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VOLUME 111.
OUR NEW PRESIDENT.
CLEVELAND’S PATRIOTIC INAUG
URAL ESS.
The Old-Time Democratic Doctrine—The
Voice of a Statesman and Patriot—
The Breaking of*a Brighter
Day for tho Republic.
At 12:40 p. m. President-elect Cleve
land arose and began liis inaugural ad
dress. lie was clad in a full suit of black
—•Prince Albert coat, high, old-fashioned
standing collar and black tie. In speak
ing lie held his left hand closed behind
him and emphasized his speech by ges
ticulating witli liis right. He spoke
without manuscript, but occasionally con
sulted a small piece of paper bearing notes
of the heads of his discourse. His voice
was clear and resonant, and he slowly
enunciated his words and occasionally
turned about at pauses as if to note the
eifcct of his remarks. lie spoke as follow's :
Fellow Citizens : In the presence of
this vast assemblage of my countrymen 1
am about to supplement and seal by the
oath which I thail take tiie manifestation
of a great and free people. In the exercise
of their power and right of self-government
they have committed to one of their fellow
citizens a supreme and sacred trust and lie
here consecrates himself to their service.
This impressive cereraonv adds little to
•the solemn sense of responsibility with
which 1 contemplate the duty 1 owe to the
people of the land. Nothing can relieve
me from the anxiety, lest by any act of
mine their interests may suffer, and noth
ing is needed to strengthen my resolution
to engage every faculty and effort in the
promotion of their welfare. Amid the din
of the party strife the people’s choice was
made, but its attendant circumstances
demonstrated anew the strength and safety
of a government by the people. In each
succeeding year it more clearly appears
that our Democratic principle needs no
apology and that in its fearless and faith
ful application is to be found the surest
guarantee of good government, but the
best results in the operations of a govern
ment, wherein every citizen has a share,
largely depend upon a proper limitation
of a purely partizau zeal and effort, and a
correct appreciation of the time when the
heat of the partisan should be merged in
the patriotism of the citizen. To-day the
executive branch of the government is
transferred to anew keeping, but this is
still the governmmit of all the people, and
should be none the less an object of their
affectionate solicitude. At this hour the
animosities of political strife, the bitterness
of partisan defeat and the exultation of
partisan triumph should be supported by
au ungrudging acquiescence in the popu
lar will and a sober, conscientious concern
for the general weal. Moreover, if from
this hour w'e cheerfully and honorably
abandon all sectional prejudice and dis
trust and determine with manly confidence
in one another to work out harmoniously
the achievements of our national destiny,
i'mukl in the
interest is subserved and the general wel-.
tare advane id. In the discharge of my
oflicml duty I shall endeavor to be guided
by a just and unrestrained construction
ot the constitution, a careful observance of
tb ' distinction between the powers grant
ed to the Federal government and thor-e
r ' ved to the States or the people, and
•'} cautious appreciation of those func
'• ; which by the constitution and laws
1 ; been especially assigned to the
i utive branch of the government, but
lie who takes the oath to protect and
defend the Constitution of the United
States only assumes the solemn obligation
which every patriotic citizen on the farm,
in the workshop, in the busy marts of
trade and every where should share with
him.
It is the duty cl those serving the peo
ple i:i public places to closely limit pub
lic expenditures to the actual needs of
the government, economically adminis
tered, because this bounds tlie right of
the government to exact a tribute from
t .10 earnings of labor or the property of
the citizen, and because public extrava
gance begets extravagance among tlie
people. We should never be ashamed of
the simplicity and prudential economies
which are best suited to the operation of
a republican form of government and
most compatible with the mission of tlie
American people. Those ayLio are select
ed for a limited time to manage public
affairs are still of the people and may do
much by their example to encourage,
consistently with the dignity of their of
ficial functions, that plain way of life
which among tlioir fellow citizens aids in
tegrity and promotes thrift and industry.
