The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-14
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10th.
The governors ten subjects for legislation
are called the ten commandments.
To-day is the anniversary of the frost that
killed the fruit crop of 1881.
The house, (Texas egslature) has passed
a convict slave bill.
The ladies' Of Soledad street NJ. F. church
will hold festival at the church tonight
New Brauniels strawberries in market; 50
cents per quart.
81 told you So" says Col. B. d. in the
Express this morning.
A chill con carne factory is among the
contemplated enterprises of our city.
You can get a better dinner for Is cents
in San Antonio than in Austin for 50 cents.
| The manufacture of mesquite blocks for
pavements will soon be inaugura'ed here.
| The notice of the Volks-fest in another
place will be interesting to all delegates from
societies expec ing to participate.
Over S., 900 have been subscribed for the
Volks-fest, and it will be the great eaent OF
the year.
| The chapter of disasters caused by the
weather are not likely to be lessened one iota
| by the lamentations of Col. Blanton Duncan.
John Stappenbeck, the clerk at Hart
Browns store, is the lucky winner of $4,000 in
the Louisiana lottery.
| If you have not seen and heard Blind
Tom, by all means do SO. His playing is
wonderful.
The invitation to attend the Press Con-
yention has reached us. We will try TO be
there.
The Statesman goes for the Express
Austin correspondent, and literally settles him
and his blind asylum sensation.
| Mr.. Wiley, new addition to the San An
tonic bar, made his professional debut yeSter-
day, and scored success.
Schneider, who is jointly charged in the
Mccoy murder case, has been released upon
a $4,000 bond.
A postal card advises us to change the
address of the LIGHT to Mrs. Gov. Davis from
Grand Coteau, Louisiana, to Austin.
The frost will not come, we hope, but if
it does it will not be out Of the common run Of
| seasons.
Every class of workmen are kept busy in
| our city, and almost every carpenter and
mason and painter is boss; they all take con-
tracts.
Col. Blanton Duncan comes at us again
in editorial disguise in the mornings Express;
he regards the cold wave as God-send, no
doubt.
| -"BiITe," of the firm of "Billie & Joe,"
contends that he drove from Boerne to San
Antonio in less than three hours. tits aston
ishing how fast pair Of ponies will travel on a
road paved with stage robbers.
merce street shortly. The competitors are
Young & Arnold.
The Austin Statesman objects to a coast
| district with Galveston as a democratic sheet
anchor. because Galveston is uncertain polti-
cally. There is lottery look about the whole
state just now.
DIR. Menger has been called to attend
negro named Abrahams, who was found on the
Sunset track near the depot, with the right
foot injured. The strange part OF his story is
that he processes not to know how he was
hurt.
Weather permitting, the band of the 22nd
infantry under direction OF Mr.. J. I. Clarke,
will perform this afternoon at O'Clock, in
Travis park. A very attractive programme of
band music will be performed.
The Express fairly howls over the prose
cution of democratic ballot-box suffers in
South Carolina. No one can feel SO indig-
mt for the chivalry of South Carolina as the
copperhead who dates his birthplace quite to
the northward of the Palmetto state.
When the gamblers were before Judge
Noonan this morning it was apparent that
| some of the names were simply cognomens
more acquired than real. The Judge remarked
| that some of them were neither chaste nor ele-
CANT, and a reference to the list will confirm
the opinion.
In its criticism on ParSon Young's SER
mon the Freie Prasse says that education is
| about the only means of suppressing the evil
| Of gambling. The prussian empire suppressed
i, by force at Baden Baden. And now it is
| about to be suppressed by force at Monaco
There seems to be no lack of education in
| Germany and in Europe, yet force is the only
thing that will cure the gambling evil.
We have letter from Mr.. Walter Scott,
dated Ratio Blandford, Ontario, Canada,
April 10th. Mr.. Scott says he reached Calf
in three days and a half from San Antonio,
making II miles for every hour, including
soppages. The remains of Mr.. w. II. Moore
were found well preserved on arrival. Mr.
Scott says he changed cars seven times and