The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-21
ly as solidly Republican as Texas is


ly as soldly Republican as Texas is
Democratic
TfK Senate Of the United States will
be Republican at all events since the
election Of John A. Logan from Illinois,
and the Democratic party win hardly
recover from the grand defeat they ex-
perience In the Thirty-fourth district Of
that State, which also extnguished Mr..
Morrison, MIR. Carter Harrison and other
lesser lights OF the party.
TIM LfGnT has received an invitation
to attend the complimentary ball to be
given to the Houston Light Guard by
the citizens Of that city, at the Cotton
Exchange, this, Thursday, evening. The
Light Guard won their honors fairly.
and are entitled to many compliments
in consequence, ms the champion milf
tary company Of the United States.
The order excluding cattlemcn from
the Indian Territory, few weeks ago,
has never been enforced, although the
time allowed has elapsed, and the Okla
homa boomers say that If the President
does not bounce the cattle kings after n
reasonable time they Will claim the
same privilege and again endcayor to
enter the territory. The boomers have
as much right there as the cattlemen.
TVS honest granger In Illinois Ia max
ing the acquaintance Of the locusts. In
some parts Of Texas the grasshopper is
said to be at work. while In kansas II
worm is going for the wheat fields, and
In Indiana the Ilcssian fly IL reported at
work. These rumors are much like the
reports regarding the peach crop, which
in the East Is regularly killed every sea-
son, but the supply il equal to the de-
mand when the fruit ia ready to be gath
cred.
"ImE principal ground for not antici-
pating cholera In America this year"
SAYS the Dallas Herald, "is the faot that
the disease last season was only virulent
In one or two points of Europe. Had 1t
been epidemic and ravaged all sections
we could hardly have avoided 1t this
year in the United States, but az It ia
the general scare in America seems to
us to be unfounded. If American cities
will clean up and 'fumigate, II looks to
us from all these best OF reasons that no
epidemic need be at all feared or antci-
pated."
BY voi SO for the $4,000 bond propo-
sition, no increased burden Of taxation
ia incurred. The city is now paying to
the school fund something over 5000 n
year interest on money borrowed from
that fund. and 1t is proposed to use that
interest Ms the basis for the payment Of
the bonds to he voted, as the present rate
Of assessment is sufficient to run the
schools The accommodations are need
ed, and needed badly, and there IL no
great need of arguing the question to any
voter who believes in progress and en-
lightenment.
TuE Texas Democrat hears and reads
about how the country IL to be saved by
substituting Democrats for Republicans
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the fact from experience. An occasional
postmaster has been put in place of
some Radical who wanted to resign, but
the Offices are practically the same az
they were before the election, and the
salaries are being drawn with great reg
ularity by the offensive partisans, and
no wonder the worshippers of jackson
ask what was the good of that $4,000
Democratic mkiority and the '1l9 guns
that were fired in honor Of Dir. Glove
land
TuI san Angelo Times Enterprise
says: The contract has been let for the
grading Of 20 miles OF the San Antonio
and Aransns Pass railroad, from San
Antonio to Calaveras. The construction
of this road gives good prospect of the
early extension of the line from San An.
tonic to the northwest, at least to n
connection with the Texas and Pacific.
1t would be inconvenient for such road
to miss San Angelo and Colorado City.
with IL convenient outlet to the sea at
] NlHNhhNs s0ul luAOHlb W III ne ullNlOUh 10
recover the trade of this section, which
has increased twenty-fold since it was
directed to the Texas and Pacific road
The number Of days during which the
people of West Texas must seek an out.
let to the sea by way of Northern ports
is growing beautifully less."
A WASHINGTON special to the New
York Sun gives the following bit of gos.
sip about the White House: Mis-,
Cleyeland's return to resume her plac,
MS mistress of the White House is moi
likely for some time, even II she returns
ut all. Her views regarding the use o
wines and liquors are said not to be Ia,
Presidents views. While she did moi
seriously object to wine at official din
ners, she stood for strict temperance or
all other occasions. This, it is under
stood, was the understanding between
Misc Cleveland and her brother on hei
coming into the White House. TO II
she innexibly adheres, and departures
from 1t are said to be the reasops f,i