The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1883-01-13
LIGHT SPARKS.

OF ARAcs
The s,loonists have one third the city
council.
Commerce street should be paved with
wooden blocks
The norther arrived at about quarter past
eight O'Clock this morning.
Mr. Copeland proposes TO sue the Express
for libel. II won't pay.
There will be dance after the show. al
Jonas Garden Tomorrow nlght.
So MANI lawyers in the Thompson case that
somebody's soup is bound 10 be spoiled
Copeland takes his defeat hard. II he keeps
on running for mayor he will get used to it.
sheriff Mccall has done his full duty in try
ing to secure an impartial jury in the Thomp-
son case.
Three handsomely furnished rooms for
FOOT bri5re l-l3-2t
Remember the minstrel performance of
the Twinkling Star Minstres at Jonas Garden
tomorrow evening.
Judge Noonan holds court i'm the federal
court room, in the French building. The happy
family cage is not ready yet
Large platform spring wagon, horse and
wagon. also two-horse wagon, for sale at Geo.
Pearson's, % Soledad street. III
-.Fun. Fun. at Jonas Garden tomorrow
night. THE Twinkling Stars will shine out
lively at Jonas Garden tomorrow night
A mutual admiration party, on a small
scale was gotten up yesterday by the Express
over the completion of the California road.
The personal resemblance between Mayor
French and Gambetta is revived with the
prints of the likeness of the dead Frenchman.
That Ben Thompson has host of friends
who are ON the alert to aid him Is nothing TO his
,iscredit. The state has evidently some valu-
able friends also.
From the days of John .Glanton to those of
Rem Thompson, gaming table has been the
f,1I of all the terrible tragedies
penng in our city.
Judge Noonan has not provided accommo-
dation for the newspaper reporters. IL won
prevent a pen picture being taken OF the trial
of Ben Thompson.
Judges Mason and Callaghan were in the
court room yesterday. Judge NoOnan did not
Isk them 10 seats on the bench; an English
custom, we believe.
The dismantling of the old building on the
southwest corner of Navarro and Commerce
streets is complete. Its wonder now such an
old shell stood p at all.
There is IA remOrselesS public sentiment
that shares no pity for the living man-slayer or
respect for the memory of his dead victim
when they are both outlaws.
1t il. suggested that the jurisdiction of the
recorder he extended 10 cover all cases OF
trouble arising between school teachers and
other employees of the city. Good idea.
Bills are being introduced AZ fearful rate
in the Legislature. If they would stop and pass
iourii, they would earn the thanks of the peo-
pie.
Mr.. Tarleton states that the habeas corpus
was out of the question In the Price cas- as a
measure for immediate relief because of the
occupation of Judge Noonan in the Thompson
trial.
Judge Noonan better put the lawyers un-
der the some restraint as he does the jury in
the Thompson case, and keep newspaper men
ont of their way-a few rays OF LIGHT might
blind them.
The al torneys i'm the prosecution and de-
Tense in the Pen Thompson case may look very
beligerent at each other in the court room. but
tlIey 'smile" with each other after the court
adjOurns.
The two hundred jurymen who swore
themselves of the Ben Thompson jury will
feel quite agrieyed the last man of them--if the
newspapers don't convict Thompson and hang
him in the bargain.
-Geistinger furnishes another opportunity
| to convince our people that we need.an opera
house II we had house that would hold 1000
people we would get the entertainment at
| more reasonable figures.
| Two hundred citizens declared on oath that
| they had formed an opinion in the Thompson
| case, and yet if they had been asked TO sign a
| statement that a change OF venue was Jistl-
| liable they would have refused TO do so.
| An intelligent cOlOred man in some way got
into the special venre yesterday in the district
| court he was challenged and excused. If il
| wasn't for the matter of color there are num-
| Der of competent jurors who are seldom called
| oil--their color helps them out.
| Judge NoonOn ordered that the iurymen in
| the Thompson case should read no newspapers
during the trial. From the character of jurors
| selected,-the no-opiniOnno-newspape kind, -
| we believe a newspaper would be harmless, but
| AT the same time the order was a salutary one.
Just prior to the late city election, Captain
| Karber, first assistant city marshal, made two
| or three raids upon wel-knOwn gambling
houses. We hear nothing more Of this kind of
work. Did the Captain break up all the
gamblers in those raids or has the wind changed
| since the election.
| The talk i'm public school circles is all about
Miss Matthews and Mr.. Halbedl. Mr. III. is not
polite and has justly incurred the revenge OF
the lady assistant. The schools need TO be
| looked after more closely by the board. Halbed
| is also credited with helping Copeland out and
had pretentons to the Office of superintendent
Every good citizen is anxious that the law
be vindieited, and yet good citizens are apa-
thetic when they know that hot-beds of muir
der are maintained in the city by tacit consent
of the authorities. IL will be easier TO convict
the Ben ThompsOns when these nurseries OF
crime are suppressed.
The LIGHT is fet-that's evldent-and had il.
rays reached all parts of our county as IL doe.
| the city, all the competent jurors in the county
would have an opinion about the Thompson
| case. Hereafter, when a murder is committed
the press must be silent about the occurrence in
order TO secure a jury to try the murderer
otherwise let there be change of venue Il
| some other county where there is a cotlntr,
newspaper printed. The idea seems redicii
lous, but il is the gisi of on jury system.
/
Dwelling Fire.
Santiago YillaEueya's new one-story fVam,