The genius of our institutions, the
needs of our people in the home life, and
the attention which is demanded for the
settlement and development of tlie re
sources of our vast territory, dictate the
scrupulous' avoidance of any* departure
bum that foreign policy commended by
the history, the traditions and the pros
perity and <mr republic. It is the policy
of independence favored by our position
nnd defended by our known love of jus
tice and by our power. It is the policy
of peace suitable to our interest. Ic is
the policy of neutrality, rejecting any
miave in foreign broils and ambitions
upon other continents and repelling their
intrusion lfere. It is the policy of Mon
yoe and of Washington and Jefferson:
‘Teaco, commerce and honest friendship
v ‘|t)i i'll nations—entangling alliances
with none.”
A uue regai and fur the interests and
prosperity of all the people demands that
our finances shall be established upon
such a sound and sensible basis as shall
secure the safety arid confidence of busi
ness interests and make the wage of la
bor sure and steady, and that our sy s
tem of revenue shall be so adjusted as" to
relieve the people of all unnecessary tax -
ation, having a due regard for the inter
ests of capital iutered and workmen em
ployed oy American industries, and pre
venfin the accumulation of a surplus in
the treasury to tempt extravagance and
waste.
Tin* conscience of the people demands
that the Indians within our boundaries
snail he fairly and honestly treated as.
wards of the government, aud their edu
cation aud civilization promoted, with a
view’ to their ultimate citizenship, and
that polygamy in the Territories, destruc
tive of the family relation aud offensive
to the moral sense of the civilized world,
shall be repressed.
The laws should be rigidly enforced
which prohibit the immigration of a ser
vile class to compete with American la
bor with no intention of acquiring citi
zenship and bringing with them and re
taining customs and habits repugnant to
our civilization.
Tho people demand reform in the ad
ministration of the government and the
application of business principles to pub
lic affairs. Asa means to this end, civil
service reform should be iu good faith
enforced. Our citizens have the right to
protection from the incompetence of pub
lic employes, who hold their places sole
ly as the reward of partisan service, aud
from the corrupting iullueuce of those
who promise and those whtf expect such
rewards, and those w r ho worthily seek
public employment have the right to in
sist that merit and competency shall
bo recognized instead of party subser
viency or the surrender of honest
political belief. In the administration
of a government pledged to do equal and
exact justice to all men, there should be
no pretext for anxiety touching the pro
tection of the freedman in tlieir security
in the enjoyment of the privileges of the
constitution and its amendments. All
discussion as to their fitness for the pla
ces accorded to them as American people
is idle and unprofitable, except as it sug
gests the necessiety for tlieir improve
ment. The fact that they are citizens
entitles them to all rights to that relation
and charges them with all its duties, ob
ligation and responsibilities.
These topics and the constant aud ever
varying wants of an active and enterpri
sing population may well receive the at
tention and the patriotic endeavor of all
who make and execute the Federal laws.
Our duties are practical and call for in
dustrious application, an intelligent per
ception of the claims of public office, and
above all, a firm determination by united
action to sucure to all the people of the
land the full benefits of the best form of
government ever vouchsafed to man.
Aud lot us not trust to human effort alone
but, humbly acknowledging the power,
aud goodness of Almighty God who pre
sides over the destiny of nations, aud
Bvho has at times been revealed in our
Country’s history, let us invoke his aid
Bind blessing upon our labors.
I When he began the crowed applauded
Ivhenever he paused to take a breath, but
Biter a w'hile contented itself with cheer
ing him as he made his principal points,
Bud his reference to the .prohibition of
loreign contract labor called out a loud
Bud long continued applause, but his al
lusion to civil service reform fell pretty
Rat. The address was very brief and at
■precisely two minutes past 1 o’clock he
■concluded with an invocation of the blea
ting of Providence.
I A NATION’S FUEL LUNCH.
■A Story of Andrew Jackson’s Feast
I of Cheese Retold.
I [Special to the Courier-Journal.]
I Washingnon, Feb. 22.—The approach
ling inauguration brings out many reada
ble stories connected with former inaugu
rations, one of tiie best of which is the
Ifollowiug, printed to-day:
On the 22d of February, 1837, the
White House presented a scene of more
[Democratic character than it is likely to
'ever see again. President Andrew Jack
bou was getting tho Executive Mansion
ready to be turned over to bis successor,
Mr.. Van Bureu. Among other things to
be disposed of was the “great cheese, ’
Weighing 1,400 pounds, which had been
presented to tue President by the Dem
ocratic farmers of New England some
years before. It was still uncut. So
Gen. Jackson invited the public to call
on him on Wash ngton’a birthday and
eat the cheese.
