San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-22


mOnia in the great cattle market Of the
north and northwest will be received
with alarm by all cattlemen, as destined
seriously to affect the fall trade In live
stock. The researches Of the veterina-
rians are continually bringing to light
new cases, and showing hundreds OF
fresh animals exposed. The extent 10
which the ravages of the disease may
have proceeded can only be known af-
ter sufficient time has elapsed to develop
the disease in the cases Of exposed
herds. In the meantime shipments wi!
naturally be largely restricted, to such
points as are infected. Latest develop
ments show that some Of the largest
feeding and fattening yards in Chicago
have well developed cases of the dread
scourge and If it spreads as it generally
does great loss will be entailed. The
laws of Illinois authorize the slaughter
Of all herds in which the disease has I'M
mistakably made its appearance, and it
is greatly to be hoped that the effective
measures taken to prevent its spread
may soon prove efiectual.
IT Is still an. open question whether
man may not as well die as be scared to
death. Virgins does not seem willing
that Texas people should die naturally
and is therefore trying to scare them to
| death with gruesome reports OF an
earthquake that is to swallow up New
Orleans one week from to-day, gobble
Galveston and Houston In its passage to
San Antonio, shake the very lights out
the Alamo city and play smash general
ly along the thirtieth parallel of lati-
tude The next thing in order will be for
Virgins to send out his agents and sell
anti-earthquake pills 1t will require a
brand new article to meet the situation.
Ordinary quinine is no go in such a
shake as the Canadian meteorological
prophesies.
The prOhiDtionists of Maine are not
without consolation. In one county a
demOoratie-anti-pr sheriff was
elected by their assistance. Great are
Neal Dow and st. John. st. John knows
which side of his bread is buttered. A
clean sum of $4,000 for the campaign
against the republicans of the east, he is
too well known in the west to have any
influence, is not bad for man of st.
Johns calibre. 1t is fat pickings com
pared to what Judas got.
THE developments in the SedgwiCk
matter have been such as to make out q
prima facia case of dsgraceful de-
bauchery, and the burden of the proof is
upon his shoulders to show that the evil
dence is not reliable. The American
counsel. General Porch, lies like a sun
Of-a-gun, or else Sedgwiok does. POrch's
statement is cOrrobOrated by the MexI-
can and border journals, by sixty Amer
lean residents, by the New York
Worlds Washington correspondent, and
this testimony is in line with previous
escapades of the envoy extraordinary. |
His statement, and that of his landlord, |
and the jockey club crowd who made |
him drunk, is all there is on the other |
side. and the clubs denial is only of
partial character at best. The country |
has been disgraced. and Secretary Bay
ard owes it to the nation whose servant
he is to see that no withdrawing is
done now that SedgwicH is again in
Washington. If Grover had taken his
-, ha
caught less fish, but it might have paid
him better.
The decisive vote was reached on Par
nell's land bill Monday, and the humane
attempt TO diminish the horrors Of eviC-
ton in Ireland has failed for the present.
Parnell's bill was compromise measure.
1t divided the hOnors with the land
lords. Denying their right to the soil, it
conceded them the collection of one
half the current rentals, despite the
starving condition Of the tenants, and
only asksd that such renters as paid one
half their rents be protected from evic-
tons. This bill the Churchill govern
ment rejects by vote of 297 TO POS, and
its passage will be the beginning of new
sorrows for Ireland. So soon as there is
the slightest indication that Parnellites
are under foot so soon do the North of
Ireland loyalists commence rioting, and
the Catholics are made to feel the
weight of their fanaticism. There will
never be peace for Ireland until some
equitable measure Of home rule is adopt
ed. In the meantime the peasantry are
impoverished; crops have largely failed;
payment of full rent is in many cases
absolutely impossible; evictions by the
aid Of the English soldiery will be null
tiplled, and blood will flow like water.
Eyictions will be resisted; landlords will
be assassinated; peasants will be i'm
prisoned; starvation will carry of thOus-
ands, and the condition of the whole
people become more and more hopeless,
until a general uprising will follow.
This must be the end unless the British
parliament interposes some measures of
relief.
PIDCoCK, the old democratic congress
man from the Fourth congressional dis
trict of New Jersey is in hot water. The
old mossback secured his own renomina-
ton by the hardest, and now the fight