The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-09-20

This would give MIR. Blaine plurality
of $4,000.
The way to settle that question re-
garding carrying concealed weapons Is
to nominate men or demand pledges
from candidates for Representative who
will be in favor OF bill making the act
a misdemeanor, and the penalty a fine
OF imprisonment, or both, and then the
pistol will go with celebrity unlocked
for.
TnE receipts Of cotton in this market
at this time are not very large, and come
principally from those growers who
only raise few bales In the season, but
1t is noticeable that the number Of wag-
ons containing cotton are getting more
numerous every day, and thereby add
to the volume of business, which will
continue to grow until the business sea-
son is at its full height.
A NEW gold field has been discovered
in the Little Rocky mountain country,
on the Blackfeet Indian reservation, and
a number Of claims have been staked of
which pay from surface working, 1t Is
alleged, from SO to Sll per day. But
after all there is more average real yell
low gold in the rich farming lands Of
Texas than In these new fields, and 1t is
not so hard to get out, either.
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ALLuDING to the meetings ofworking-
men held here recently, in which the
leading speakers were lawyers, the Del
Rio Dot offers the following sensible adj
vice: "workingman. there are plenty
in your own ranks willing and compe-
tent to serve your interests in the form
alton of the laws, and to such your vote
and support belong. Place no conf
dence in the promises Of these profess
sional gents, for you will be deceived.
There were men at that San Antonio
meeting, who never did lick Of work
in their lives, and never intend to. And
is 1t such as these you desire to give
your vote? Do so; and go on olamorng
for justice, and olamor in vain, as you
have done heretofore"
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IS AN article under the head Of "Who
Succeeds the Rockport Transcript
says: "Generally 1t is not those who
have been wrapped In a mantle Of wealth
and luxury during their youth and even
arrived at the meridian of life surround
ed by splendor and magnifcence, with
out meeting an opposing current of adj
versity; without encouraging single
storm on the great ocean Of life. This
is not the class who make grand sue
cess Of life (; who rise to honor and in
scribe their names on the worlds bright
banner Of fame. These are those who
are usually deluded by favorable cir
oumstanoes and do not consider the mu-
liability of all human things, but deem
reverse an impossibility. When the
tide or prosperity which has hitherto
flowed in an uninterrupted stream, turns
against such character, 1t will prove
fatal wreck. The majority Of those who
have risen to eminence and written their
names on the glittering submits Of fame,
have usually encountered gigantic OBJ
stacles and fought many single-handed
battles with dark misfortune. They had
the spirit Of conquer in their breasts,
hence what appeared to be hindrances
were only stepping stones by which
they assembled to the realms of the great.
1t is pleasant to mediate upon the fu-
ture, and youthful minds, in peering
down the corridors of Time, generally
imagine every path strewn with flow
ers and every niche filed with sunshine.
But alas, how different when that future
becomes the present, and the present the
past"
The LIGHT has frequently alluded to
the fact that the place to spend the sum-
mer was in the Southern Texas cities,
and in a Washington letter to the Hous-
ton Post, the writer adds the following
on the subject: LET me tell just here
why cities and plains Of Western and
Central Texas are most delightful and
healthful even in the hottest days OF
summer time. The winds blow perpet-
ually from the South across Mexico.
They are desiccated by traversing
sandy, stony plains and the heated sides
of rock-ribboned mountains. The thirsti-
est winds kiss the plains Of Texas, east