The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-06
Saturday, May 8. 1882.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

GEN. GRANT Is TO.
BILL LAMBERT denies that he was drunk in
San Antonio for three weeks.
THE legislature has adjourned, and the things
they did not do are greater than those they did
do.
BELMONT called Blaine bully and cow
ard, but that doesn't constitute him eth er one
or the other.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER has mold
fed his eccentric turnout so that it does not
excite comment
WHEN man resorts to a knock-down argu-
ment, he is no better than bully or bruiser;
and the argument is not touched.
A WASHINGTON special dispatch to the
Globe Democrat of the I'd, states that Gosling
is the dark horse for the marshalship in this
district.
THE closing hours of the Legislature were
characterized by confusion and wild attempts
to do things that ought to have been done in
soberer moments.
BRIDGES, of the Luling Signal. must have
gone to California, and left some lunatic to
edit his paper for him, judging by the rabid
article on Ex-Governor Davis.
THE suggestion that Roberts run as an in
dependent candidate for governor is as dis
tasteful to the faithful as the suggestion that
he become candidate before the democra-
tic convention.
REPRESENTATIVE WURZBACH has been
spoken of as candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, on a ticket with Throckmorton for
Governor, by the regulars. Wurzbach will
be put on to catch the German vote. The
bait is too small.
JUST as we predicted some time ago the pro-
fessorship of law in the state university is the
soft pillow prepared for the head Of the old al
calde in his retirement from public life. He will
turn up in the U. S. senate yet if his friends
don't watch him.
The Express puts it that the independent
move in Texas can only succeed as a demo-
IL
pendent. The trouble is that when little
fellow like the Express man tries to straddle
both sides, one of his legs fails to reach.
THE San Antonio papers advertise the
opening Of beket shop in that gambler-in'
tested city. The supreme court of errors OF
Cincinnati, October, 1881. decided that con-
tracts to buy or sell stocks, and to be per-
formed at future day, the parties to which
intent to settle the differences only, and not tc
deliver the stocks, are wager contracts, and
therefore are void.-[Galveston News.
Gambling has spread in our city to such ar
extent that it embraces every species of ths
article from church fair grab-bag to mer
chants exchange. 1t can be had in quality tt
suit all tastes; from the dead-falls to thu
aesthetic club. OF course there will come I
revulsion some day.
We, of course, may look for distress ant
panic throughout the country at the crisis o
the national bank question. Although Their
need not, and would not, if the Federal treas
ury were judiciously applied to its prevention
be any such consequence of the withdrawal O
the national bank notes from circulation a
panic or distress, yet the banks will manage
that there shall be, for that is bank nature
which is as unfailing as any nature known t.
creation. The national banks will seek t
satisfy the people that they can not get alon,
without them by doing the very thing, tina
ought, more than any other, to satisfy then
that they ought not to get along with them.
THE same avoirdupois Of animated natur
never probably before contained such a maya
zine of wonders as are put up in that ittl
parcel called Alex. H. Stephens of Georgi:
Mr.. Stephens has been for the last 90 year
ostentatiously shaking the earthly dust fror
his brogans, so as to step into his grave wit
clean feet. But all the while he has kept tn
world in agitation all the same, as if he neve
meant to leave it, but held an immortal fe
Simple in its affairs. No state ever possesse
such a speck of miracle as Georgia in Ii
eighty odd pounds of her son Aleck. No
with age, as we'll as sickness, on his hand
and with more literary work prospected tina
any young man could expect to live to do, M
Stepbens has announced that he is on bar
for governor of Georgia at the ensuing ele
ton. OF course Georgia will make the lit
fellow governor.