Au eye-witness of the affair says: “The
circular pave extending from the gate to
the White House was thronged with citi
zens of all classes, those coming away
having each a small piece ot brown paper
parcel aud a very strong smell; those ad
vancing, manifesting by unmistakable
gestures and frequent exclamations that
there may be too much of a good thing,
and particularly of cheese. The portico
was crowded with boys and coach driv
ers, and the odor strengthened at every
step. We forced our way over the
threshold, and encountered an atmos
phere to which the mephitic gas over
Avernus must be faint and innocuous.
O.i the side of tho had hung a rough
likeness of Gen Jackson, emblazoned
with eagle aud stars, forming a back
ground to the huge tub iu which the
cheese had been packed, and in the cen
tre of the vestibule stood the “fragrant
gift,” surrounded by a dense crown, who,
without crackers or even “malt” to their
cheese, had, in two hours, eaten aud pur
veyed away more than half a ton of the
horribly-smelling “testimonial” to the
hero of New Orleans. A small segment
had been reserved for the President’s
use, but it is doubtful if he ever tasted
it.
“The President was receiving in the
oval reception room and the East room
was crowded with an immense throng.
The day was cold and many wore their
over-coats. The old hero was very fee
ble, but nevertheless he sat in a chair for
two or three hours and received his
friends with his usual bland and dignified
courtesy. By his side stood the lady of
the mansion dressed in full court cos
tume, and she did the honors with grace
and courtesy. Gen. Jackson retired
about 2 o’clock to his chamber, and Pres
ident-elect Van Bureu remained to as
sist in receiving the guests. This part
of the performance J. think was as unique
as any of the day. No other retiring
President has been on such terms with
his successor as Jackson with \an Bu
reu.”
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1885.
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THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
HON. DANIEL MANNING,
Secretary of the Treasury Under
the New Regime.
As the distinguished politician thus hon
ored has been eminently useful to his party
and to Mr. Cleveland in particular, there is
nothing remarkable in the probability of
the appointment. Mr. Manning has proved
himself to be an able and versatile man,
and there is no reason to doubt that he
would fill efficiently the important ap
pointment to which he is designated by an
unanimous voice.
He is several years on the sunny aide of
fifty, an Albanian by birth, and a self made
man. His parents were in a very humble
and obscure position in life, and it is not
conceivable that they ever thought their
bright and precocious boy would develop
into a Cabinet minister. When he was a
very young boy, Daniel was sent to work
as a messenger and general drudge in the
printing office of the Argus, Alban)', New
York. From this mean position his fellow
citizens of the place of liis birth have ob
served his rise, certainly to eminence if not
to greatness.
Before long the hoy had learned the art
and mystery of setting type, and worked
at the case. He had moreover, manifested
ability which Mr. Cassidy, then editor of
the Argus, was quick to observe. Accor
dingly he gave the young compositor a
position as reporter, one to which he proved
to be admirably adapted. Manning at the
time was about twent years of age, healthy
and vigorous, self-assertive and plucky.
Ho is now President of the Argus Com
pany, which owns the newspaper on the
staff of which he earned his first dollar,
and the Argus speaks as inspired by the
man who began a busy life sweeping its
office.
Mr. Manning has been Chairman of tho
New York democratic Committee for
several years. He is a near friend of Sam
uel J. Tilden, and to him is largely due the
Democratic victory in New York State
last November —the victory which insured
the return of his party to power in Wash
ington. His dexterity was the chief cause
of M r. Cleveland’s nomination to the Presi
dency.
The above portrait of Mr. Manning is
from a recent photograph, and the reader
needs not to be told that its subject has
a handsome countenance. His figure is
tall and large, and his carriage comman
ding. While not a great orator Mr. Man
ning speaks with a ready, exact and
pleasing address in public. In counsel
Lie is sagacious, and in planning and exe
cuting party schemes adroit and able.
His wealth is considerable, he lives in
good style and dispehsis hospitality with
discrimination and liberality.
