San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-11-20

AGENTS FOR THE LIGHT.
8 G. BECKwITH. ....................,NEW YORK
N. W. AVER Il SON............. PHILADELPHIA
NELSON CHESsMANN.............. ....ST. LOUIS
GEO. p. HOWELL &CO..............NEw YORK
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1886.
The ediUr of the Express will make
note Of the fact that the LIGHT has not
expressed any opinion upon the ward
divisions Of this city by the city cOun-
Gil
AFTER forty years fighting to secure
wster-works Vicksburg has closed con-
tract for the needed water supply. They
will be erected by aprivate corporation.
The fair association project in this
city moves off slOwly-lltOgether too
slowly for the importance of the enter
prise. Was IL another case of too many
cooks spelling the brOthS
CARLIsLE's brilliant Imagination
evolves victory out of what Ia SO gen
orally considered a democrat Waterloo
the elections OF 1886 His democratic
bretheren who are running the big
dailies do not share his halluCinatiOn.
The tariff tinkerers will not be able
to get in much work during the short
session. 1t will be pokey congress,
waiting for its successor TO step into its
shoes.
GERMAN capitalists are too deeply con-
oerned in Russian securities for Bis
marck to take kindly to any strong anti
Russian policy. A war would bankrupt
the car and render Russian securities
comparatively valueless.
The national flags ana many state
colors were hanging at half mast yester-
day. A man from whom all men might
take example lay dead and it was fitting
that men should note the same.
THE generous praise accorded Tilden
by the republican press OF the nation a
few weeks since, contrasts strikingly
with the structures passed upon the dead
ex-president by some Of the democratic
press.
The trial Of the New York Doodle
aldermen has fairly commenced and the
mill will grind intermnaby. When
justice can not be defeated entirely the
next best thing Is to tire the old lady
until her fingers are ready to drop the
scales.
SAN ANTONIO and that section OF which
she is the metropolis can sit under their
umbrellas and speculate about snow
bound trains in the latitude OF st.
Louis IN mid November. The invalids
In our midst are signing for sunlight,
having escaped, the snow banks of their
own homes.
The press of this state are nibbling at
the idea thrown out by the LIGHT some
time since-that 1t would be every way
advantageous for Texas to publish her
own school books. Keep up the agita-
ton. Greater uniformity In the text
books, greater adaptation to our educa-
tional wants, and a saving of fifty per
cent. would be the result.
The United States offices will all be
closed on next Monday from 10 o'clock
a. IN. until p. m, during the burial SER
vices OF Ex-President Arthur. All pub
lie business In the departments on that
day will be suspended, and the build
ings draped In mourning for thirty DAYS.
Naval and military honors will be paid
on the day OF the funeral.
The wOuld-be-wits of the democratic
press are drawing carricatures OF Nor
risoDs successor. that are as far from the
facts as Morrison was from reelection.
1t takes something more than demo-
cratic defamation to down man like
Jehu Baker. His reputation as a man
OF ability, brains, judgment and knowl-
edge Of public affairs antedates this
election contest, although some Texas
editors appear to think that the Judge
has just had his political bornin.
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The cities along the Mississippi river
are clamoring for leyee building, as the
water is phenomlnally low and the op-
portunity for doing substantial work at
minimum cost never was better. AT
Vioksburg the river was the lowest on
last Wednesday ever recorded. 1t ia
quite certain that long period OF levee
building may be looked for and some
ne eded work should be done now. 1t is
high time that the river commission was
getting down 10 business.