wri cked off the coast of Saal Sabau a year
ago.
THE UTAH COMMISSIONERS.
A question has arisen as to whether the jur-
isdiction of the Utah commission will embrace
the several Mormon counties in the territory
of Utah or not. Secretary Singhenson of
that territory is here and says that while the
polygamists in Idaho are quiet and peaceable
they are a great drawback to the country and
in their disfranchisement in Maho that terri-
tory will be changed completely politically*
and the present democratic delegate Ainslee
w ill be succeeded by a republican.
Society mnl Mr. Gliulatoue
Mr. Woolner the celebrated English sculp-
tor is engaged upon a bust of Mr. Gladstone
and for this statuary Greece—the ancient
Hellas —has sent a tine block of Grecian
marble in recognition of bis services to (ireece.
The W hitehall Review one of the first society
papers thus alludes to the circumstance in
language rarely applied publicly to a man
occupying Mr. Gladstone’s position :
“While Woolner’s hand in classic mood
Garving the premier’s pate is
Hellas to show her gratitude
Sends us her glad-stone gratis.
Oh ! could this country stone for stone
Return the gift genleely.
And from Britannia send her own
Gladstone to Hell as freely.
The Mascot is the title of a sharp ringing
weekly published every Saturday in New
Orleans which has attained to its seventh
number. It is aggressive and fearless with
an avalanche of steel edge keen as a briar
and independent as any sovereign mule. It
pulls the current officials into its fighting ring
by name ami wallops them soundly beginning
with the august person of his W'ashup the
Mare. It badgers insolence and sits down
on fraud. The leech and the sucker are
wired into prominence whether private or
public and no charge ma e fur inquests. 'The
Mascot is after the insurance frauds with a
vitally sharp stick that brings blood at every
touch of its glittering point. Let us have the
Mascot every time.
Our Organelie (Indianapolis Ind.) vol.
1 No. 1 is a pulled stirring intelligent
comprehensive progressive trade union jour-
nal published on the first and thlid Saturday
of each month at $1 a year. It is devoted to
the general interests the dignity and inde-
pendence of labor— a handsomely printed
quarto. There is an open field fur a work of
this kind and we see no reason why it should
not do a world of good.
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