Farm and Stock Notes.
Put asafoetida in tbe W’ater for chick
ens that have the gapes,
Wood ashes are six times more valua
ble for the orchard than barnyard ma
nure.
Joseph Harris says _ that one plowing
while the land is dry, is worth two plow
iugs when it is wet.
A Tennessee man lived on a farm for
sixteen years without knowing that it had
a cave on it worth twenty thousand dol
lars.
Salt is beneficial to most crops and one
ot the very best ways of applying it is to
incorporate it with the manure used as a
top dressing.
A supply of lime and gravel should be
kept in the henhouse during the winter.
A good deal of small gravel will be eaten
by fowls, the stones iu their gizzards
helping to grind the food aid make it
more digestible. The lime is best given
in tho shape of oyster or clam shells
slightly burned and then pounded into
fine pieces.
A horse with a high ridge on the top
of his head will be balky unless very
corefuity treated. This ridge is located
on the phrenological bump of firmness,
and in the horse, at least, this indication
is to be avoided. A horse broad iu the
forehead will he generally intelligent and
kind. Those experienced in judging
horses can tell by tlieir faces and heads
what manner of beasts they are.
Avery common mistake, or fault, is
committed by farmers in permitting all
kinds of stock to run together in one
yard or inclosure. Horses, colts—which
are frisky creatures—bulls, cows, sheep,
pigs aud fowls all run in one yard or field.
Tho horses worry the colts ; the colts
chase the cows and „sheep ; the cows
“hook” the colts; tho bulls gore the
horses ; the pigs worry the cows and
sheep, aud often destroy the new-born
calves aud lambs ; the fowls and ducks are
tramped oil, and there is a sad time all
around.
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Some of the prettiest new ribbons have
satin grounds nearly covered with small
velvet dots, diamonds or crescent.
TWENTY INAUGURATIONS.
AN EYE WITNESS TE|_LS OF THE
CEREMONIES.
Exciting Scenes —Interesting Reminis
cences of Men and Things from
Jefferson to Garfield.
[Washington Letter to Huston Globed
Capt Daniel Armistead, a venerable
citizen cf S9, now living on the farm of
his son, near Fall Church, on tho Virgin
ia shore of the Potomac, has witnessed
twenty Presidential elections, undoubt
edly an experience which no other Amer
ican can boast. He was at the second
inauguration of Jefferson in 1805, and he
saw the British burn the capitol in 1815.
The faces of the early statesmen are pho
tographed on his memory. He saw the
Southern statesmen turn their backs on
the capitol iu 1861, and he has lived
to see them return.
“I was present at the second inaugu
ration of Jefferson,” said Captain Armis
tead, “but I must admit that I do not
recollect much about it, I was then
only eight years old old. I went to the
capitol with my father. I remember
Mr. Jefferson when he came into the
Senate and took the ctith. He was
dressed in brown clothes and he spoke
so low that the people could not hear
him. I know I got so tired I went to
sleep and my father aroused me by a
thump on the head.
“I have a lively recollection of the in
auguration of James Madison in 1809.
The whole population turned out to wit
ness the ceremonies. Mr. Madison was
escorted to the capitol by $ battalion of
cavalry, and he was constantly cheered
along the line of March, i There were
10,000 people at the east'front of the
capitol, and there was such a pressure to
get near the platform where! Mr. Madison
stood that several ladies fainted, and
there were some fights between rowdies.
After the inauguration Mr. Madison
tried to get away from the crowd, but
they followed liis carriage to the White
House, and such cheering I have never
heard since. The President was dressed
in homespun, and that seemed to create
more enthusiasm than anything else.
Tiie ladies went wild over Mrs Madison.
One incident at the White House gate
caused much excitement. The English
feeling had not all died out at that day,
aud a man named Montgomery, who be
longed to a Tory family iu Maryland,
made himself very bjr saying that
Madison ought to be hung. The crowd
used him pretty roughly, gouging out an
eye and breaking liis nose. I saw that
same fellow, badly disfigured, at the sec
ond inauguration of Madison.
“The British having burned the capi
tol, the inauguration of Mr. James Mon
roe in 1817 took place in Congress Hall.
