The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-05

THK petition to the City Council,
signed by large number Of business
men and property owners, is the first
practical movement towards the sscur-
ing OF sewerage, and II the committee
to whom the matter was referred handle
1t promptly and thoroughly, there will
be no trouble in carrying n proposition
of the kind by a vote Of the people. A
measure that promises a return for the
investment il all that ia required.
f1nE New orleans exposition should
be continued through the fall and win
ter, Texas would be the gamer in hun
dreds ofinmigrants This was cotton
exposition. but Kansas, Nebraska ana
the Great Northwest made displays
that lett it an open question Of whether
cotton or corn was King. But at any
rate the exhibits are q good investment
and If after the summer season the oI-
position should reopen, all the South
west would be benefited.
TiK Dallas Democrat wants TO know:
Lets see Has anybody heard Of Web
Flanagan. or Jack Evans, or Garrison,
or DeGress. or Mckee, or Tracy. or amy
other Of the Republican Olllce-holders IN
Texas being requested to take a walk ?
Miss Ada sweet, IN Intelligent. efficient
young woman. holding the position Of
pension agent nj Chicago, can be re-
quested to resiln, but has anything
been said to either Of the parties above
mentioned on the subject -
TIr last Confederate soldier to leave
Richmond after the surrender, ! met
one day this week, says n Philadelphia
| Times correspondents lie Is nm APP
praiscr in the New York Customhousc
and n Democrat. His name is Major
william Hancock Clark, lie was with
Colonel Tom Ochiltree. who was with
| him In the Confederate army. and In the
same detail that was left 10 blow up the
ordnance stores and set fire to the sup
plies left in Richmond.
MIS- who year ago were bitter
against a system Of sewerage in san An
tonic. are earnest advocates Of 1t now.
This. Of course. l. natural People have
to be educated up to many things, and
because San Antonio, as u village, did
not need the sewers, is no reason it as a
city should do without them. But the
proposition when submitted should he
for half million dollars, and include
the much needed street improvements.
A healthy and beautiful city can only
be had by the expenditure OF heaps Of
money. Public improvements are not
natural and do not grow Of their own
account,
TuE Kerens Light says; "San An
tonic people seem to think that they
will need no city prison. She will soon
rival pronigate and sinful Fort Worth Il
she gets too lax on the evil doer. why
do not the Light and Express CON,
down on crimo In their midst as tn,
Waco Examiner does We know tn,
press of that city believes In law ant
order. but fear they lack pluck" Gu
namesake forgets that the newspaper
cannot run the town if they wanted o
and would not If they could. san An
tonic ia as free from crime as 1t possihl,
can be, considering II is the largest cit.
with n better average than there /
credit tor.
Is ~ article about Galveston and he
methods. the Waco Examiner says
The railroad age. since we have out
let's to New Orleans and ST. Louis, Ia
TO some eXtfhi corrected abuses, but i
all matters ofheayy nycivht shipments
in and ont, the ugly commercial ia, %6s
Of her wharf monopoly remain and 50
they will until some other port is pro-
yidcd, which ia so guarded that n few
men may not sit down and arbitrarily
place eXactious upon commerce which
practically amount to prohibition. The
people Of the interior have been very pa
tiently pouring money into the lap OF
Galveston for many long years. but the
signs OF the times all indicate that very
soon this patience, nj least, will cease to
be virtue, and the mouth ofthc Bra2os,
Sabine Pass or Arkansas will be selected
by popular consent and united effort
Of all the people Of Texas VIII enable
them to procure 30 feet Of water
This would prove poetic justice, anC
constitute II fitting rrbuke to the social
political and commercial greed Of Gal
weston"
"lnRE is slip of the PEN" says tn,
New York sun, lin the letter Of Post
master General Villas to the Pendletol
banquet. The President he says
gave public and authoritative expression
of the purposes Of his Government Nj
Villas should have said his administra
ton The Government is not the Pres
ident, though the administration is. Ac
cording to the constitution, the Govern
ment has three departments, the legisla
tive, the executive and the judicial
. Each Of these is a part Of the Govern
fpaut nurinu bi. farm, of ,ff., 81,