The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-27

Local Dots.
Judge Amos P. Foster, United States
postal agent, IS in the city.
The regular meeting of the Labor Union
will be held tonight at Strives hall.
DIR. F. Herff is better, and able to attend
to his duties.
There were only three deaths in our city
last week.
Don't have your printing "botched,"
when you can have neat work done at the
LIGHT Office.
We are sorry to learn that Mr.. W.. J..
Kingsbury has been confined to his bed
through illness.
Between sixty and seventy-hve dollars
was cleared by the Arbeiter Verein childrens'
masquerade.
M. G. Anderson, city recorder, returned
from Laredo on Saturday, and looks all the
better for his trip.
When the Express reporter exhausts the
"Maiors'' and "Colonels," will he come
down to the ''Captains" in his interviewing ?
Captain Ed. Stevens is getting on very
we'll and is considered out of danger. The
Captains friends talk of him for sheriff next
time.
-'Why is it," one friend asked another,
$50 many persons marry in Lent. son.
replied the interrogated, cts season OF
penance, and some prefer it in that way
"A little boy named Joe Maurer, at the
childrens masquerade last night, took the
character of bootblack, and made clear for
his shines $I.5o.
John Dellsite, the floor manager at the
childrens' masquerade last night, appeared
perfectly at home, and looked as happy as if
the father of fourteen.
Guadalupe Rodrigues has taken out a
building permit for the erection of lumber
dwelling on the south side Of San Fernando
street.
Mr.. Davis, of the Menger hotel, is up
again. Mr.. Davis has his hotel in very good
shape now. The next thing must be the en-
largement of the Menger SO that it may &C
commodate hundred more guests.
The meeting to organize the San Antonio
Debating Society will beheld in Justice Shields
Office tomorrow evening at o'clock, and it
is expected that Messrs. Copeland, Shields,
T. T. Martin, J. w. c. Love, Thorpe, Ryder
TAYLOR and other friends of the movement will
be present.
AT the San Antonio Mechanics and
Workingmen's Union meeting tonight, at
Struve's hall, two important questions will be
discussed. First, motion to amend the pre-
amble and bylaws; second, a resolution of
respect to the late IIonore Grenet.
More Interviews.
The Express is doing the public service
in exposing the views of certain of our citi-
zens. In Sundays issue we find what pur-
ports to be the expressed opinions of Maj.
Wickes, Maj Adams, Col. Breckenridge, VIM.
Quirk, b. Oppenheimer & Co., and Mr.. JOS.
+. Thornton. From the substance of these
interviews it would appear that they were
gotten up more to electoneer for the Gulf
railroad bond swindle compromise than to
elicit valuable information in regard to street
Improvement. From the replies on this ques-
ton we should Judge that these gentlemen
felt very bad because the city was only being
robbed out of $4,000. Maj. Wickes is
made to say, for instance, sit should have
been paid long ago." If it had been paid
long ago, the citizens of San Antonio would
have been indentured as poems to a lot Of I'M
scrupulous Spectators who have used the ma
chnery of the courts to enforce an unjust,
dishonest, rascally swindling piece of public
robbery upon the taxpayers Of our city.
A North Texas Republican.
This morning we had the pleasure of call
from Col. E. w. Morton, of Fort Worth,
prominent business man and leading repub
lcan of north Texas. The colonel is also
owner of the famous grindstone quarries in
that section. He has been in the city some
days and expresses himself delighted with it.
From Col. M. we learn that in his part of
the state the anti-bourbon movement means
business that the progressive men of both