The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-01
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENT.


Sarah Bernhardt is seriously ill.
Crops in Virginia are in good condition.
Judge Ireland spoke at Seguin yesterday.
Confederate bonds are being purchased by
brokers.
Turkey and Greece will again war with
each other.
Three new cases of yellow fever are reported
from Pensacola.
]. B. ID. Young lost $2,o and w. 7. Lytle
$500 by fire in Au tin.
Three convicts escaped at Uvalde. Three
others were wounded by guards.
X. IL. Adams & Co., New York, manufac-
turers, have failed for $Ioo, 900.
The report that Arab is suing for reace is
denied. English officers study lying as fine
art.
tx -Confederates Of Williamson county have
appointed committee to select a place for
meeting.
PRISONERS in the Dallas Jail wanted to escape
yesterday. but didn't have the courage to face
revolver.
DeLesseps has refused banquet at Paris.
he said he and his ditch would remain aloof
from politics.
Geo. c. Sabell was nominated to be con.
gresham by reclamation by the convention at
Martinsville, Va.
Sixty new cases and three deaths are r.
ported for the last "a hours in Brownsville. In
Matamoras there were six deaths.
The Egyptian garrison has been.remoyed
from Fort Gileh, and their troops are intrencb-
opposite the waterworks, near Alexandria.
Gov. Roberts has written to the secretary of
state urging the including of co-operative
quarantine regulations in the treaty with Mex
Senator Terrell has been renominated bv
| tee Georgetown democratic senatorial conven-
ton, for Williamson, Travis and Burnet conn
ties.
Sufferers by the food in Tom Green county
are excited and fearful no longer. The waters
have subsidized and relief committees are at
work.
Iowa has 3o,ooo,ooo cattle, Missouri a.
600, COO and Texas 100000. The proper
ton OF slx'shooters is somewhat larger in ia
vor Of Texas.
The cotton season Of 1882 was ended in
Galveston Yesterday. The receipts were 49,
SOL, something less than the CSC, 727 bales re-
| ceived the previous season.
Gov. Ortiz, Of Sonora, is to be superseded
by Gen. Carlo, who has 500 soldiers with him
to enforce his authority. Another Mexican
revolution is therefore considered imminent
The charters of two marriage associations
were fined At Austin yesterday. Marriage in
Surance seems to have seized on the popular
mind to nearly the extent death-rattle insur-
ance did in Pennsylvania.
Austin Statesman: The San Antonio LIGHT
was more earnest in the advocacy of Mr.. Up-
son before the meeting of the convention than
was the Express. The LIGHT now makes any
amount OF iass over his defeat. and the aues-
ton is, does the Express get all its inspiration
from the LIGHT? 1t looks that way.
The bald hcaded hornet who runs the pbos-
Phorus and baked beans column of the Texas
Post alleges that Davis has no ground of hone
for congress except the supposition that Upson
may announce himself an independent candi-
date. The bald-headed hornet aforesaid win
learn his mistake when it may be too late to
make amends.
Query?
Why will the stars in the American FLAG ont
live the emblems of England, France, Iceland
and Scotland?
The Rose Of England" will fade and fall.
The Lily OF France from its stem must