His inaugural speech was made from an
elevated platform east cf the capitol,
which was then being rebuilt. Mr. Mon
roe rode in a carriage drawn by two
white horses, followed by an immense
procession. There were two batteries of
artillery in line. There was a brilliant
scene in the Senate chamber. Many
richly-dressed ladies occupied chairs on
the Senate floor, the Senators standing.
All the foreign dignitaries were there,
and the Supreme Court judges, including
Chief Justice Marshall, who administered
the oath of office. After the ceremonies
there was more artillery firing than I
have ever heard at any other inaugura
tion. There was a perfect roar iu the
navy yards, and cannon boomed in the
public grounds opposite the capitol.”
Capt. Armistead gives a graphic ac
count of the impressive scene at the in
auguration of Jolm Quincy Adams in
1825. Gen. Jackson, who had been a
competitor for the Presidency, was pres
ent, and excited great applause by his
popular congratulation of Mr. Adams.
“When Gen. Jackson came forward
and shook hands with Mr. Adams, a man
in the crowd waved his hat and called
out, ‘Three cheers for Jackson!’ He
was very drunk, and there were plenty
of other drunken people who cheered for
Jackson. About a dozen men were so
noisy that the police had to take them
out of the capitol, and the confusion was
terrible. That night, while the inaugu
ration ball was iu progress, crowds walk
ed along the streets and sang Jackson
campaign songs. Several pistol shots
were fired. The saloons were kept open
all night, and there were any number of
fights. Young desperadoes, sons of
farmers in neighboring counties, rode
around town all niglit, shouting and sing
ing.
“But nothing occurred iu Washington
that would equal tho scones that took
place at the inauguration of Jackson in
1829. It seemed that every bully and
desperado in the United States had sud
denly come to the capital. One-half the
men had their trousers iu their boots,
and some of them wore pistols in full
view’. Washington w’as small then, and
the hotels aud boarding houses would
not hold the crowds. It was the biggest
swarm of people ever seen here, most, of
the visitors being from the South and
West, Tennessee being especially well
represented. Every man carried a hick
ory stick, and some women wore neckla
ces of small hickory nuts fancifully pain
ted. One lady had a bonnet made of
hickory leaves, and several horses in the
procession had hickory bark bridies.
Such yelling you never heard. It was
tike a whole tribe of Indians lot loose on
the streets of Washington. Gen. Jack
son seemed to enjoy thes outlandish de
monstrations. He kept his hat off and
smiled at the crowd. ‘Go in, Andy; we
put you there!’ aud ‘Give cm fits, Andy!’
were some of the expressions heard, at all
of which the General smiled.”
“There must have been 10,000 people
arouud the White House,’’ said Captain
Armistead. “It w’as really a howling
mob, the greater part of it drunk and dis
orderly. About fifty colored servants
were engaged in dipping out the orange
punch and giving it in tumblers on wait
ers, but the crowd was impatient and
cursed and yelled. Finally several tubs
of punch w'ere carried outside the house
and the crowd followed, and that was the
only way the roughs could be gotten out
of the White House.
“That was a lively year for boarding
house keepers. Many of the people who
came to the inauguration were after offices
and they staid here for weeks.
“The inauguration of Martin Van Buren
in 1837 did not create so much excite
ment, though there was a great crowd
here. The procession was the longest and
most orderly that had ever been seen in
Washington. There was more curiosity
to see ‘Old Hickory’ than Van Buren.
The two left the White House together in
a splendid carriage, which had been made
from the wood of the old frigate Constitu
tion and presented to President Jackson
by the Democrats of New York. Clay
and Webster were in the procession, and
w’ere conspicuous at the inauguration
ceremonies; but neither Calhoun nor any
of his friends w’ere there. There was a
strong feeling against Calhoun at that
time.
But the inauguration of Gen. Hirrison
in 1841 w’as, according to Capt. Armistead,
the most exciting exent of that kind w'hich
has yet marked the history of this coun
try.
