San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 147, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 16, 1890 Page: 2 of 8
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WEDNESDAY JULY 16 1890.
The encampment is a thing of the
past and it has not been without
good results to this city that the state
militia have camped here for two
weeks past. The next lime they
pitch their tents in the shade on the
banks of the Ban Antonio river may
it be for a two weeks encampment
and a good look at the old Alamo
city.
The federal elections bill is not so
certain of passing as the tariff and
silver bills. There are many republi-
can senators who do not fully endorse
the action of the house in its legisla-
tion on this matter. They fear a
reign of terror and intimidation as
the result and gravely doubt the pro-
priety of inviting it. If no determined
movement is made for the passage of
this bill through the senate congress
will probably adj "’-n within the
next thirty days.
The appalling disaster recorded in
the dispatches of yesterday as oc-
curring on Lake Pepin Minnesota
taken in connection with the reports
of disaster at Bt. Paul cast a gloom
not only over Minnesota but the en-
tire country. Here are over two
hundred people within an area of
one hundred miles diameter sudden-
ly hurried out of existance by a wind
storm which leaves other hund-
reds maimed and vast property
destroyed. This is however but one
among so many similar records that
the press has chronicled within a
few weeks. No part of the country
seems to be exempt unless it be
Southwest Texas and the destroyer
has come much too near us here for
perfect security to be felt. This year
eclipses ail farmer ones in its tables
of horrors and loss of life and the end
is not yet.
The timely warnings that have
been uttered again and again by the
wisdom of the press and the politi-
cians of Texas cautioning and be-
seeching the people to pause in the
insane rush to destroy values in
Texas by placing men hostile to im-
provements at the head of state
affairs has not had nor is it likely to
have any efiect. The democrats of
Texas are like a huge drove of native
cattle on the stampede and there are
not good cow boys enough in the party
to head them off and turn them.
Cook’s pony itself would stampede
them if nothing else would for the
great mass of stampeders would die
sooner than let him head them off.
Democratic unwisdom in Texas never
was more apparent than In this cam-
paign. Hogg has played his game
with great cunning and has shown
an intimate knowledge of the calibre
of the rank and file of tbe Texas de-
mocracy. It is the camnaign of the
demagogues banking oh the ignor-
ance of the democratic masses.
The nomination of Hogg as Gov-
ernor of Texas seems a certainty. The
returns received from the several
counties holding conventions to date
afford no hope for escape from such a
disaster. The consequences to the
state of such a result cannot be even
approximated. The insane crusade
against railroads which has its culmi-
nation in this rush for Hogg’s nomi.
nation may naturally be expected
to carry with it the nomination of a
state legislature upon the same lines
of policy. This will make the state
the mere creature ot prejudice and ig-
norance and the legislature may be
expected to place upon the statute
books any laws the most impractic-
ticable and ruinous that will be sug-
gested oy the irresponsible leaders of
that body. There is no hope for
Texas for two years to come and this
hopelessness is the result of her over-
whelming democratic majority.
There is not a town or county or
locality in Southwest Texas through
which the San Antonio and Aransas
Pass railway runs that will not learn
with profound regret of the necessity
which has forced that road into the
hands of a receiver. It has done all
that any road could do to bear up
against the pressure ot circumstances
and the disabilities attending lack of
capital and now goes into the
bands of a receiver to protect all its
creditors and preserve its property
from being destroyed and alienated
through needless litigation. The
Light extends its most hearty sym-
pathy to the road under the cloud
now temporarily resting upon it. and
is not without hope that a few months
at farthest will so determine matters
as to return it to its old control with
stronger financial backing than it has
yet been able to command.
A belt line with electr-ic motors is
very much needed in fact becomes
an iadispeusible thing next Septem-
ber. The thousands that will attend
the fair cannot be accomodated by a
rapid transit line even should it be
built. A rapid transit line and a belt
line to theB. A. &A. P. depot with
the efficient service of the Aransas
Pass road would let us out of the
woods to a very large extent. The
running of the S. A. P. road to the
heart of the city would be still better.
Looking-Glasses.
New York Ledger.
Bhakspeare has been hauled over
the coals by some of his critics for put-
ting the following words into the
mouth of Richard III.:
Shine out. fair sun till I have bought a
g ass.
That I may see my shadow as I pass.
They say the passage involves an
anachronism none but metal mirrors
having been known in the fifteenth
century. Peshaps the critics are
right; perhaps not. It is quite cer-
tain that there were glass windows in
England as early as the close of the
seventh century lor the Venerable
Bede mentions them as having been
put into a monastery—that of We-
armouth if we remember aright. If
sheet glass was used for lighting
purposes why not with some opaque
body behind it as a reflector of the
“human face and form devine?”
