The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-31

-Pic-nics ARE budding.
Strawberries are ripe.
The fine weather brings out the ladies.
Pleasant weather brings pleasant thoughts.
If you get fooled tomorrow it's your own
fault.
To bond or not to bond-that's the ques-
ton.
Houston street is becoming the retail
street of the city.
AS the warm weather sets in, the thirst
for beer improves.
The "Postal Card in to-morrow's issue
will be literary gem.
. MIR. Lacoste has been to Houston, and
speaks in flowery terms of Houston's gardens.
Mr.. Geo Williamson is now sort of
cattle prince on the lower Rio Grande.
The China tree is in full bloom and adds
its fragrance to the gentle breeze.
The sanitary police should be put on now,
and not wait until summer.
Seven hundred dollars worth of fireworks
have been ordered for the volksfest.
Tomorrow will be Apr FOOLS day, and
the city expects every fool to do his duty.
The new state capital has becom fea-
ture in the news stand landscape.
The statement that smallpox is prevalent
at Laredo is authortatively denied.
Miss Katie Layer was the fortunate win
ner of the needlework tides ratified at Hart
& Browns.
Houston has not secured the work shops
yet, and it may not be too late for our citizens
to make an effort
"A committee is in the course of formation
to promote an entertainment for the sufferers
by the Mississippi floods.
The Rev. DR.. Lewenthal acknowledges
with thanks the receipt of $32 from the Is
raelites of Laredo for the Russian refugees
fund.
1T seems to be the settled conviction that
wood pavements are the correct thing for
streets.
BY any and all means see the Village Bar
Der Sunday evening. "Basso prophundo" is
an immense hit. "Bewach' er mir mein Sus-
chen dort."
The pageant celebration of the Volksfest
and fancy torch-light procession, with its
thousands Of colored lights will outchine every
thing ever seen here before.
The police should be instructed as to the
use of pistols in making arrests. A policeman
has no more right to shoot than any other in
dividual; his pistol is for his own defense.
Mr.. Walter Scott, our former Laredo cor
respondent has gone to Canada, in charge of
the remains of the late Mr.. Moore. Mr.. S.
will take notes of many things of interest to
the city, while away.
If the city has SIC, 900, and the property
owners pay two-thrds of the street improve
ment, then we can say that there will be ex-
pended over $Ioo, 1000 in street improvements
this year.
There will be an informal gathering at
New Brauniels tomorrow of the stockholders
of the new manufacturing enterprise. The
dam now being constructed across the Comal
will have no superior in this country.
If our readers want richness, let them
read our reporters account of the debating
club.
Judge NJ. G.. Anderson has returned from
Corpus Christi; he succeeded IN securing a
continuance Of the Charles Smith murder
case.
S. f. Bard, of Fulton, Kentucky, died
last evening at DIR, Dukes residence, below
the city, and will be buried to-day. The de-
ceased was 81 years of age.
Mr.. Alfred Ruhuke has instructed the
county clerk not to issue marriage license to
his brother Jacob, he being minor IS years
of age.
Mrs. Small's pupils will have pleasant
reunion this evening at her residence, on Ala
media street. The adult friends of the child
rem will be present.
Navarro street was blockaded to-day with
freight wagons. Nothing short of opening
street next to the river will relieve Commerce
street OF its troubles, either that or all whole
l. Al