The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-15
AN EDITORS QUARREL.

The editor of an exchange relates
that he received 4 communication
from one John McGinnis denouncing
him in good round oaths for an out
rageous SANDER he had committed,
and notifying him to retract it by IL
O'Clock on Monday-the paper is a
semi-weekly-or he would club his
"blasted head off,"
He had never heard of John, nor OF
having committed such atrocity and
so called himself resolutely to arms,
determined not to be made to publish
an extra at IL m, Monday to eat
words he had not spoken, the alterna-
tive plainly being-Gght. Hence with
a six-shooter, repeating rifle and bowie,
he prepared for war, determined to
perish rather than make an apology
which the enemy said must be "as SER
vile as the attack was brutal"
Accordingly at IL on Monday, he
occupied the sanCtum as citadel and
awaited attack. Presently a man en-
tered mal-a-propos, an obsequlous in
truder, shullling up to the editorial
table-a man without martial bearing
or any terrifying features in his appear
anCe-but he astonished the editor by
announcing himselfas John McGinnis.
Well, the arsenal was not in request,
and John explained that it was the
"blasted head" of one Laragin he pro-
posed to damage, and the note
should have been addressed to
that spalpeen, while another Or
dering the editor to send his
popular paper to his house, the william
Laragin had got IN its place. Johns
name was entered as subscriber, apd
then the warriors "wet."
The temperance testimonial portrait of
.urs. Hayes still stands against the wall in the
green room at the white house, and is veri
liable white elephant on their hands. The
members of the temperance association claim
that they spent their $4,000 for it, and they
intend that il shall be hung in the white house.
The colossal frame of carved oak is so out of
proportion to all the rooms and wall spaces
in the mansion that there is no place to put
it, and the authorities are bothered to death by
the clamorng and suggesting members of the
association, who want it in the east room and
in every other place where it has no business
to be. Every one pokes fun at il and has
their joke upon the wine-Colored dress, the
punch bowls and jugs of the picture, and the
enormous carved grapes on the frame, but no
one suggests any practical relief from the di-
lemma Mrs. Hayes has been tipped against
the wall these three weeks and there she
seems likely to stand, the troops of sight
seers commenting unkindly on the principles
so unfortunately satirized by the artists, and
he president is still at 4 loss TO say where to
hang her.
Native Egyptians, whenever they save any.
money at all, are fond of burying it in the
.arth. Last August the Egyptian branch of
he Imperial Ottoman Bank attempted to
und savings bank system, and started it
10y opening small banks in Cairo and Alexan-
dria. 1t has just published report of the re-
suits of the undertaking, from which it appears
that the Alexandria bank has obtained fifty
two depositors and $1,000 in money, and the
bank at Cairo seventy depostors with deposits
of SII. 900 Recently there was large in
crease of business, and hope is strengthened
that the plan will succeed.