Shakspeare certainly has probability
on his side—but your com mentator is
nothing if hedoes not carp and doubt.
Young ladies of fashion and gentle-
men of ditto can you conceive of a
time when the world was mirrorless?
What would you do without the sil-
vered glass that enables vou to wor-
ship your own images? How ladies
could you regulate your bangs and
Psyche knots? And you lady-killers
—devastators of soft hearts and turn-
ers of soft heads—how could you shape
and train your whiskers into winglets
(Cupid's of course) without the aid
of a mirror? Happy age that sees it-
self “double swan and shadow.”
We dare not alter the text of the quo-
tation or we might say goose and
shadow.
The More Probable Story.
Dry Goods Chronicle.
Politician. Talk about enthusiasm.
Why every time we raised our hats
tbe band struck up!
Man in the crowd. Guess it must
have been the hat band wasn’t It?
The Crowley concern on Soledad
street in its references to the legiti-
mate news journals of this city re-
minds one of the “Luck of Roaring
Camp” who in his new born strange-
ness laid hold of the miner’s finger
only to wring from him the surprized
expression” Wrastlod with my finger!
the Little Cuss! Wrastled with my
finger.” Keep on wrastllng Mr.
Crowley.
The hotter the weather and the
harder bis boss rushes him the more
noise does the colored brother make.
Any one doubting the truthfulness of
this observation can sample the per-
iodical noise that lingers like an
aroma of progress around that pav-
ing work on Commerce street.
—Our specialties — Seth Thomas
clocks Elgin and Wat ham watches.
Bell Bros. Commerce street. 8-14-tf
The Skeleton Market.
From the Boston Herald.
There appears to be something
wrong wltb the human skeleton mar-
ket. The medical department of
the army has bad a contract
with a New York firm since 1887 for
supplying 150 skeletons at specified
times. The firm secured the contract
by bidding against three other firms
in this country each proposing to fur-
nish the skeletons required for about
tbe same price showing that a rate
and perhaps a combine existed even
in so uncanny a traffic. The firm
some months ago requested and ob-
tained an extension of time in deliv-
ery of the skeletons. Now they have
asked that the price paid by the gov-
ernment be increased basing the re-
quest on no more definite ground
than “certain exigencies of the skele-
ton market.” The matter was re-
ferred to the second comptroller and
that official decides that the request
can not be granted; that the contrac-
tor should not have the advantage
over competitors whose prices origin-
ally were higher than the contract
figure. The firm have seventy-five
skeletons lemaining to be delivered.
4®“Bear in mind that Frank J.
Beisel keeps builders* hardware and
lumber at the International and
Great Northern depot. tf
SPECIAL NOTICES.
DR. STARNES.
After July Bth will be corner Hous-
ton and Navarro streets up stairs.
7-5-lm
Death.
Death to screw worms.
Death to cutting ants.
Death to roaches.
Death to mosquitos.
Ragland & Co. City Drug Store.
Ernest Kueliner
String Band will furnish good music
or balls parties and picnics. Leave or-
ders at 318 corner Pecos and Durango
streets or Francisco Garza. 513 Concho
street. 7-7-1 t
Preston’s" Hed-Ake."
P. B. Bishop ot‘ 421 Ave. E San Antonio
says: “Enroll my name among the many
who have been relieved by your wonderful
remedy. I have been suffering for over twen-
ty years. It relieved me in twenty minutes.
I shall never be without a bottle.’’ Foi sale
by all druggists 50c.
The State of Texas County of Bexar.
County Court in Matters of Probate.
To July term 1990.
The State of Texas to all persons inter-
ested in the Administration of the Estate
of P. 11. Ward deceased. D. Sullivan
Administrator of the Estate of P. H.
Ward deceased has tiled his Final Ac-
count in the County Court of Bexar
County which will be acted on at the
July Term. A. I).. 1890 of said Court at
the Court House thereof in the Citv of
San Antonio after this notice shall have
been duly published for twenty (20) days
in some new spaper published in Bexar
County Texas at which time all persons
interested in said estate may appear and
makeobjections thereto if they see proper.
—'— WITNESS. Thad.W. Smith.
( r s I Clerk of the County Court of
( ‘■ j Bexar County and Seal of
— — said Court tit my office in
San Antonio this 28th day of June A. D.
1890. Thad. W. Smith
Clerk County Court Bexar County.
