San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-04


addressed DAILY LIGHT" San Antonio, Texas
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THIS PAPER PP SS t2g1 CO. On Es S st GSa
Advertising Bureau uOsprIce - wRar, ndycTIsils
Thursday March 4, 1886.
The railroad strike of Fort Worth Is
liable to become general all over this por-
ton ofthe southwest, and the situation is
reported as unchanged except for the
worse.
The rain continues and the stOCkmen
ought to be satisfied with the prospects
for abundant grass and water this spring
and summer. The planters also have
every lnulCdllOu VI bOuHltbho y lClHo III
the coming harvest
TO READ the daily political hash and
rehash in the Texas papers, makes one
almost with he was living in Russia
where they have no elections, and where
the prospects of being hoisted into the
air by Nhlist dynamite are always
fresh.
GENERAL HAZEN, VINO now fills the i'm
portrait position of weather clerk, would
receive the earnest wishes OF everybody
down this way for the success Of his libel
suit against the New York Times, if
he only could make It rain without max
ing mud.
The President is said to be in favor
ofrank taking preference in the army to
Brigadier General, and even higher. in
this he seems to be actuated as much by
Discrimination to be troubled with APP
plieants for vacant Brigadier General
ships as much as by sense Of justice.
Mr.. CLTvELAND's administration went
into power with the oft-repeated asser-
ton to unearth Republican rasCality,
but just now it is very much worried
with the position of Mr.. Garland in the
telephone suits, which does not come up
to the expectation Of those expressions
of reform.
AT any rate, in the event of sewers in
the near future in San Antonio, the
river will not be used. The cleansing
of Commerce street last Saturday by
flushing demonstrated how necessary
the water-works were as property of
the corporation, and it will be difficult
to get those people in the surbubs to
vote on 100000 proposition for some
thing they do not get the benefit of.
Now that Sam Jones has opened up
in Chicago, the announcement will be
made that tits the wickedest city in this
country, and the assertion would be far
from right. But won't st. Louis turn
green with envy, as Sam Jones gave
her that complimentary distinction
when he wrestled with the old moss
back sinners. There is more hope for a
young than for an old sinner.
No illuminated headlines are seen in
the Dallas papers that all danger Of a
smallpox epidemic in Fort Worth are
now over, and that free travel is re-
sumed. Neither are there any long and
heartfelt editorials to be found con-
graduating Fort Worth on the same.
Could not little valuable time and
space be spared by the Dallas editors
devoted to that interesting subject?
JUDGING from the argument of Repre-
sentative Sayers before the Committee
on Rivers and Harbors, in favor of Aran-
sas Pass, 1t looks as If the business is in
good hands. The people OF San Anto-
MO, however, never raised their
voice or turned their hand to assist him,
and one Of the newspapers did all it
could to cripple the usefulness of the
representative Corpus Christi sent to
assist the cause.
In AN article on the subject of the cot
ton crop of 1885, Bradstreet's speaks as
follows regarding Texas: "From this
State the report OF free movement is the
most emphatic Of any State in the
South. The fine picking weather,
coupled with the consequent good
roads, and the extension of crop-moving
facilities, caused the crop to get to mar
ket, 1t is stated. quicker than any crop
yet marketed. The amount left on plan
tations Is the smallest OF any of the
Southern States. The stocks at the
towns are, as will be noted, nearly
double those of last year at the same
time. The crop made this season would
seem to have left The planters in a good