The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-03


they reply they'd as lief stand up, as
they have been sitting downtity-down
all day.
"Miralda" will be presented by the
dramatic club, next Tuesday evening.
The 9th cavalry string band played
at Uvalde last Wednesday night, and
by the happy smile on the face of the
chief when they returned, / concluded
that, "by cat'' they must have been
waited on first"
Look out for Karigan's ball, for the
benefit of the church.
Hospital Steward Martin soon leaves
for Mcintosh.
DR.. Koontz died at Speares' rancho
last Tuesday morning, of pneumonia.
He had come in from Devil river as
witness in the Piggott case.
Mr.. Charlie Geilhard, collector of
customs at Del Rio, gave us call yes
terday.
Call at Piggott's saloon and see how
nice Tommy looks since he cut off his
whiskers.
The hop at the courthouse on the
26th ult., was, to use the familiar, good
old words of the News tautologist,
"a very enjoyable affair."" and we hope
the one to be given tomorrow evening
will be "allee samee."
The courthouse in kinney's capitol,
through the kindness of the authorities,
is used for various purposes. For in.
stance:
Tonight, its walls echo to hymn-singing and
prayer, =
A scene which, in Bracket, is considered
quite rare!
Tomorrow, the judge has the seat Of the
pastor,
And Justice prevails, because Robinson's
An unfortunate pris'ner takes the place Of the
And strangers enquire ''is that Bartlett or !
Then you will learn that some travelling show,
Has permission to vend stale jokes it may
know.
Where the jury did sit, they'll place wings for ]
stage,
And drop curtain fall where Stewart does
rage.
IT'S eveningagan, there's dance in the hall,
The bar, dock and benches are piled 'gainst
the wall;
Justice avaunt let Terpsichore reign;
Tonight we're her subjects, may her rule
never wane.
Morning once more, hush! Death has the
sway,
Men silently stand in the light Of the day;
Round table on which corpse is supported.
"Found dead !" coroner's verdict, "suicidqs5I
tits reported.
Now ,, you !; see' my dear .oaz b sb5se listlg
FL! nti liz observed with the courthouse Al
am SO as to be about again, which
is strange, considering the severe at
tack received from the Sort Clark
News" What eve editor" wishes, +
now perceive, is, simply fattery,
similar to that "Semi. OCCASIONAL gave
him in the "Quill." That tickled him
so that he's been searching for him
(Semi) ever since; says he wants to
give him an editorial kiss "Semi',s
is sorry he said anything. Although
our Dave is responsible, it is evident
one of his intellectual (?) hangers-on
raked up that "rare, ripe" article, that
was intended to sound "taps" for Readk
juster. To the naked eye they re-
semble veracious, studious young gen.
llemen.
The fact of the matter is this: he is
vexed because l can secure items he
fails to obtain until they become stale;
these he kindly dubbs imaginative
items" He doubts my veracity, which
means that l lie. l thank him for -:
compliment til is far superior. to anyS
he can expect toTeceive. He has tw6'|
curious tales to unfold, Ergo" is one.
- is the other. Dave wags his
tails fiercely, at times, and don't mind
who he hits, and more times the tales
wag Dave. But then they consider
themselves waggish fellows anyway, so
let them wag and remember.
There's many hidden snag y
In the way of an amateur wag.
l content myself with the fact that
have accomplished miracle in work.
ing up ''ye editor" "He that wasi
dead is alive" as his paper proves. 1
thank him for donating The half = &