“The day was the loveliest I ever saw’
n Washington,” said Capt. Armistead. “I
was opposite the residence of Col. Seaton,
editor of the Intelligencer, when Harrison
came out with him and mounted his milk
white horse. He W’as a magnificient look
ing man on horseback. He took his place
in a hollow square of cavalry, and rode
that way to the capitol. Flags w’ere fly
ing and drums beating everywhere. The
vast multitude cheered constancy, and all
the church bells in the city rang merrily.
The procession was as gay as a carnival.
Open barouches held beautifully dressed
ladies. The horses w’ere covered with
flails. Whole companies of men w’ore
coon-skln caps and other grotesque trap
pings. Six white horses were harnessed
to a car, on which there w’as spinning jen
ny in full operation.! ; Other wagons w’ere
headed w’ith miniature log cabins and
hard cider barrels. An immense log cab
in on wheels w’as drawn by thirteen w’hite
horses.”
In his account of the scenes at the inau
guration of James K. Polk, Armistead
substantially agrees with the writers of
that day, that the Democrats w’ere so wild
with joy over the expulsion of “coonery”
from the White House that they made the
echoes ring with hoots and yells. “Rich
elieu” w’as the caustic correspondent Jof
the New York Tribune, ever since known
as “Richelieu” Robinson, and now r a mem
ber of the House, though he long ago
abandoned American politics to engage in
the occupation of pinching the British
lion’s tail. “Richelieu” w’rote that the
scene was the most “disgraceful” ever wit
nessed at the capital.
“There’s one thing about Polk’s inaugu
ration,” said Capt. Armistead; “that’s the
only inauguration day on which it ever
rained in Washington. There was snow
on the ground when Pierce was inaugura
ted in 1853, but there W’as no rain. Polk
stood under an umbrella and read his ad
dress. There were 20,000 ladies out that
day, but the rain dispersed many of them.”
A FRESH TRAMP STORY.
The Train Flagged Down to Pre
vent an Accident.
[Detro.t Free Press.]
About eighteen miles above Centralia,
111., the engineer began to blow’ toot 1 toot t
toot! and to slacken his pace, and by and
by the train came to a standstill. The
male passengers rushed out, as in duty
bound, and in time to see a man lying on
the rails in front of the engine, and anoth
er man bending over him. When the
crowd, headed by the conductor, reached
the spot, the man on his feet explained:
“I discovered him about ten minutes
ago, and, as I didn’t w’ant to see the train
run over him, I gave the signal.”
“But why didn’t you pull him off the
track the conductor.
“I couldn’t be hired to touch a dead
body,” was the reply.
“What! is he dead ?”
“Reckon he is that.”
We examined the body and found life
in it. lie was a poorly dressed man, seem
ingly in hard luck, and for the matter of
that so was the other.
“I think,” said the stranger W'lio had
stopped the train, “that he has taken pizen
and laid dow r n here to make sure work of
it. If you are a mind to take him on to
Centralia I’ll kind o’ rub him into life and
get a doctor to pump him out.”
The conductor assented, and w’e lugged
him into the baggage car. The case crea
ted considerable talk among the passen
gers, and a purse of $7 was made up for
the unfortunate. However, as we slowed
up for Centralia, and before the purse was
presented, there was a great yelling from
the baggage car, and we looked out to see
the two tramps dusting across a field. It
was a game they had played to get a
twenty-mile lift.
SAN ANTONIO, TE.YAS.
IN AND AEOUT THE FAMOUS OLD
CITY OT THE ALAMO.
Its Many Features of Interest, and the
Resources and Outlets of the
Country About It.
This famous old city of the Alamo is 280
miles almost due south from Fort Worth
by the Missouri Pacific railway. The
magnificent buildings erected within the
last few r years, the telephone, street cars
and electric lights, and the gorgeous
“White Elephant Saloon,” said to have
cost $50,000, together with many other
“modern improvements,” can not rob the
old place of its identity or its general air
of a Mexican city. While modern im
provements have wrough certain changes,
the old land-marks remain sufficiently
prominent to remind veterans that this is
the same old San Antonio. The 35,000
population is yet largely Mexican, and
they maintain their ancient custom. Near
the center of the Military plaza scores of
“Chile” stands are erected every evening
just before dusk. These stands w’ould be
called in “American” portable restaurants.
