The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-20
MOnday. Abyl 20. 1885,

as second class matter.
MOnddy. AbHI %. 1885,
TnE papers report the prospects for
large and muniiicent crops this summer
all over Texas.
TmE Belton postmaster candidates will
make n scrub race before the people. and
the man who gets the most votes viii he
endorsed by the congressman.
SENATOR NANCY has stated in n private
letter that he will be candidate for re-
election to the Senate, II the people de-
sire him. but that he will not enter into
n scramble for the seat.
GENERAL GEANT continues to improve,
and if the weather permits, his physl'
clans have suggested trip to the Cats
Kills, and say that his chances for re-
covery are one in u thousand.
TuH Waring system Of sewers would
be much better investment for all the
people than to make open sewers out OF
the river and the bitches, and public
opinion is rapidly coming 10 this con
clusiOn.
Tun new towns in Northwest Texas,
Abilene, San Angela, Colorado and other
places, ARE indicting the gamblers, and
many of the fraternity nave left In dis-
gust for New Mexico and other western
points.
TIE generous tributes paid to the late
Captain Richard King by the newspa-
pers of Texas, shows how widely he
was known and how greatly he was adj
mired for his many noble qualities of
hand and heart.
THE filling of the bitches and the river
with sewerage, will prove of much
grenter damage to San Antonio than
the closing of the gambling houses.
san Antonio owes much more to the
river than it does to the sporting fra
ternity.
Is the little difference between Eng
land and Russia, Gladstone seems to
have been done up at every turn. and
so far has gained neither time nor conf
dene equal to that displayed by Russia,
but the opinion in diplomatic circles is
that truce will be patched M at an
early day.
THERE will he convention Of Pro
hibtionists to meet in Dallas on Mon
dav, May II, in order to devise plans tC
get the next Legislature to submit {
proposition to the people to amend the
Constitution, to extend the local option
laws, and consider the feasibility Of or
ganizing regular party in the Stcte.
The Del Rio Dot says: "Shoud tn,
Arkansas Pass railroad be built from Sal
Antonio and should the most adyantag
connected by air lines with each othe
regardless Of expense, we shall heartily
endorse the scheme, and you can checl
on us direct for 5 100000 to whoOp zen
up. That's what some ofour people say.
"
TnE Herald complains that too FEY
business men and merchants of Dalli,
own the property they occupy, whic
fact is detrimental to the interests OF tn
city in this that If any Other city shoul
take boom, and outstrip Dallas, tina
they could pack up and go of, and
urges upon the real estate owners tn
necessity Of other railroad connection
advice, by the way, which could proper
ly be needed by San Antonio capita
lists.
"TnERE Is no one single Influence not
operating in Texas" says the Examine
(which is doing or has done more +,
the development of Central Texas, tina
has the Missouri Pacific railroad.
one wants to realize all of its worth |,
him try to Imagine what the COUNT
would be without it, Indeed TeXa
while she will never consent to sink
the level of mere newer Of wood Al
drawer of water for this or any 9th
corporation, yet will guard faithful
every interest Of the road
TIE Commissioner of Agricultu
comes to the relief of the NOrthwe
Texas cattle men, by issuing oircul
asking them If they have purchase
cattle or bulls from the north Of Il
South Kansas line, and from whom, Al
also If any disease is known to exI
among native cattle, and If so, to VIII
extent. The Commissioner says If t
cattle men unite in sending the inf
nation asked for at once, that 1t Is pc
slble to secure such notifications