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COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.
lime-stone quarries, from which he furnishes the main portion of the lime
used by dealers and builders in this section. In addition, he deals in Eng-
lish and German, Portland and American cement of the most reputable
manufactories sewer pipe, vitrified and unglazed, hair, and in fact, buil-
ders' materials generally. He is also a contractor for artificial stone for
side-walks, bridges, foundations, curbs, etc. The capacity of his kilns is
about 130 barrels daily, all of which, owing to the long established reputa-
tion of the house, meets with a ready sale. His trade extends through
Western Texas and into Mexico ; his annual transactions reaching $80,000,
and with the growth of Texas and the gradual advancement of the city
of San Antonio, and Mr. Burns enterprise and progressive business policy,
will be materially advanced. He employs 18 hands in various capacities.
This establishment will compare favorably in every particular with any
similar one in the South, and his square, liberal dealing, is extending his
trade daily. Having years of experience and conducting his business in
its various details, upon principles of sound, mercantile integrity he
justly merits the credit, reputation and confidence he has acquired.

J. B. BELOHRADSKY & CO.—Proprietors San Antonio City Brewery,
The Best and Purest Beer in the Market; And So Acknowledged.
Political economists regard business, when classifying the different
branches, solely as to their reciprocal relation to society branches, which
exert a beneficial influence, occupy a ranking position, and in this pro-
gressive age, when enterprise garbs itself in the raiment of philanthrophy,
public opinion awards it due credit. Late statistics show that the brew-
ing of lager beer has exerted a most beneficial effect on the morals of the
United States, since it has become a national beverage, legitimately bor-
rowed from our slavonic and teutonic ancestors, the temperance cause
has derived greater assistance, than political agitation of a century could
bring about. The decrease of alcoholic manufacture since 1855, has been
at least 28 per cent. The increase of malt manufacture, over 69 per cent.
A comparative statistical exhibit, shows a percentage of about 83 per
cent. of a gain in the moral tone of the country. From this reasoning,
we feel justified in classing lager beer brewers, who make an honestly
pure product, as benefactors to their fellow-man. Even in his savage
primitive condition, man's instinct for stimulating beverages, developed
itself in the manufacture of various liquors—and since the days of the
Egyptian Ptolemay's, who were the first brewers from grain—through
the history of the various nationalities, from the worshipers of Odin,
Thor, Isis and Osyris, to the time of the "Nazarine," when civilization
received its first legitimate impulse, no beverage has equalled lagar beer—
in innocuous, health-giving qualities—lager beer seems to have been from
the earliest antiquity, the beverage that assimilated closest to the hygienic
necessities of man. It furnishes a stomachic tonic, free from the deleter-
ious effects of alcholic stimulants. It fulfills the scriptural injunction,