The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-08
SAN ANTONIO sIFTINGs.
The PIc,l rc,que artist to the Front
once More.
What Is Qrains and What Il Curl
ons
n thu Ola,n Alamo city.


| have taken tour through Medina, Ban
dera aud Bsxar counties. the two i1mcr
oues attending tho district court. The le'
suit Of the two weeks court nj Chstroville
gave IN my lsst, while that Of Bandera
can be told In one little word, nothing"
The dlstriot court here hha been busy
mos. Of the part week breaking toe mar,
monlal chains o, husband aud wife, and
vet they are not all ualislled, for
the docket 4 tomorrow 10
"ohunk fulln OF broken promises.
| will back tho Alamo city, against the
world Mt LARGE, except Fort Worth, for d.
yOFce casos; aud yet tnis IL no dirgface, for
people who cAnuot sgres Ia u city With -
msny natural advantages 40 Ban antonio
possesses should not be allowed 20 live TO-
geihsr, and our district Judge IL OF The same
opinion evdeutly.
Passing from matrimonial storms 30 rain
storms and cyclones | can possibly. give
some ! tile itCms that may prove ot Inter
est 10 church-going people, and they may
he able TO answer the kno.y question
ria ali PROFOUND. Nv little lone, Del Rio,
no aearly demolished az place could have
been. The town 10 D1ilt up mostly with
frame houses, aud they ase all now. the
Episcopalisus had worked hard aud faith
fully In building . beautiful little church,
aud IL was n pretty ono. On tha day OF the
cyclone, Bishop Robert w. u. Elliott mad
arrived in Del RIO 90 dedicate the new
church. The ladies had been very active In
decorating II and had Just left tho churah
when th. cyclone "struck the town. 10
fact, all The ladies had not gone from the
church, Tor Misses Cfessie and Flora
Fsulkp, orgsuigt md leader Of IN,
ohoir, were still there practiclng for
the services Of the Dext doy. They felt the
building giyins away and made rush Tor
I, ... leo, taa. 10, 10
may IL was fastened. They then ran TO the
back entrance and made their escape just
~ tho only church Ut Del Rio went crash
ing 10 ths ground. The young ladies made
their escape to feuce near by, aud there
the older sister stood holding 10 the fence
with one hand, while with the other she
tenderly held her sister, who had sNooptd
and tainted The nearest house was drug
store, some hundred yards or more distance,
Thich WAS rencScd siter hard struggle.
There the two loving sisters stood ana
watched the cruel wind Gud rain ruin COM
pletely everything connected With tho lit
lie church they hs1 worked 20 fsitnfuUy 20
build up. L.tlN dlhthey think when dec
Grating .GlIr .ItLlr Ci ytl that those same
flowers would bs ilg bursl wrestha. Now,
III that was Gods house, ne the little boy
once said, why oia Tie destroy ~" That
ia question FOR The good memo'rs OF tee
church 10 answer. cannot snsner IL my
self.
met ting an old friend VINO ng5
Just come in Iom Mexico.
he and have travelled overe goodly por-
tion OF that LAND Of God Snd liberty and
as there has bEen so much said recently
ahou. President Gonzales and General
Treyno, | invited The colonel 10 due with
me HI did 80, aud TO my delight he WAS
iuI o. news JUS auca as | have craved
for long time Having talked over CID
times among tho "greasers" While NJ dtn.
rsr and hearing hil Views On the sccisl
events OF that country, | seased myself
beside him IN The comfortable parlors VI
the Southern hoiel and tackled him In this
Colonel what do you think OF national
afIaro IN our ulster repubic2"
Well, Don Psrcho," says be, u THAT
President Gouz,les md his administration
bes been since IT, beginning aud 10 nov {
fraud. TO be frank end plain with you
think Gonzales and the majority II no, all
Of bis cabinet officers a sos of rogues bsud
Of robbers. who aroday By day sapplng tbe
lie blood fron th.igeziosn republic
the neopis sudrh.sp man to govern
"Gonzslss and his administration arc
simply tolerated, and that much respect IS
only shown him rom the simple fact that
his term is ust expiring"
Then you think he will not Do re-
elected ?' was my naturel Inquiry.
Most assuredly mol" and "A good deal OF
self confidence was thrown 10 hisasseriion.
The people have Stnely submitted 10 his
dogmatio ard domineering sway juet ~
long as they intend 10. In lact ii he had
another yesr to serve his neck wouid'n, DO
worth the collar that's round 1t "
saw the colonel vas getting interested
In his subject, 80 inst let him have the
rope, aud he continued.
THE people OF Mexico have Ind just
about rs many useless revolutions as they
want, and they WON'T have eny more, but
there one thing certain, IL President Con.
zales attempts 20 stay ia the Mexican white
house be won't live two minutes after he
90 declares himself Dlaz will be the next
president beyond any questions the people
know him and love him; they
have tried him oncees their Chief magls-
tratc and they want 10 better man 70 serve
them Gs president lie will be elected next
month and peaceably seated"
Hero my friend stopped and seemed to
be lost in deep thought, and | dplktc ~
Interrupt him, but he had not told nue. all
| wanted 70 know, 20 1 asked nim: Col
onel, how about the new law out there,
more commonly known as the Stamp
act?"
Ins moment he was oil ablaze with de-
nunciaiions of this latest fraud upon the
Mexican government. "Why," snys he,
"yOu know when you aud | were IN Mex
leo we could buy all the claret aud other
n .rmlesa wines for fifty cents quart; they
nov make Won pay twelve and one.half
cents extra for ell stgmpia. Think OF IL.
/ genty five per cent OF its valus. But
that law Ia in perfect keeping with the set
of robbers who control the Mexican nation.
Look at Gonzales and his "pcrpet-
n'l s ssDfls'' and q lh'y Monterey Slli
That IL nothing more than band of rob-
beers. The regular congress has long since
adjourned and this is a "called &c Nsion"
Of the presidents co-workers. They are
barely a quorum; just enough TO rhield |
their deviItrv behind the blind of law and |
justice They psss any and every kind OF
their pockets, and that's all they are there
for"
Fearing that my friend might say some
thing unkind OF harsh about our neighbor |
president brsnched of on another cub |
ect and asked him about how he thought |
the two political parties stood n our own |
country. Ae aaid he had been absent |
about three weeks aud during that time |
had not been able TO hear anything from |
his own people, but that he had never lost |
interest in the politics OF his etete
(rexas). He was OF the opin- |
ion that the man who beats John |
Ireland must get up early In the
morning, in fact, he had better sit up all |
night II he wants to get 10 see Ireland elect |
ed, for that will follow as surely as the con- |
vention meets. No man can beat him and
no man will try 1t.
The colonel says that among the dlstin.
guished men in Ssltillo while he was there
werc Colonel r. w. Pierce. Hon. Q. Epson
and Others. A little democratic caucus, 30 |
10 speak, was held there to zee who was
the Leading man for president. |
They adopted a platform, and copy