The menu served consists mainly of
Chile-con-earn -a beef stew, very highly
seasoned with Mexican peppers, and is
really a very palatable dish, and if served
by our first-class hotels as an entree
W’ould find favor with all who relish a
highly-seasoned dish. Coffee, eggs and
other viands are served by these Mexicans
from clean dishes on neat and clean tables-
The Chile stands open out for business
about dusk every evening and keep open
until after breakfast next morning. Each
stand has two and sometimes three glass
lanterns, made somewhat like and resem
bling the ordinary street gas lamp, but
smaller. There are other stands scattered
through the plaza where fancy articles are
sold, and some where the Mexican games
of chance are carried on. The scene pre
sented on the plaza from dusk until after
midnight is interesting to strangers from
the North. These Chile stands operate
seriously against hoarding houses, and
even hotels complain, for they monopolize
a big trade and pay no license or rent ;
consequently sell cheap. I noticed that
they were patronized by the w'ell-dressed
as well as the medium and low er class,
and without distinction of race or color.
The San Antonio Mexicans arc said to be
loyal to Americans. Many of them served
in the army of the Texas republic, and
later in the Confederate army, and to-day
would promptly volunteer in the service
of the United States against any foreign
U'A, oven Mexico. They are very simple
and quiet people, never asking or caring
for office, but invariably vote the Demo
cratic ticket.
Texans have a warm place in their
hearts for Kentucky. Kentucky blood
flowed freer and oftener than any other
during the struggle for freedom, and many
of the best families in the State to-day are
Kentuckians. The old Veremendia house
—one of the most interesting of the many
historical spots in San Antonio —is in a
good state of preservation, and is now
used as a saloon. Davy Crockett W’as
married there to the daughter of Yerman
dia, a very handsome woman, who during
subsequent troubles between Texans and
Mexicans; proved true to her husband and
his people against even her own father.
In the court of tlieir little house is where
the gallant Col. Milam fell while carrying
the city by storm, with a force not half as
numerous as the Mexicans. Ilis remains
rest in a little park laid out and named
in his honor.
The old Alamo stands as grim and
gloomy as in the days of Travis and his
heroic band. Recently the Governor w T as
compelled to lock its doors to save it from
vandalism. A bill is now pending in the
present Legislature appropriating a suffi
cient fund for the care of the old church.
Texas should do mere. A statute com
memorating the heroism of its defenders
should be placed on the plaza on the spot*
where the hr oes were bayonated and
burned. San Antonio has never been
regarded as a business center. Its leading
attraction has been salubrity of climate
and winter health resort. It has been
extensively advertised in this connection
by the railroads and hotels, and its repu
tation as such is firmly established. The
business men of the city and country
generally begin to see other and more
solid attractions in the location of San
Antonio. It is only 154 miles from Laredo,
the eastern railway gate to Mexico.
When the Mexican National Railway is
completed to the City of Mexico, it will
reduce the distance between the City of
Mexico and St. Louis, New Orleans and
Eastern points 575 miles nearer than by
the way of El Paso. The only direct con
nection with Laredo from this place now
is by the Missouri Pacific system, which
extends north in all directions. The
direct eastern and w’estern route from
here is the Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antonio.
Within another year San Antonio ex
pects to have two more roads, the most
important being the Arkansas Bay road,
extending from here to the Gulf of Mexico
about 100 miles, where, it is claimed, deep
water already exists sufficient for large
vessels. This road will run through some
of the finest lands in the State. The San
Antonio river—that winds through the
streets of this city—is capable of furnish
ing enormous power, which is now but
little used. Building material of the best
are abundant. The cement made here
proved upon a recent test superior to the
Portland. It will be used in constructing
the new capitol. This will in a few years
be a great manufacturing city, particularly
for export trade. Flour will be one of the
chief products. No better place could be
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found in the South to-day for establishing
mills for the manufacture of cotton and
woolen fabrics, carpets, etc. Nothing can
take from El Paso her share of tirade and
influence in the West, or Galveston’s im
portance in the East, but with the gap
from Saltillo to the City of Mexico closed
and the Arkansas Bay railway completed
San Antonio will hold the keys of t and
dictate terms, to both. This position will
be occupied within another year.