Came to hand June 28 A. D. 1890 and
publication ordered to be made in the
Sax Antonio Light.
T. P. McCall
Sheriff Bexar County;
By W. D. Druse
A CALL
For Republican County Convention.
In accordance with the published call
for a State Republican Convention to
assemble in San Antonio on the 3rd day of
September next the Republicans of Bexar
county are requested to meet in their sev-
eral justice’* precincts and elect delegates
to a county convention to assemble at
Mission Garden on the 30th day of August
to elect delegates to the State convention
a county chairman and committee and
do such other business as may properly
be brought before them.
The primary meetings to elect delegates
to said convention for precinct No. 1 will
be held on August 23rd at Mission garden
at 8:30 p. m. The republicans of the seven
remaining justice's precincts are request-
ed to meet at thefr respective justice's
precincts on the same day (August 23rd)
and elect delegates to said convention.
The basis of representation shall be ap-
portioned anwig the several justice’s
precincts in the ratio of 100 delegates to
justice's precinct No. 1 embracing the
city of San Antonio and fifty delegates to
the country precincts.
All calls heretofore issued and pub-
lished are hereby rescinded.
T. T. Vander Hoeven
Chin. Rep. Ex. Com. Bexar Co.
San Antonio July 11.1890.
Mutou Theatre
The Gold Mine ot Texas
0. SHACKLET PROPRIETOR
The Finest Variety Theatre
in the Southwest.
Seating Capacity 1000
Keeps the best order Sells the best
refreshments and employs only the
best talent.
West End Rapid Transit Line.
In order to accommodate tbe work-
men at West End the Rapid Transit
train of the West End Town com-
pany will leave an hour earlier than
heretofore. The first train will leave
for West End at 7 o’clock a. m. in-
stead of 8 o’clock as heretofore from
the corner ot Acequia and Houston
streets. Last train for Transit travel
for return to city leaves at 6 p. m.
CORPUS CHRISTI
and
DEEP WATER! -:-
VIA
Ropes Pass the big Dredge Boat Josephine is plowing her
way through Mustang Island bound for the
Gulf of Mexico.
Making Corpus Christi the Future Deep Water Port.
It will make Corpus Christi
*
THE LARGEST SEA PORT IN THE SOUTH
PIIT has man y other attractions besides Deep Water
DU I Among these are:
i—lts noble bluffs rising 40 feet out of the water _of the bay
2 —lts magnificent stretch of Bay comprising 150 square
miles of dancing waves. Corpus Christi Bay is the
deepest Bay west of Mobile.
3—Fishing turtling oystering hunting salt water bathing
and sailing.
4 —Magnificent water views.
s—The5 —The finest climate on earth.
6—The most remarkable health resort known. Deaths from
diseases among white population
ONLY 8 PER 1000
This surpasses the most favored health resort in the
world and makes Corpus Christi the best sanitarium in
the South.
so w pbices m jom 10 of
We are holding them down all we possibly can.
For Water fronts Bay fronts Gulf fronts Town lots
Bluff lots Residences Farms etc
Address
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THE DIRECTIILINE TO
MEXICO VIA LAREDO.
The “CANNON BALL” Train for St. Louis Resumed. Pullman
Buffet Sleepers without change"between
SAN ANTONIO AND ST. LOUIS.
Train leaving San Antonio at 5:53 p. m. has through Sleeper for St. JLouls'ovia. Iron Moun3
tain Route; Also for Kansas City via Denison. □
Train leaving San Antonio at 11:10 a. m. has sleeper to Laredo connecting 'at Laredo with
Mexican National R. R. for City of Mexico.
Trains Leaving San Antonio at a. m.: makes through connections for Shreveport'
Memphis St. Louis and beyond.
J. 8. McNAMARA Ticket Agent G. H. WOODRUFF
No. 8 W. Commerce St. San Antonio Tex. Ticket Agent I. &G. N. Depot S. A.
J. E. GALBRAITH D. J. PRICE
Traffic Manager A. G. P. ST. A..
SAN ABTONIO & ARANSAS PASS R. B.
MISSION ROUTE
Through tickets to all points East and North. Tickett to
Key West and New York via. Mallory Line. Baggage
checked through avoiding transfer at at Galveston. Steam-
ship tickets to and from Europe by all lines. Through Ex-
press East leaves 8:45 a. m. For tickets rates and all in-
formation apply to
R. W. ANDREWS MILTON EVERETT
Asst. Genl. Passenger Agt Ticket Agent Kampman Building
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