The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-07-29


TmE Pleasanton Monitor says There
appears to be hitch in the committee
appointed TO prosecute the construction
of the San Antonio and Gulf railroad,
and Corpus Christi begins to loom up as
the terminal point on the Gulf II this
road is built to Corpus we feel certain
that both Oakville and Pleasanton can
secure 1t by proper effort, and just now
Is the accepted time. Let our people
come TO the front next Wednesday and
put up as they should, bearing in mind
that IT is the last chance that will ever
offer for us to secure road. We under
stand that about $4,000 is already
promised. $4,000 more and the right
of-way through the county will Assoc
the iron horse"
TnE Democrats down in the Seventh
district seem to have II pretty bad, II
the following resolution, passed ut the
Victoria convention, is any indication:
"Resolved, that the Democrats of this,
the Seventh Congressional district. owe
1t TO the Democratic party of the State
and to themselves TO redeem the district
from Its present unhappy position Of
being represented in Congress by n po-
litical nondescript who claims to be in
dependent, but always votes with our
enemies when he condescends to attend
to his duties and vote at all, and we call
upon all the Democrats in the district to
make all honorable efforts for the cleo
tion OF the nominee of this convention,
so that Texas may present In Congress
an unbroken front of Democratic repre-
sentatiyes."
THAT society for the prevention Of dis
ease to a community would find proflta-
BILE field at III Paso, judging from the
following item from the Times, of that
city: ave would respectfully call the
attention of the Chief of Police and
Health Officer Of the city to the fact that
on yesterday there were unloaded at the
cattle pens from the Texas Pacific train
IL head Of dead cattle, and that these
cattle, partly decomposed, as they were,
have been skinned and the meat dlstrlb-
uted among scores OF Mexican families;
that this diseased meat is now being
eaten all over FL Paso. While cholera
is approaching in one direction and yell
low fever is epidemic in another, every
precaution should be taken. This dis
eased meat is direct encouragement to
disease, and endangers the health of the
whole city. Negligence on the part of
officials is high type of crime
A sTREEr-cAR driver writes letter to
the New York Sun, in which he states
his case with great force. lie says;
working l6 hours a day, men are able
to make only five days In the week, or
$40; but working IL hours day at Sl.50,
they could work seven days and earn
$1,000, and then asks Where would be
our loss II he had signed the bill When
Governor Cleveland is sleeping in the
morning am at work. When he is at
tending to his duties during the day
am at work. When he goes to place
of amusement In the evening | am at
work, and when he retires to rest at
night l am still working. have little
girl five months old, and during my
working days | have never seen her
smile, never seen her dark blue eyes, and
never held her In my arms awake but
twice; and yet this is is Christian land.
Governor Cleveland's veto has con-
demned us TO life In which there is no
hope, no joy. and no chance for improve
ment.'
The New York Graphic. in an article
on Chicago advertisers. says; "The
Chicago merchants tax their ingenuity
to the uttermost to devise some new and
striking way Of advertising their goods.
One merchant there has turned his sign
over his store upside down. A clothing
house has secured the services Of a giant
out of museum TO stand on the side
walk and distribute handbills, besides
giving n Waltham watch to every one
who buys ST. worth of clothing. Anoth-
er store farther up the street announces
on its windows in large letters that
" strangers are safe here" whilea man
across the way has the shoes OF his Gus
toners BACKED by boy in uniform. A
firm of retail liquor dealers, who have
five or six stores in the town, have in
front Of each statue OF some celebrated
Scotchman, presumably nation of hard
drinkers, such as Scott, Burns, Sir Colin
Campbell, Robert Bruce, etc. These
statues were made by some local
soulptors, and are lifesize and well
executed
The Flushing, l.. L., Times was Re-
publican bolter, but Mr.. Blaine's letter
OF acceptance proved magnetic enough
to draw 1t back to its former utilization.
The Times says; at must be confessed
that we have looked for Mr.. Blaine's
letter with more Of curiosity than of
hope. But we have read it with an in
terest that eliminated In admiration.
enthusiasm and confidence. The more
closely 1t Is examined, the more care
iully Its points are reviewed, the more
wildly ones mind must be impressed
with the solidity of Blaine's statecraft.
1t differs widely from his Congressional
speeches and from his papers while in
the State department. 1t is broader and
less subtle, profounder and less adven-