The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-22
Saturday, April 22. 'S2
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

DARWIN is dead.
GEN. BURT died at Saratoga yesterday
Gov. CRrrrENDEN has pardoned the Ford
boys for the killing of James.
NEW Chinese bill is going through con-
gress.
Jesse JAMES is the only great man Missouri
hos nroduced since Tom Benton died.
A TORNADO swept over a sparcely seo'eo
norton of Pennsylvania on the 10th, destroy
ing property and killing several persons
THE Indians have broken out in Arizona
and massacre of whites and Mexicans is re-
ported at San Carlos.
THE republicans Of Oregon have nominated
. state and congressional ticket and IN inc
nla,form bewail the veto of the Chinese DILL
Ar Mandal. in India, local king named
Theebow and his entire family, consisting OF
wife. children and fifty relatives, were put 10
death.
THE prohibitionists at Waco resoluted that
they would not support any candidate LOT gov
ernor or for the Legislature who is not prom
bitionist, and will insist upon all o'hef
candidates being moderately sober men.
Ron INCERsoLL has been caught plaguer-
ling in his recent lecture directed at aimaee'
Rob set forth theory in favor OF immortaii1y'
founded on the universally Of human aztec
ton. and the same thing is found in Buckle S
ESSAY upon Mills "Liberty.'
YESTERDAY band of robbers, put down as
mart of the James gang, boarded an east bound
train on the Texas Pacific, about I25 miles
vsst Of Dallas and robbed the Express mes
senper of $3.50. Four state rangers were
asleep on the train, and, on being awakened
opened fire on the retreating robbers VINO re-
turned the fire, peppering the express car.
TRACING of the tenth congressional dis
trict makes a very good representative OF a
land tarapin: Travis and Williamson counties
form the head; the neck is the connection be-
tween Travis and Blanco; Bexar forms the
fore legs. etc. The old story in the school
looks about the race between the Texan mare
and the tarapin is applicable; the Texan hare
has the best of the race to start with but old
..tarie" comes out winner in the end.
THE New York Times has interviewed the
three veterans Thurow Weed, Gen. James,
Watson Webb and Peter Cooper, with view
to learning the secret by which man may be
for nj
Times learned that it consisted in having
regular habits. Dat meal, milk and regular
living are what, it says, have done it-''though
Gen. Webb confesses to daily potation OF
pure Santa Cruz rum and water" We will
only supplement the Times report with the re-
mark that all the oat meal and milk that have
been got into the three venerables during the
last 90 years would not supply one of New
York's tenement houses week. What there
was they took very young. Gen. Webb used
70 live on Burgundy. Why he has come down
TO Santa Cruz rum, with water in it, is ques
ton which the Times local might have settled
himself upon for few minutes. The fact i:
the general has taken care of himself. He
never bruised about and got himself hurt ii
the ugly wars, as some generals do
The New York militia, in which thu
casualties were very small, was tn
field in which he exploited. The general
most conspicuous act of war was cowhidinl
lanes Gordon Bennett, the raw-boned
lan,hern-jawed Scotchman who had the i'm
pudence to publish ten times better Pape
than the big blanket New York Courier an
ENQUIRER at one tenth its cost. As for Thur
low Weed, nothing could be expected to XII
him. as long as the Knight Templars failed t,
get hold of him, after surviving the sledg
hammer partisan political strife which he lie
in the wars of the roses, Jackson and Clay
and of which he was in the thickest Goo
old Peter Cooper has used wealth Judiciousl
and avoided its abuses, and he has had the ac
vantage of always being an invalid. He ha
reaarded life as the theater OF duties to be pc
& rred and has done his best to fill its bi
II is doubtless ones duty 10 live and TO liz
Justly.