The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-03
Wednes day, May 3. 'S2.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

THE undefiled elegance Of public morals IN
this country is shown in the congressional
BARGAINING in the contested election cases OF
Mississippi and Alabama. From Mississippi
the contestants were Lynch and Chalmers
and from Alabama Gen. Wheeler and Green
hacker Lowe. The proposition was tor re-
nublicans to unseat Gen. Wheeler and seat
Greenbacker Lowe on condition that green
hackers would unseat Gen. Chalmers and seat
Lynch. The rights of constituents, the lntes-
rity of elections the honor of the country, IN
dividual honesty, were not IN the question:
This is one of the mider specimens OF tha'
venality that disgraces this country and makes
a seat in an American congress bye woTd
and reproach in foreign lands.
SAKE, the poet, is herdins cattle. we see
If stated that he has made more money IN one
wear in cattle than in twenty-iour years IN
poetry. Fit Green lIalleck began lie as
poet, but after writing sixty lines about a
Greek tillibuster, and puff OF "kothchilos
and the Barngs," which made him an Ame'i-
can poet, he switched off to "lhe co"oh
trade and sugar line" Rogers, author OF
Italy, started bank first, and in his later
wears. deviated into the most melodious an"
delicious of poets. X. w. Emerson managed
to be born rich and settled down, when poy'
as a sage, philosopher and poet, and kept the
places till few days ago. Robert Turns neg
lected banking, and SO we find his great grand
daughter busting pews in church at Dunn
fries for a living. She should come to Amer
lea and permit subscription to be got up, or
let congress put her on the retired list
A NEW cause for the retirement of a. /.
Stewart & Co. has now got the public ear. 1t
is not brother IIilton's love of the lsraellte
that bounced them; nor is there any bounce.
On the contrary A. T. Stewart Co. want to
snend the remainder of their days in rejecting
on what becomes of man after he is taken TO
the grave yard. This seems appropriate IN
their case. Such is the alleged new cause.
The house. it declares, has been steadily
making money till it has enough. Brother
Hilton is merely that business man, never be-
fore discovered, who has got enough and who
some day expects to die. Put on that footing
the break up we think in good taste.
P.S. Maybe after all brother Hilton wouIc
only prefer that his retirement should be
ascribed to enough money than scant brains
A TERRIBLR, and apparently most cupable
disaster, amounting to great public calamity
has lust overtaken St. Louis. That devoted
CITY has been for some time engaged IN DIES
perate and doubtful war with the guerrilas
its gambling hells-the doubt arising from 1t
being unknown which side her "authorltles
are upon-and now these same munclpa
rulers, have, through neglect, permitted tn
draining sewer to break and inundate lare
part of the city. No less than IS blocks {
houses comprise the overlooked district. The
A,ors are covered with the noxlOus waters an
the sights are siCkening, women and Chlldre
living in rooms that are pools OF nauSeou
slime. A woman is described as found lynn
sick upon a mattress on a floor covered s.
lnCntS deep, anu H'C IhllNiSh "'O"' I'M ~
ing for bread. When relief came hall-irant
mothers, with infants in their arms, and 9TH
children about them, rushed upon the mel
bers Of the committee 10 get their first atte
ton. Endless heartrending instances OF su
ferinp are described, there being nearly
hundred families rendered destitute and hom
less. And this great calamity, though pr
cpitated by other and more immediate cause
seems to have resulted from the criminal ne
.lect Of the officials.
This municipal government OF St. Lo'
seems an ugly sCab on the face OF that f
CITY, When will the better elements OF It's 5
ciety get to the top and secure ii against
worst!
So far as Longfellow had any distinct
ligious creed, he was, like his brother, San
eli Lnngfellow' liberal Unitarian. He v
not a church-goer, but his family have usua
attended the College Chapel at Cambridge
The descendants of two English pilgrim
the Rev. leo. LothrOp and his young brot
Mark, intend to celebrate before long, by
family reunion, the 26Oth anniversary OF Ii
I.nding in America.