LI Eli IN ICELAND.
Queer Customs of the People In
the Liiul of Eternal Snow.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Mrs. Olaf Krarer is an intelligent litilo
Esquimaux woman, twenty-seven years
of age. She relates that she was born in
the northern part if Greenland, and lived
thereuntil she was fifteen years of age,
when reports having reached her father
of the warmer, better country of Iceland,
the family emigrated there on a dog-sled.
During her stay of live years in Iceland
she was, to use her own words, “eddieat
d,” and learned, among other things, erf
America and her people.
Having a great desire to satisfy her cu
riosity concerning us, she came with a
number of Icelanders to British America,
and from the Eastern coast finally came
to Manitoba. To an Enquirer reporter
she said: “My country is very different
from this. I will explain how we build
houses in my country. We press the
snow into haul bricks and build a tent
shaped house. Inside we line the walls
and floor with fur. We hare an opening
left for a door, which is high enough for
a child eight years old here to go in and
out. We hang a fur curtain up at tho
opening. We make our fire in tho snow
house. The fires are made of lean meat,
oil and bones, for we have no wood in
my country—not so much as a match.
Fires are started with a flint, but flints
are very scarce and the man who owns
one is considered well off. The smoke
from the fire is kept in the house, and as
we use oil on our faces the smoke and
oil make us of a dark color. W T o never
wash, for there is no water and it would
freeze on our faces. A lady in my coun
try uses plenty of oil, just as ladies here
think they look nice with powder and
paint. The ladies of my country have
an easy time, no woik but the making of
the clothes and (he care cf her cLildren;
only, if a baby cries she * ill not tako
care of it. She throws it into the corner
of the snow-house, and when it is quiet
she takes it and pets it. I will explain
to yOU 110 V. ttc marry in my Country.
The man must steal his wife. If lie is
caught trying to get her he is killed, for
if he is not sharp enough to steal her
they think he is not sharp enough to take
care of her. After he lias married her
he can never leave her. If he does, he
is killed, We have no religion in my
country, but we think a good man will
go to a good place, and a bad man to a
bad place. We are kind to each other,
only we are not kind to the sick, for we
think if they were any account they
would not be sick. We have but one
sickness. Sometimes it lasts two years,
sometimes six years. I think it is what
you call consumption. When a man
dies we siick him away in the snow and
his spear with him.
“I will explain for you how we hunt
in my country. The men kill whales,
walruses, bears, snd seals. The first
man who sticks his spear in an animal
gets tho skin, and the meat is divided
between the others. The meat is eaten
raw. The people like best the blood and
fat. The skins are used for clothes,
which are sewed up with animal’s sinews.
Onr sleds are made of skins and bones,
and are drawn by dogs. When the dogs
are well trained they are driven without
reins.
“The beds of my country are made of
the fur; a whole family sleep in one bed.
If a man lives alone he makes the furs
into a sack, and crawls into it when ho
wants to sleep. We sleep when we are
sleepy, and cat when hungry. Our
night-time lasts for six months, but we
have always light from the snow and
stars. Our daytime we do not line—the
sunlight and snow mnke our eyes burn
like they would drop out of our heads.
The two months’ twilight is the most
pleasant time.
“My people grow no taller than a child
of eight in this country, and they never
live to be over sixty years of age. This
climate,” concluded Miss Krarar, “weak
ens me.” It is very warm.” And in
deed the little lady wore her sleeves
short, exposing her arms. Short arms
they were and peculiarly shaped. The
arms of the Esquimaux men arestraight
er, from being used more. Mm. Kra
rer’s height is forty inches, her weight
one hundred and twenty pounds.
“What did you think of the people of
this country when you first saw them?”
was asked Miss Krarer.
“Oh,” she replied, “they looked so
big they almost scared me to death; and
I was much frightened when I first saw
a black woman. I thought she was very
dirty.”
Spriggs says that is keeps a fellow bussy
to attend to his best giril.
Artistic ability may not be hereditary
hut often times drawing is sketching.
When the mercury falls wc may antici
pate the dude drop if its an ice day.
Mormons ought to be good sailors—they
have so much marry time experience.