The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-12-07
IEXAS NOIES.
Items UIes-ned From the State Press and
Comments Thereon

Comments Thereon
WILSON COUNTY. fence cutters de-
clare fences shall not be rebuilt
GoIiAp CoUNTY.-The Golad Guard Is n
good newspaper, and collects the news in its
county ... An effort is being made to raise
Sis 600 TO erect monument TO Colonel
Fshnin 90. \ thief broke into a dtu, store
and took $40 in cash and S7s worth Of pis-
tolls, knives etc.,. d. X. FAINT has purchased
1000 yearlings from Coleman Pasture com
pany, at $40 per head. Work on the col
ored Methods, church is progressing finely,
and il will be a nice building ... The goods
Of Benson Cot, at Perddo. were attached for
a debt OF $I4, go. d, Professor Brooks, who
has had 80 years experience, is in charge of
Goliad college which now has. 400 pupils 80.
Colonel W. +. Johnson, aged So, President OF
the Texas Veterans, is reported to be sick in
Mexico. ga great deal of hay has been
saved 80. Peaches plumbs and grapes do
well in Goliad.
HousToN.-The Age is A. ''dry as re-
mainder biscuit after voyage" so far as
local news is concerned. So. The pay roll of
the police for September and October
amounted SI,37I a.; that OF San Antonio for
the like period was probably ST. 600. 49,. The
| Missouri Pacific railroad has presented free
passes to the Bohemian club Of Houston to
St. Louis, and the club will accept the cour-
tesy. The club consists of u. L. McGaD,
President, ID. d. Bryan, Houston coreSpon-
dent Of the Galveston News, Hampton Cook,
city editor Of the Post, Z 2. Graves, city
editor Of the Galveston News, James G.
| Tracey and W. II. Coyle. I'VE hope the
shaking up and change Of scene will ,hAw the
brain OF the editor Of the Age, as well as i'm
plant some new ideas in his head ....
Attorney. General Templston has decided that
the bridge bonds are illegal The Attorney
General received letter from w. b. Filker,
Of Denver, making inquiries about II. J..
Labatt to which he replied: III. ]. Labatt
is citizen Of this State, resident OF Calves
ton and is member OF the Legislature and
it is likely you can put your hands on him
there" What has II. J. Labau been abou,
in Denver?)
DALLAs.-Bill Sterett, the parson- politician
editor OF the Dallas Times, whose head is
bound with red morocco, is still swapping and
snarling at the recent converts"--the Dallas
Herald, Houston Post and Galveston News
but his bark is worse than his bite When a
preacher sets up for politician he is more in
tolerant, illberal, venomous, malignant and
prosecuting than any other politician, and is
ap, to indulge in verbal nastiness also.
Brownlow, Kalloch and Bill Sterrett prove oui
assertion. The Times ridicules Henry Waiter.
asn and denounces General John B. Gordon
in fact, charges him with sinister motives, ant
this attack is in bad taste as we'll as illiheril
and unjust. S,erett says "San Antonio want,
aud needs branch of the lunatic asylum, y
but II the Dallas Times is to he taken as tn,
representative Of the brains and sanity Of her
population the city of Dallas ought to be en-
closed with wall and converted into a lunatit
asylum, ready filled. 80. There is great com
plant as to the quality of the gas-it gives
poor light and a smell which is not otter o
roses. II the Times is the gas factory, thu
compliant Of the citizens is we'll grounded :.
The salaries Of city officers for Novembe
amounted to $4,000, an increase Of $500.
Cotton was an average crop and has all beer
gathered. The average yield OF corn per acr,
was 90 bushels, apd of wheat IS bushels. E.
The theatrical criticism of the Times Is tn
concentrated essence of slang and vulgarsm
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