The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-01-05

LIGHT for Christmas" says the Waco Exam
liner, sis worthy the praise it is receiving"
THE Waco Examiner predicts that the
special session will last 90 days and will not
have completed its work. In that event a
majority Of the law makers had better 90 off
and fall in the creek.
IT IS an open question il herd law, as q
proposed remedy for the fence cutting troubles,
would be found satisfactory to the stock inter
ests .; the western part Of the State. 1t would
change the entire system Of stock raising.
As a general thing the saloon business is
not numbered among the failures in business
circles, but in number Of Kansas towns late
ly, the publicans have gone to the wall with a
suddenness that is suggestive Of financial dis
aster beyond recovery.
TxE recent agitation Of the street and sewer
improvement, has developed the fact that
there are no mossbacks running for Aldermen.
Public opinion is in favor Of improvement and
progression, and the man that stands in the
way will get stepped on.
STATEMENT having been made that the
Worlds cotton exposition was in some man
ner under the control Of the Louisiana lottery,
Mr.. E. A. Burke, Director General, and the
Board Of Management denounce the state
ment as ridculously and UNANIMOUSLY false.
THE continuance Of cholera in Egypt is a
danger Of no small matter. Judge Forman,
Of the International tribunal at Cairo, gives
some startling figures, when he says the
deaths last summer are estimated from 65 600
to 10000. A rigid quarantine may conhne it
in Egypt.
THE building boom San Antonio most needs
at the present time is that of cottages. Rents
are altogether too high, and houses are too
scarce, there being scores Of applicants in
answer to an advertisement of house to rent.
The want Of houses drives many people away
from the city, because they find it impossible
to get suitable quarters.
The numerous business failures reported
every day from all over the country seem to
indicate that the times are close everywhere
But the general opinion Of men who are in
position to know, is that all the country really
needs is to be let alone, and business will
even itself up. Tariff tinkering by Congress
can be looked upon as a calamity.
THE less time wasted in flights oil oratory at
Austin this winter the better off the State
will be. Business is what the special session
OF the Legislature is called for, and it should
be attended to promptly and fairly There is
apolitical bonanza in store for the man who
can so shape legislation as to settle the
troubles now agitating the western part Of the
State.
''ir is an i'll wind that blows no good" says
the Bellville Standard, "and the latest report
from the seat Of war is that cattle have depre.
ciated in value in consequence OF the fence.
being destroyed. Now II they can only sue.
coed in making the butchers come down to
something like reasonable charges, the fence
CATERS will not be such bad set of fellows
after ALL"
THERE is an evident desire TO bring forth :
candidate against Governor Ireland this fall
and Peter Smith, Esq, Fort worth's Mayo
is being doomed quite loudly. Governor Ire
land is not as popular as he was few months
age. and has shown lack Of real official ca
paciiy, but It isa very open question If an,
one man or ring can get the nomination ava,
from him, ifhe desires 1t.