The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-08-02

The common remark Of everyone who
visits this city is that no city in the State is
growing as rapidly as San Antonio.
THE public appreciates the LIGHT in its
new form, judging from the large additions
made to our subscription list the past few
days.
SENATOR VANCE, Of North Carolina, says
"rhat a close study Of the best newspapers
has taught him the art Of expressing himself
briefly and tersely, without repetition or cir
cumlocution."
SEVERAL Of the Arkansas editors, during
their late trip through this State, fell in love
with it, and are now trying to sell out with a
view of locating in Texas and the Palestine
News kindly invites them TO come along and
bring their knitting.
THE census of Egypt, just completed by Sir
Auckland Colnier, shows the entire population
to be 6,7oS,23o. OF these 3,3o3 1903 are
males. The population Of Cairo is 36S, 1903;
Of Alexandria and suburbs, 2oS,77 Of Port
Said, I6.s6oi of SueL, 1898; of Tanrah,
33,7a5; of Mansurah, 26,7S4 of Zagazg,
1906, and of Rosetta, 1861.
The Washington Critic asks; care there
any more American teams that would like to
60 over and beat the 'blarsted Hinglishmang ?
A lot of back-country squirrel hunters, with
their squirrel rifles, could beat the team that
went over last from this country. Scientific
appliances don't count when they come in
contact with keen eyes and hard horse sense"
THE St. Louis Globe Democrat says
President Arthur does well TO employ his
summer leisure, as he promises to d., in a
trip to the Yellowstone region. For that mat
ter, he can 60 to no part of the country in
vain. He will be cordially received every
where. The American people as a whole
honor the presidential office, whether they
are specially devoted to the man who fills it
at any given time or not. A run through
the South would pay Mr.. Arthur. Our pres
idents are too much inclined to slight that
part Of the country in their journeyings."
SUBURBAN papers assert that Eastern capi-
talists have been kept away from San Anto-
MO because owners OF property put too much
OF fictitious value on 1t, which statement, in
some instances, is true, but it must not be for
gotten that the great improvement now
going on in the city is done mainly by our own
citizens. Outsiders can get but faint idea Of
the progress being made, and while values
may look fictitious, yet they are not, as a gen
eral thing, much out Of the way. When home
capitalists invest large sums in city property,
and improve it with magnificent and costly
buildings, foreign capitalists will not be slow
to have the same confidence, and for that rea-
son we do not believe that any one seeking
ajudicious investment has been driven away
because Of the prices demanded.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Danville,
Illinois, News the following impressions
made by his visit to Texas "Teavine
Texarkana, we struck for the Lone Star. For
days, with locomotive speed, we have travelled,
yet Texas remains unseen. We have camped
upon Marshall's hill whirled through Pales-
tine and the timber land; looked out upon I'm.
limited pastures and seen ten thousand cattl,
and not hill; lunehed in the beautiful ant
en,erprising city Of Houston; wondered a
the growing greatness OF Galveston, tn,
Venice Of America, and bathed in the surf o
its surrounding gulf; ramPed the streets o
the capitali and have wandered among tn,
wonderful mixtures of ancient abodes snC
modern palaces, olden plazas and youthful