The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-07-19

| A MRS. RlBroN, bereft Of husband by the
Alexandria massacre of the 18th inst. and only
spared her child by the intervention OF kind
Providence, writes a heart-breaking letter to
her friends in St. Louis. Her little one was
carried into a harem for safety and that secur'
ity there found which fleets and armies could
not give. The impious superstition of ruiz
fan rabble hemmed her within its folds and
rendered her safe from the violators OF every
sanctity who glutted themselves with hendlsh
atrocity on every hand. Next day the child
was taken in disguise to its mother, herself
half-dead and bewailng her bereavement OF
husband and friends, for none returned besides.
And this harvest of blood is interest upon the
public debt of Egypt gathered through the in
strumentality of Christian guns, and drained
from Christian veins. When governments
come to settle their accounts there will be
fearful score to cancel
THE STAR ROUTE forum is again open for
the resumption of this celebrated judicial
wranele. On the 18th inst. the judge favored
the grand jury with charge that literally lett
the grand juror the mere minion OF His HONOR
the court. They were directed-the judge has
only the right to instruct. They were told
they were to find no indictment except where
a clear case was made out against the accused.
This is violation of all law. Grand jurors
have power to commit. Aprobabe cause Is
all that an indictment denotes 1t is the
province of petit juries to weigh, consider
and decide upon evidence. We are again
prompted to ask, what is the use OF grand
iuries? Why is the system preserved! When
depriyed of free will, as here, there is nothing
left to deprive them of. There is, to be sure
the secrecy Of their august proceedings which
are secrets only to the honest juror and the
honest public. The charge OF this Judge
to only practical argument against
the SYSTEM A few such judges should be
able to ride it down.
Washington, July I2.-Consressman Rob
ertson, of Louisiana, has sent letter 10 inc
postmaster general, in which he says the
louisiana Lottery Company has no legal ex-
istence. and asks if the postottice department
intends to permit an illegal institution to use
the mails. lie has not yet received an an
swer. IN. o. Times-Democrat.
We desire to sing the praises Of Congress-
man Robertson. This Louisiana iniamy has
injected all the states, and is everywhere
running abscess. covering everything with its
noxious waters. The United States supreme
court, in the late Mississippi lottery case. fixed
the status of this concern, and it only requires
the assent of Louisiana legislature, under the
constitution of 1879, to squelch it, But this
assent is not to be had. Every legislature has
its members elected with the funds of the no.
torious c. T. Howard. This man boosted in
1868, the date Of the charter, that if the lot
terv existed half its chartered term, the half OF
twenty five years, he would own the state. 1t
has lasted that time and he, or it, owns the
state. There is not newspaper will pub
lish at any price line against Its interests
all are subsidized. There is net breath of
oburgaton 10 be heard against its beautiful
morality. 1t simply lives and reigns.
Forty to fifty years ago fellow named
Gregory ran Louisiana state lottery. In 1888
the legislature abolished it, putting under ITS
feet its "vested rights" The law went into
operation January /, 1884, at which time the
attorney general opened his JUDICIAL batteries
against it and its works. The war which fol-
lowed ran over into the forties. AS late as
IS43 the lottery still had vitality enough to de-
fly the sheriff and push its business. This
Gregory was the boss of C. T. Howard. The
''pecular institution" OF to-day is the spawn
of the Gregory concern. Itsprohts are proba-
bly, $1,000 to $4,000 a day-all gorgeous