The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-26

Excellent Municipal Government - Bright
Prospects Of the Mexican National Rail-
way Col. Fullers Fine Management-A
Bird Catcher-FinIay, and other Gossip


Many bright ray from The LIGHT streams
hither into our atmosphere to interest us, and
illuminate on state and national questions,
and we consider the community fortunate
which has such fearless and outspoken
champion of right and honesty in local mat
tiers, and, while supporting strongly good off,
Gals, supplies conscience to schemers and
conspirators against the public veal.
This city has for many years possessed an
excellent city government. The mayor, Judge
Murphy, recently reelected, is lawyer, re-
tired from the practice of his profession. after
long and successful career. He is exception
ally we'll qualified by ability and experience to
watch over and serve the varied interests of
the city. He has changed the city's financial
status from a former Indebtedness of many
thousands to the condition of there being over
$1,000 in the treasury; greatly improved our
streets and enforced law, and secured good
order in our city. Our board of aldermen
comprise some of our most prominent mer-
chants and taxpayers, and it is not only their
pride, but their interest, to wisely legisate for
the city's interest
Frequent small private excursion parties
take trip nowadays from our city to LAM
pazas, in Mexico and beyond, and express on
their return their qualification at the mountain
views and landscape scenery there visible.
When the railway is completed to the an
Gent Aztec capital we shall all don our listers
and grasp our grip-sacks for the trip thither,
and shall probably enter the Halls of the
Montezumas with less difficulty, and receive a
rather different welcome than we did nigh two
score years ago.
The present superintendent of the road, Col.
Fuller, is pushing the construction most vigor-
ously and expects to reach Monterey by Sep
TENDER next. He has been ubiquitous and en-
ergetc in changes, reforms and retrenchments
since he took charge of the road, and while
his action has often displeased the deadheads
and parasites that always infest such corpo-
ration. A prominent railroad man informed
me that he considered his pecuniary interest
in the road benefited by Col. Fuller's APP
pointment. His brother-in-law, Mr.. o. S.
Ross, who, with his wife, has lately arrived
here from Pennsylvania, has accepted the po-
sition of assistant engineer of the Mexican
National railway, is qualified to make an ex-
cellent and efficient officer.
Mr.. G. B. Sennett, in the service of the
Smithsonian Institute, has been for several
weeks engaged here in making collection of
birds native to our locality, and several that
he has mounted are beautiful specimens and
show admirable workmanship. He will visit
San Antonio in few days.
Attorney Stanley WEIGH and Postmaster
Swisher have both just returned from Austin.
The former reports that city on the hill as be-
ing by stagnation GRATED to dusty nothing, "
and the latter's friends look on him as an in
valid, for whom hope still remaineth.
Mr.. Finlay, of Galveston, lately fitted from
Laredo homeward along the shore line, stop
ping here and there to see what food he could
pick up to feed his congressional ambition.
We don't think he overloaded his stomach
here. The next representative from this dis
trict will be Yves, Texas man, tariff man,
perhaps, republican. The democratic sheep
who should bleat forth Incidental protection
only" would be hurried to the shambles of de-
feat. ZYP
Corpus Christi, May 20, 1882.
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